![]() I felt bad when I gave up on the BF, but with no production, and the impact triple feeding was having on my mental health with no sleep, giving it up allowed us to quickly fall into the day/night shift pattern where I could be away from kiddo for longer periods to sleep. I've so much respect for anyone doing this on their own, I couldn't even comprehend 24/7 with a newborn without one other person there to take over. Kept seeing people in the house, leering over me, or the walls melting, and almost brained myself trying to get out of bed once as I was so uncoordinated I couldn't get my limbs to work. By week 5-6 we went purely to formula as my tits were useless and the lack of sleep was getting dangerous. Breastfeeding failed for me, just couldn't cope with the hourly feeding with pumping, attempting to BF and formula feeding. We were luck he had 2 months off work to allow this to happen. I'd cover the night shift, then my husband would do the day shift so we'd both get more solid sleep. We ended up for the first few months doing shifts with kiddo. Couldn't sleep when baby slept as, even though I was exhausted and literally hallucinating with lack of sleep with triple feeding, it wasn't long enough for me to fall asleep. ![]() I need 6 hours minimum otherwise I'm foggy headed and a mess. I've never been one for napping pre baby, it screws me up for the rest of the day.
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