have had to make a hard decision

Oh Kat....big

I can imagine that it is hard for you right now, but you are only doing this in the best interest of your baby. Happy baby = Happy mum!!!

Please dont feel like you are doing some thing wrong, you are a great mum and continue to be a great mum!!

Hey, good on you to do what is right. I had a similar situation with my bub. Harvie was 8 weeks when I fully stopped. I tried pumping for a while but that hurt more. He took to a bottle straight away. He was happier and so was I. If or when we have another I will try to bf again and see where that goes. You have to do what is right for you. No bub has ever suffered from being fed formula. Big hugs to you.

P.S. I still feel pangs of guilt when I see a mum bf her baby and wish I could have done it longer, but then I look at him and see that he is juuuust fine.

I dried up almost straight away, you may have to pump out a bit for the first few days, but it will absorb into your body in no time I am sure. I hope that the midwife doesn't make you feel guilty. I had great support from mine. She told me that it wasn't for everyone. Good luck.

you gave it a shot - now time to move onto something else.

have a chocolate splurge and feel better about it all. just imagine you can drink now, and wear bras that dont undo for the cups, and give bubs to other people for longer cause they can do the feeding too now.

sounds like you have made the right choice for u and ur baby. The feeling bad thing does go away I cried for 2 days after putting Alan on the bottle, but I know it was the best choice at the time. As far a drying up goes I did the same as Becca and that worked well for me too

Good on ya Kaz! I had to do the same thing and felt so guilty. especially if you watch the news and see all that stuff on the tv! But I dealt with it, especially realising how much happier and contented taine was.

I feel so much better now, my midwife is really supportive and now its onwards and upwards.

So hopefully when she gets weighed on monday she would have put on heaps of weight.

Thankyou so much everyone for all your support.

Good onya Kazzle! I went through the same thing last year with Andrew - and I went through a whole mourning cycle for not being able to breastfeed him (after I breastfed Sean perfectly fine I couldn't work out what was wrong with me!). Looking back almost a year on, it was the best decision. Andrew is healthy, a good eater, a great sleeper and a happy wee chappy. There is sooooo much pressure on women to breastfeed these days that when something goes wrong and we can't there is a whole guilt stigma - don't buy into it!!!
Glad to hear that your midwife is being supporting and that Rhiannon is doing well.
Oh - and the best thing about the bottle was that Andrew ended up bonding so well with his dad who could share the feeding responsibility (including the late nights)

I used cabbage leaves and it only took a couple of days before any pain went away but I didnt express at all cos I didnt want to produce anymore.
well done for making the decision even though it is hard. At least you feel bad for the right reasons, you would feel even worse if your baby wasnt getting fed.
Did you find a suitable formula?

when i was in hospital and kobe was in nicu i had an argument with one of the nurses about whether I was going to b/f or f/f and i ended up storming out in tears but one of the doctors and I had a good talk and she said there is nothing wrong with f/f baby and that it doesnt harm them at all. plus my sister and BIL who are a nurse and surgeon formula feed all thier children and he is one of those brainy research types that would have looked into every ingrediant in formula to make sure it was safe. I dont see it as right or wrong, its just an alternative.