Feeling guilty!!

[looksinnocent]

I have a 3 week old and decided to stop pumping breastmilk. I didn't produce any milk until a week after he was born and was only able to pump about 2 oz from both breast every 3 hours. My breast hurt all the time and I decided it wasn't worth the effort. I feel so guilty though not giving my baby the breastmilk. I've read that breastfeeding helps reduce the case of SIDs so now I'm almost parnoid somethings going to happen and it's going to be my fault for not continueing with the pumping.

Also, now that he's on forumula, he seems so restless and constipated and so unhappy.

Just wondering if anyone feels guilty not breastfeeding or giving their baby breastmilk. I feel like such a terrible Mom!

[Tiffany]

I know how you feel. I wanted to breast feed so bad because "its whats best" well i knew the whole time that it would be hard and i might have to pump (might son was born with cleft lip & palate therefore he wouldnt be able to get suction on the breast) anyways after he was born i did put him to breast but he just couldnt get the suction he needed to actually get food, so i pumped, pumped, pumped, we were in the hospital for 3 days of his life, and everyone told me after 3-4 days i would get good colustrum, then good breast milk, well when we got sent home on the 3rd day i still didnt have a lot of colustrum i kept pumping etc, I had an apt with lactaion specialist at his ped office, by then i was getting breast milk but not alot... i finally gave up when he was 1 month old. i couldnt do it anymore i didnt want him to starve because i couldnt provide, i tried tea herbs, but didnt help, i probably could have done more, i am single mom so i think it made it that much harder, sometimes i still wanna kick my self in the butt because i feel i could have tried harder he's happy so im happy and i know he's getting al the nutrition he's supposed to be getting.