Great article! Mother's milk is good for the baby, yes, but not if it comes from a stressed and exhausted mother, who feels guilty all the time. It shouldn't be a moral imperative.
Thank you for writing that article. The bit that really gets me even now is that midwives aren’t allowed to even tell you about combi feeding in the UK for fear that it’s promoting formula feeding. It’s completely ridiculous. I strongly believe that if I’d been more informed about combi feeding (and not made to feel like a monster for topping up with formula) for both my kids, I could’ve avoided post-partum depression. If mums are completely exhausted from triple feeding then they’re never gonna produce enough milk anyway!! Makes my blood boil how vulnerable women are denied vital information about their OWN bodies and babies!
Yes. With you totally. Breast feeding failure, particularly when we are well informed and completely willing, is an excruciating and profound agony which our culture and organizations like NCT and LLL often only exacerbates. Bless you for finding your way to peace through nourishing your daughter with the food you prepare now.
Thank you so much for writing and sharing this. It's 41 years since my own experience of traumatic delivery, and I find it horrifying that things haven't improved since then.
Thank you so much for sharing this story. I don't know you, it feels weird to write that here but it's nice to see other people went through something similar like me. I also had a difficult delivery, already felt like a failure because I couldn't deliver without the epidural, baby then sent to NICU and my milk never came in. I never encountered someone else to whom this happened as well and never at the hospital did they recognise my issue with it. Similarly to you, healing came through weaning and being able to cook his meals myself. Thank you again.
Great article! Mother's milk is good for the baby, yes, but not if it comes from a stressed and exhausted mother, who feels guilty all the time. It shouldn't be a moral imperative.
Thank you for writing that article. The bit that really gets me even now is that midwives aren’t allowed to even tell you about combi feeding in the UK for fear that it’s promoting formula feeding. It’s completely ridiculous. I strongly believe that if I’d been more informed about combi feeding (and not made to feel like a monster for topping up with formula) for both my kids, I could’ve avoided post-partum depression. If mums are completely exhausted from triple feeding then they’re never gonna produce enough milk anyway!! Makes my blood boil how vulnerable women are denied vital information about their OWN bodies and babies!
Yes. With you totally. Breast feeding failure, particularly when we are well informed and completely willing, is an excruciating and profound agony which our culture and organizations like NCT and LLL often only exacerbates. Bless you for finding your way to peace through nourishing your daughter with the food you prepare now.
Thank you so much for writing and sharing this. It's 41 years since my own experience of traumatic delivery, and I find it horrifying that things haven't improved since then.
Thank you so much for sharing this story. I don't know you, it feels weird to write that here but it's nice to see other people went through something similar like me. I also had a difficult delivery, already felt like a failure because I couldn't deliver without the epidural, baby then sent to NICU and my milk never came in. I never encountered someone else to whom this happened as well and never at the hospital did they recognise my issue with it. Similarly to you, healing came through weaning and being able to cook his meals myself. Thank you again.