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I think when he started growing and growing and I realized how awesome it was it all came from me! We had our moments of course, those long marathon evening sessions where you can't imagine nursing any min longer.

With my first baby it took close to ten weeks to really get into it (ties, thrush, bad latch) but I do still remember the day when she was about six weeks old that I got the whole oxytocin "rush" of love while feeding and decided it was worth it! With my second baby it was instant love but he was a much better feeder / latcher so we didn't really have any issues.

It's ok to not love it but in my experience, it does get better as baby gets older and bigger.

I never loved it. That's exactly why I quit so early. I wanted to enjoy my baby. For me personally, I've noticed friends who have similar personalities to mine didn't like it either.

I remember wishing I liked it, but I never did. I probably didn't give it enough time but that's also my personality. If I don't like something, I fix it.

The first time around, i stopped being miserable around 6 weeks (when the toe curling pain with each latch got better) and probably started liking it after another month or so. Once it gets good, it was so good and so easy and I nursed until 21 months (day weaned at 13 months).

Now with LO2, he won't latch and I would totally trade the exclusive pumping and bottle feeding we are doing to try to manage weight gain for toe curling pain again, but LO can't latch. This is working for now but I am not sure how sustainable it is.

4 months.

Six weeks for my first. We had a lot of issues in the beginning.
My second i liked from the third week. She is a much more efficient nurser.

It does get better. Hang in there.

6-8 weeks once I finally felt confident that I knew what I was doing. We had a lot of headaches (needed a shield, food intolerances out the wazoo, marathon nursing sessions) but there were things I loved from the beginning. I loved knowing the health benefits I was providing her, I loved being the only one who could provide her with food and that special bond/comfort, so I tried to focus on those things during the bad days.

It stopped being toe curling painful around 6 weeks. I can't remember when I started actually loving it. I loved parts of it right away- holding her warm little body against me, the milk drunk look of pure bliss when she would pull off... But there were lots of ups and downs. I was committed to trying hard and we never had any serious obstacles that made me really think about stopping early, but it was still challenging.

But I did really love it within a few months and she nursed until almost 20 months.
It definitely gets better- 6 weeks is only when it starts getting bearable it seems.

I feel like 8 weeks it got easier in the sense I was used to it. But I never liked it. I felt like a milk cow, hated pumping, and hated all the pressure to feed her was on me. I startered to wean her at 6 months and was a much happier Mommy.

I would say it was 4 months before I really started enjoying it and didn't have to think about it a lot. My friend once told me "don't quit on your worst day" and that's what got me through the first few months!!

@Ash: With my first I was still hating it and having a really hard time over all so I stopped at 8 weeks. Formula was the right choice for us and I don't have any regrets.

With my second things got way better after the 6 week growth spurt. After that it sort of gradually got better and better. At 8 months I really truly enjoy it (and have for several months now).

Six weeks is the worst though. *hugs*

This post really helped me at 6 weeks: http://nurshable.com/2012/05/27/six-week-growth-spurt/

This post was really helpful! I told a friend today that I was so over it (not serious just annoyed) and wondered if the benefits really outweighed the effort. I feel like this is harder than unmedicated labor!!

@MrsF: LO is 6 weeks, and I totally needed to read that.

@Ash: how long did you nurse C before the allergy issues??

I never particularly loved it but it got effortless around 7/8 weeks.

Honestly, I felt better about breastfeeding when we decided it was not going to be the only way we fed our son. We introduced 1 bottle of formula a day at around a month old - (DH took the 10pm formula feeding so I could pump and go to bed earlier and catch some sleep before DS' MOTN wake ups). The milk I pumped before bed would be DS' morning bottle, which DH also gave him. It allowed me to actually enjoy nursing when we did it, although I switched to EPing other than comfort nursing around 4 months old because I had horribly uneven supply between the two boobs, reflux, colic, weight gain, and other issues that made nursing a lot more work than it was worth to me. We still nursed for comfort until about 6 months when he started chomping down on me and that was that. I am very happy with the way things turned out.

With LO1 it didn't become pain free until he was about 3.5 months and I didn't really enjoy it until he was about 5 months.

With LO2, it was easy peasy from day 1, so I enjoyed it a lot more!