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@jhd:
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@jhd: Hugs, lady. Yes, it really will be okay. Despite the occasional pangs of jealousy or sadness like today, formula has been amazing for us. Its convenient, other people can help feed, it enabled us to get into a routine sooner and DD (who was less than 6lb at birth) has thrived on it. By the way, 6oz a day is amazing! Your LO is lucky to have such a wonderful mother!
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My mom still makes comments about wishing she hadn't had to use formula.. And I'm the youngest at 26! Makes me so sad- I'd like to think we are all pretty decent people and I had no idea I was FF until I got pregnant myseld and asked. So, no advice, just hope that anyone reading doesn't hold on the regret as long as my mom has
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@scg00387: Woah, 26 years?? I really hope Im over it by then!!!
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@Cherrybee: yes! And the "decent" bit was tongue in cheek- formula is a life saving, modern invention that I have no qualms saying I support
and I don't want to dismiss anyone's feelings - simply that I genuinely hope the guilt fades!
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7 months pp and not over it. I don't feel guilty every time I make a bottle anymore, but I still contemplate all the "what if I had done X, Y and Z, would it have worked then" pretty regularly. It's kind of weird that I am still focused on it because breastfeeding wasn't something that was super important to me until I couldn't do it anymore.
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@Cherrybee: If it makes you feel any better, my exclusively BF to six months baby is not cuddly either. Only in the last couple weeks has she even started laying her head on my shoulder while being held, and I actually think it's just an attempt be extra cute to manipulate me into not giving her crap for getting into EVERYTHING, rather than any expression of actually liking me. And I also think it's very strange to post repeatedly about BFing on FB.
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Oh I totally hear you. At 10 months PP I *cried* promptly after leaving a work meeting where I had to interact with the breastfeeding goddess. She's the local organizer of the La Leche League, and while I was recounting some of my stresses over getting my daughter to eat, she parroted the "food before one is just for fun" rule. I was so stupidly hurt. All I could think was that all is well and good when you have milk just flowing freely out of your body. Ugh. ...and I had thought I was completely at peace with our formula feeding routine. I guess I'll just always carry my sadness over my inability to breastfeed.
and I don't want to dismiss anyone's feelings - simply that I genuinely hope the guilt fades!
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