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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I normally would be very pro your body, your choice. But with covid, would you ever forgive yourself if you stopped breastfeeding and your baby got covid? If you are okay with it, stop breast feeding. Also talk to your doctor. Your baby might be more in danger of measles from antivaxxers.[/quote]

Your baby can get COVID even if you breastfeed. Your baby can get COVID even if you get vaccinated while pregnant. What was written above is not correct. If you're child gets COVID it's probably going to be caused by a breakthrough infection from you getting COVID, so focus your attention on being safe (whatever that means to you) over the next few months.

Also, speak to YOUR doctor about YOUR mental health and speak to your child's doctor about what would be best for them. I would definitely do the latter with your husband, because hopefully hearing from a third party will calm him down as others having said. If your baby is a premie there may be more of a benefit to you breastfeeding and there is definitely a benefit to breastfeeding in the first few months, but it doesn't need to be all or nothing. You can combo feed and do a mix of formula and breastmilk. You don't need to do everything. Also, I'm sure that most doctors would say that the benefit of breastfeeding is negated if you are experiencing PPD/PPA as a result of breastfeeding and can't properly bond with your child during that time. My SIL killed herself trying to breastfeed and I think it definitely exacerbated her PPD/PPA. Was it worth it? I have no idea, but from the outside looking in it looked like she was going through hell and I doubt that benefitted her child.

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