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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like the mom is a high strung person who had a difficult delivery. The best thing would be for her to chill out, [b]formula feed[/b],  nd get some sleep. But in place of that she is trying to exert control by obsessing over visitor rules. Not that anything she put in there is by itself unreasonable, but put together it just radiates anxiety. Op just play along for now and do what you can to support the family. Sounds like she is having a tough time.[/quote]

what?  maybe BF will be easy, calming for her and baby, and a source of peace and comfort for them both?  are you projecting?[/quote]

Of course she is. [/quote]

Yes, because how ridiculous that someone suggest formula feeding can be a godsend for mothers suffering from ppd who need rest desperately ... it is rigid "boob at all costs" thinking that has sent many a ftm into the kind of spiral that the sil may be entering.[/quote]

It is not ridiculous to suggest that formula feeding may help. It is ridiculous to assert, as you did, based on the little information we have here, that "The best thing would be for her to ... formula feed[.]"[/quote]

Seriously, at least give the woman a chance to decide this for herself.  Bfing didn't come easy to me, I ended up pumping and being exhausted from it.  Switching to formula was such a relief for me.  But I totally understand a new mom wanting to at least have the chance to TRY bfing and see if it works for her and her baby.  That 1st week everything is so new, you have no idea what will and will not work.

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