I don’t think breastfeeding will be for me

Nicole • 27 ❤️ Milwaukee born and raised 🐄🧀🍻

Is it ok to not want to breastfeed? I have some reasons why but I’m not 100% against trying either. So my nipples are super sensitive. Like not in a sexual way but in a painful way. They can only be touched when I’m in certain moods. Also I’m on medication that is not safe for breastfeeding (mood stabilizing antipsychotics) and not taking them would do a lot of harm. Also the cluster feedings scare me. I know babies make sleep hard and that comes with the territory but I’ve heard that cluster feeding makes that worse. When I’m tired I’m not a nice person to be around and I have been known to hurt myself past a certain threshold. Not on purpose but like I’m clumsy. So I feel like prolonged cluster feeding would make things worse. I know so many people look down on women who choose it’s not for them but does that really make me a bad future mom for weighing out the pros and cons? I’ve thrown around the idea of breastfeeding for the first couple weeks so they get the benefits but is that enough? I was formula fed and have no issues. Just looking for opinions I guess. And if anyone says if I can’t be tired I shouldn’t have kids don’t bother. I understand I’ll be tired but I don’t want to make it any worse if that makes any sense.

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