Those are the sacrifices that you make as a mother. Yes, for a while your body is not your own and it can be draining, but you just learn to cope. I breast fed both of my 2 while suffering with anaemia and keeping up an exercise regime and yes, it was hard, but it is doable and you need to push past the tiredness because it’s what’s best for your baby. Oh, and in addition to what I’ve already mentioned hubby and I chose to abstain for the most part because I seem to have this thing where when breast feeding I have absolutely no sex drive or stimulation and so it was actually hurting me. I wouldn’t change any of it though.

As long as bub is fed and is healthy and happy and has someone how cares and loves them, that’s all that matters.

Not every mother can breastfeed! It doesn’t mean you’re a bad mother because you didn’t breastfeed! A happy baby makes a happy mum & rest of family. Si I salute to ALL MOTHERS breastfeeding or bottle feeding, enjoy your babies as they grow up too quickly. I breastfed our daughters and they in turn breastfed their children.

I love Maddi’s honesty. I was unable to breastfeed and that carried it’s own stigma. Maybe if more people were as honest as Maddi, there would be less guilt, less trying to be a perfect that doesn’t exist. It’s all about what’s right for you.

Good for her. We are all different. I always say i was too lazy to bottle feed my kids. I really couldnt have coped with mixing formula and cleaning bottles, etc. Either way it was going to be me that did everything and I would have still been the one getting up during the night. My husband was hopeless.

I breast fed one baby & bottle fed another. I was told my a doctor who had a brain that said “breast is best but follow with a bottle”. It was the best advice I could have been given. With my first I had heaps of milk that had no nutrition & was told by a ‘lactation expert’ that it was rubbish, he ended up on a bottle. When I switched him to a bottle & the other was totally bottle fed, at least I knew how much they were getting. Result happy thriving baby & happy mum

Good on Maddi for speaking out,it isn’t for every-one!

Breastfeeding isn’t for everyone indeed !

I never breast fed both my kids and both are healthy adults now and i have never regretted bottle feeding its really what you want as a mother and what your happy with

breast feeding is not for everyone, bub needs a full belly and lots of cuddles

Super confused about why she couldn’t go to the gym while breastfeeding ??

I am so sick of hearing “breast is best”. FED is best !!! Yes I have breast fed, Yes I have bottle fed. I have five adult sons and if I posted a photo of them I bet you couldn’t pick which ones were fed what way. There are lots of good reasons to breast feed, and just as many good reasons to bottle feed. Can’t we all just take up the slogan “FED IS BEST” ?

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  • • june11 replied
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  Exactly FED IS BEST. Just becuase a Mother appears to have plenty of breastmilk doesn’t mean it has any or enough nourishment in it. I know of 2 Mums whose babies wouldn’t settle and weren’t gaining weight. Both Mother’s milk were tested and found to be lacking nourishment. The Mums weren’t known to each other and it’s highly unlikely they had the same doctors.
  A neighbour of mine successfully breastfed her baby for a few months. A couple of months later she told me she now realised that she felt much stronger and healthier in general after she stopped breastfeeding.