I didn't have enough milk with DD#1. She cried constantly and wanted to be fed for an hour, only to want another feed half an hour later (day and night). I tried expressing and what took an hour to express, she drank in 10 minutes. I gave up after two weeks as I wasn't coping well and she wasn't putting on weight. Once I started FF, she was so much happier - as was I! My milk was gone within 2 days.

With DD#2 My colostrum levels weren't high enough for my hungry greedy guts, so I had to offer the bottle twice in the first wo days. After that I had plenty of milk. She was also latching on ok but her mouth was just too small and was unable to take enough of the breast in her mouth. That caused excruciating pain every time she latched on, causing my entire body to shake. I got help and they were able to confirm I was doing it correctly, so there was no way to fix it until she got a bit bigger (other than really strong pain killers!) and again I gave up - it wasn't good at all that I was dreading every feed and my supply was suffering due to the stress.

My older daughter is extremely healthy and rarely has a day off school. She hasn't suffered with only 2 weeks of BF at all, and after a couple of weeks of beating myself up for "failing" again with DD#2, I realised that I did what I could and that a happy, calm mummy is better than a stressed, tense mummy!