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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There needs to be a PSA that it's not helpful to hold someone's newborn. That newborn and that mom want to be together. What people need to offer is to clean or cook only. Keep your grubby mitts off my baby.[/quote]

Cool story.  If you need a maid, hire one.[/quote]
I don’t expect anyone to cook and I personally don’t want anyone to clean my house. But holding a newborn isn’t helping. If you want to hold my baby don’t act like you’re helping. You are making life harder for me which is fine but just own it. [/quote]

I felt the same. I remember that people wanted to hold my baby when she was happy and then pass her off at the first sign of a cry. Which all sounds logical, but after weeks of that, I was really in a deep depression. I never got to hold my baby when she was happy and it was affecting me mentally. Mom's need to be able to hold happy babies too! Otherwise it's just complete drudgery of breastfeeding, laundry, cooking and chores. And there was also a lot of criticism of her crying in that "maybe I wasn't making enough milk" or something was wrong with my milk and I should just use formula. [/quote]

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