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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I pumped and feed exclusively for 6 months. Tried for the first 2 months to get a latch. At 8 months I eventually started adding formula.  Would I do it again, or recommend someone else do it - NO.

At the time it seemed a very personal and important thing to me. To be honest I would have despised anyone who tried to convince me to do anything different than what I was doing. Thinking hormones, exhaustion and first time Mom issues messed up my perspective. I was so focused on trying to do everything right, I missed some of the joy of the early months. [/quote]

I agree with a lot of this.  Except that I like to think I would have welcomed my husband talking a little sense into me.  Looking back on it, being stressed and exhausted, not being able to respond to my baby’s cues, and being just a little bit angry that he wanted more than I could supply was certainly worse for him than just giving him formula.

I have five children now, and they were all breastfed for varying amounts of time depending on the difficulty.  I would never make the mistake of missing a child’s infancy because I was so focused on myself and what I wanted again.

I hope that you find the right words to say to your wife so that she really is doing what she wants to do, and not what someone else (lactation consultant, friend, mom, DCUM) told her to do.  
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