Extreme Emotions about BF’ing?
Hello to anyone willing to read my rant. My second (9 weeks) is being EBF. My first child, my daughter, could not latch and I quit BF’ing at 6 weeks. I am basically at wits end most days. Between cluster feeding, and my son going to sleep at midnight every night, with wake ups for feeds every 2.5-3 hours maximum, and of course waking up at 7 for with a toddler, and am considering quitting BF’ing. While breastfeeding, I am having very extreme emotions one way or the other that I’m sure are hormonal. I go from thinking BF’ing is the most incredible journey ever, to literally wanting to throat punch someone (don’t worry, everyone is safe, baby in crib). Is anyone else having these very extreme viewpoints of BF’ing literally WHILE BF’ing? I think because my first was also a poor sleeper, but because we did formula, the absolute crap sleep was split between myself and my husband so I’d get some sleep. It’s not an option for husband to ‘take a night’ or even give me a few hours, because our son literally HATES not having my boobs. He will take bottles during the day (when my husband would be at work) but you better not keep boobs from him at night or he screams bloody murder for hours. It seems like so much extra stress, and I feel resentful of my sweet angel baby sometimes because my body just can’t cope with the no sleep, and being drained of milk like a cow constantly!
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