Comments eating me up...
We live far away from family, so Skype is our main contact. Since our little one arrived 3 weeks ago we haven’t had a lot of time to Skype for long periods. Last night my little one had just had 3 back to back feeds and was super sleepy so I made the most of the time and Skyped my family. 5 min in to the call the baby wanted another feed - I should have known she was well into her cluster feed mood at that point. I signed off and signed back on again after her 4th feed. Unfortunately during the second call our little one started getting very squirmy, I burped her whilst on call but she still got a bit sick, she immediately started rooting for my boob again. My mother said what I was doing looked cruel and that I should be feeding her!! My sister also mentioned that I was being too rough whilst holding her and burping her, my mother shut my sister down saying she looked happy and wasn’t crying but their 20min glimpse into our routine has caused judgement on me as a mother. I’m already super emotional, exhausted and have the baby blues, and their comments are still eating me up 😔. They are visiting this weekend and I dread to think what other comments they’ll make.
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