Supplementing

I feel horrible. My baby will be a week old tomorrow and we just left the hospital Friday. My pediatrician told me on Thursday that I would have to supplement with formula to help with his jaundice. I was a little upset at first because I wanted to EBF, but obviously I want to do whatever is best for my little guy. So we’ve been supplementing since then, and he’s been doing good. He’s still latching good, and as soon as his jaundice is all taken care of we will be back to just breastfeeding.

But. My sister in law came over and was talking about how we were supplementing. She made me feel like absolute shit. She EBF her son, who is now 3 and still only ever breastfeeds. The poor kid is extremely underweight, but she makes me feel like a bad mother for doing what is best for my son? I know it’s none of her business, and that we are just trying to help my man, but it still feels like crap to be looked down at like that as a FTM