Who here only does formula.. I failed at breastfeeding.. And I feel horrible

aj was born with low blood sugar and breastmilk alone wasn't enough to bring his levels up. he preferred the bottle nipple and I couldn't afford a breast pump

@lunabuena, I had trouble with them latching as well. I had to use nipple shields to help n those made me raw, I was all ripped open, I still have slight scars from it. but I couldn't keep up, even with fenugreek and pumping I still just couldn't do it and again it breaks my heart even to this day...

You shouldn't feel bad. if you want to continue breast feeding there's alot you can do. it's time consuming at first but it's totally up to you. I'm an advocate for a happy well fed baby, if fomular is doing it for you then you shouldn't feel bad.

@bitty_mommy15, yeah wic does. I had one that checked on me but it's been hard for me to come in cause my husband works 3rd and we had a lot of doctor visits in the morning when she was a week old cause of jaundice. I was able to make a full bottle of breastmilk for her she even latched. But I was breastfeeding her then if she was still hungry a bottle of formula. And Then I wasn't catching up and now I gotta do formula. She does good with it. I just miss the times I made milk for her. Cause they say it's better for her. At least I gave her the firsts drops of my milk apparently that's really good for babies.

I formula feed. she has to drink special formula because the regular formula gave her problems and soy wouldnt keep her full. she was downing a 5 ounce every hour. talk about no sleep. but my family had way too many issues with breastfeeding that I was scared to try. now I regret it, but it makes it worse when WIC and other moms rub it in and are all "oh you formula feed? breastmilk is way better. but some moms take the easy way out." :/ formula isnt necessarily easy. its expensive and you have to count ounces as well as make sure the formula works for your baby.

I do

@ajmommy, yeah totally know how u feel. My bestfriend breastfeeding n she's doing better then I did. I did for 2 months. And then Luna started to get fussy.

Yeah mine did that but healed. I went pass all that it did hurt a lot lol

I was only able to breastfeed for like 2 days. my brothers wife always rubs it in that she breastfeeds their son and it just kills me. I really wish I was able to

I've been only formula since day 2. She wouldn't latch.😢 made me so sad. But come to find out the poor thing has a lactose intolerance and is on hypoallergenic formula now.

@shortizzie,

@shot tizzie, what made u stop?

@twinmamma2015,

Luna will be 3 months I went pass the pain just didn't produce enough to catch up with her. Now I just produce one drop.

I tried to breastfeed but it was to hard and my boys are 3 months and it still hurts my feelings that I couldn't breastfeed them 😢😢