In a pickle

Olivia

Does anyone else want to give up because you just don’t produce enough so you have to supplement with formula anyway? Pumping/breastfeeding is hard work and I’m not producing enough to keep up with baby so I have to top her off with formula. Honestly I just want to throw in the towel but my husband doesn’t want me to. Easy for him to say though because he isn’t the one doing all the work. I’m a stay at home mom and I homeschool my little brother who has behavior issues...so on top of that I’m trying to pump but I don’t pump enough to make a bottle so I have to get her formula after the breastmilk. It’s so frustrating because I’m putting in all the work yet I still have to give her formula so why bother. It’s so stressful to try to keep up and I can’t pump as often as I should because first off I have to try to get school work in then I have to make sure baby is content long enough for me to be able to pump (which isn’t very often) I sware she knows when I need to pump because every time I get situated and turn my pump on she wakes up! Sometimes she will go back to sleep but other times I have to stop pumping. I’m also annoyed because she seems to do better with my husband than me. She doesn’t give him trouble to burp, doesn’t spit up etc...when I try to burp her she cries and cries until I give her back the bottle. Then she spits up a ton with me. The other night she burped so good for me, yet she still spit up a ton! Then I try to get her settled and I always end up putting her in her swing or something because she isn’t comfortable with me. But my husband can get her settled in a heartbeat, I don’t understands. I’m just stressed about a lot of things and I don’t know what to do