Hi Beany - don't be upset, you're not alone, I'm here for you remember and we'll catch up after Chrissy and have a good whinge/yarn - we practically have twins remember with our almost identical birthing stories! LOL Don't beat yourself up about formula feeding mate honest, it's so not worth it - I had a friend visit who had to formula feed as her bub was born with a cleft palate and he is now a thriving 9 month old! My sister couldn't BF because of mastitis and her kids are strong teens now. I have plenty of milk during the day but it depletes at night so I've been comp feeding the 2.00 am feed to get Amelia through and I felt guilty the first night but the health nurse just visited me and told me not to worry about it and it's fine. You do what you have to for Michael and what's best for you. I'm going to try expressing for the night feeds but if I have to continue the formula so be it, I've decided I'm not going to cry about it anymore or stress about it anymore as it really does not matter.

I hope that's made you feel better, we do the best we can with what we have and we can't do any more than that! There's far too much pressure on breast feeding these days and some of these nurses are too pushy if you ask me. I've been lucky with mine, although I have friends with lots of horror stories. Cheer up mate, you'll get there, we're all on a learning curve at the moment. I'd kill for a decent night's sleep! I struggle with Amelia sleeping and eating during the day but then I'm up during the night as she seems to always be hungry, thanks to my lack of milk in the evenings I think, either that or I'm not feeding long enough........she falls asleep after 10/15 minutes so what can you do!!!!!!!!

If only they came with instructions...........