How do you do this longterm?
Baby is 15 days old and I’ve not been able to get her to latch this entire time. I’ve been working closely with lactation consultants and she was found to have an anterior tongue tie that was removed at 9 days old. Still no luck latching and I’ve been exclusively pumping since. I cry everyday about not being able to breast feed like I always imagined and with frustration at the logistics of EP- I struggle caring for my child when I have to pump and it makes me have to have my husband do the print of child care- which is not sustainable especially when he goes back to work in a few weeks. I try to feed her while pumping, but she takes a good amount of effort and encouragement to take a bottle.
I’m grateful that I produce enough breast milk to feed my baby, but I don’t know if I can continue to EP. I am thinking more and more about switching to formula, but I don’t know how I could get past the guilt of not giving her breast milk when I can physically do it.
Any advice on how I can make EP work would be so helpful.