Mamas who struggled with breastfeeding, when did you realize that it was time to just move on? The last couple of weeks (bb is a month) have been so treacherous feeding wise. I have an abundance of milk that causes so many issues with a heavy letdown that chokes and makes my baby so gassy and uncomfortable so I switched to pumping and honestly I don’t know if I have it in me to even do that. I have a fussy baby right now and I constantly question everything about my milk. Is the dairy I had making her fussy. do I have a hind milk/fore milk imbalance. Am I pumping long enough??? God all I do is pump and feed and do math in my head on how long it all keeps for. I just constantly doubt myself and feel like maybe it’s making me and baby miserable. It’s so hard because I have literally no shortage of milk that makes it hard to stop 😭😭

Update: I am shocked at the amount of comments Of support this post is getting even though it’s almost 5 months old.

What I didn’t know at the time of this post is that my baby had a high palette Which made breast-feeding and latching to the bottles we had near impossible and I also was unknowingly struggling with PPD & PPA. The lactation consultant which we had access to was honestly not very good. I wish that she had been more helpful for us but that’s a reality of a small town. Ultimately for my mental health we did stop breast-feeding and pumping and once we found a bottle my daughter could latch to along with a great formula she has grown into a healthy and happy little girl.

I look back on this post and recognize that it was my absolute lowest point and while it makes me sad that we had to go through that on top of a Trumatic birth I’m happy to say that now mom and baby are doing so well in fact I could say we’re thriving❤️