Study: Breast Feeding No Better Than Bottle Feeding For Kids’ Health

[Crunchy Frog]

56. It was a spinal.

I was a doula for a woman who had twins via c-section with exactly the same anesthetic and in the same hospital. They had her breastfeeding both babies within the hour. They as much as admitted to me later on that the reason for the delay was that I got lost in the shuffle and they simply forgot about me.

And I'm not thinking of myself in terms of "failure". Only my ability to build up a decent milk supply, which certainly was a failure. I don't feel any "guilt" or "failure" about my breastfeeding difficulties (and I did still partially breastfeed for around 6 months) but I do feel a sense of loss and regret, and will not allow anyone to tell me how I "should" feel about it.