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It does depend on your baby, but I feel the first few months are in general very tough.

One think I did from the beginning though that helped was letting my husband take the 11 p.m. feeding. I went to bed around 9:30 or 10 then the baby was normally good till at least 1, sometimes 2, even from the earliest days. I used formula typically for that feed, and pumped right before going to bed while watching TV or listening to a book on tape. This got the baby used to bottle and formula, and I wasn't uncomfortable. And I was getting solid 4 hour blocks of sleep, even for the beginning.

Letting yourself off the hook for doing everything perfectly was a big help -- but it's very hard to do, I've found. For me, giving up breastfeeding and pumping instead was a huge turnaround in enjoying my son. I realized that lousy breastfeeding was tainting everything; I wasn't bonding with my child at all. I switched to pumping, and we were both much happier. My son never got the latch right, and was either gagging on too much milk or not getting enough, [/quote]

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