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[quote=Anonymous]my first baby had every single problem there can be--tongue tie, lip tie, reflux to the point where he kept nothing down, leading to horrible weight problems so had to feed every 90 mins, couldn't transfer well so my production was only 24 oz/day if I was lucky, taking an insane amount of weirdo supplements and drinking tea to try to stimulate more milk, etc. etc. etc. and the breastfeeding crazy train compelled me to feed him, pump to empty my breasts, then bottle feed it to him. Eventually after months of this we eventually transferred over to mostly formula but not before I drove myself and my husband insane for months. It was not worth it whatsoever.

I am currently breastfeeding my second son, 3 weeks old. He is the complete opposite baby with the complete opposite experience. I still hate it and think I will quit either when I can no longer produce enough to satiate him or ~3 months, whichever happens first. Why am I doing it at all? because it seems to be working and it's free, basically. But the important takeaway here is that if someone has only had a baby like my second son, they have absolutely no idea what it's like to have a baby like my first son, and so they will drone on and on about LCs and power pumping and skin to skin weekends etc. etc. etc. but they just will never, ever, ever get it, and it will only make you feel more and more terrible about it all because it's not working. But formula works just fine, dont let anyone convince you otherwise. [/quote]

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