"At my support group, the lactation consultant was nice, but really insistent that I keep up the breastfeeding. She even tried to get me to wear a strange harness with tubes on it. The bottle of formula would be suspended from the harness and flows through tubes attached to my nipples. That way my son would think all the milk he was getting was coming from my breasts. I drew the line there. I did not, however, stop the dual feedings. He was eating every 2-3 hours, and my feedings were lasting 45 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes. Some days I only got a 45 minute break before doing it all over again. At night, I’d get about two hours sleep at a time. I was miserable, but every time I thought of giving up and just giving him a bottle, I was made to feel like a bad mother."
~ Beetqueen
https://beetqueen.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/breastfeeding-nazis-can-make-a-new-mom-cry/
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