I gave up my 10c bras but I bought hot milk ones instead so I survived. Other than that I didn't have to give anything up.
I think that breastfeeding works best when a mother doesn't feel like she has to martyr herself to it.

I think that maybe there are things that you might have to give up to breastfeed but they are the kind of things that you gain by giving up - excessive drinking, heavy smoking, partying every night, a crack habit.... that kind of stuff. If you give them up to breastfeed then your health can only benefit.
and also from TRAVELLER
I gave up lots to breastfeed my babies. I gave up being selfish, thinking only about myself. I gave up overindulging in alcohol and fatty foods with no thought to my health. I gave up sleeping peacefully every night. However I don't think I could have avoided giving up any of these things by not breastfeeding, it was a natural extension of being pregnant for me. IMHO motherhood requires a lot of sacrifice no matter how you parent.

i agree with these two posts.

and the bit about not being a matryr. i had a breakthrough, at a time when i started to resent feeding my baby, purely by changing my words. i made a headspace change from "feeding on demand" - which i resented - to "feeding by request", which instead made me feel needed by my child.

I think, i KNOW my child had a very rough entry to this world, due to a traumatic labour event - we did not bond well. i actually perceive our breastfeeding relationship, as something we needed, to heal each other, to learn to "be" with each other. All those times of sitting on the sofa, feeding. It has taught me patience and to be "in the moment", when normally, i would resent that time on the sofa. So i see it, in retrospect, as a lesson i needed to be taught. I also see our extended bf-ing as another lesson. We DID need longer to bond than other mothers/children do. It was what was right for us.

ANd yes, my alcohol intake and ability to go out at night has reflected this, but i don't mind, and i made sure i didn't leave my child with anyone, until i was ready to do that. so it was my choice.

i can see many benefits from bf-ing (i have a bad back, and i KNOW if i had had to carry formula around in the nappy bag, i would have suffered from the extra weight). I think if i had NOT gone to ABA meetings when pregnant, i would have had the expectation, that bf-ing would all be easy, and i might have buckled at first medical hassle e.g mastitis, but because i HAD gone to ABA meetings, i had an expectation of "hiccups" along the way, and knowing where to ask for help, i think helped me troubleshoot any medical issues that DID come up. pre-warning was very helpful to me.

everyone's experience is different. i can only base my thoughts, on what i experienced. but i learnt so much from reading about other people's experiences of bf0ing. (and still do).

Lots about parenting is about putting another person first, this is no different.