Just want to rant about my first time breastfeeding journey

My husband and his MIL are not supportive of my breastfeeding journey. I am a FTM, and I just gave birth 1 week ago. I know all of this takes time to master the skill, and this is supply and demand one. But every time I told my husband, to open the book page for him to read about breastfeeding and latching position, he was somehow not interested to know this topic. Always got excused. Now, the MIL. His mother didn’t bfeed him. She is a very pro with formula milk. Every time she comes to our home, when I try to latch my baby, she likes to ask how? Got milk or not? How... does the baby want to drink? Then if she sees that the baby stops sucking or looks tired, she will comment “just give formula milk la”. I know she is really into formula milk. She won’t ask me to latch him when she is in our house and see the baby cries. I told her that all this takes time for my milk to have a bigger supply. I must breastfeed (supply and demand). If not he will have the habit with milk bottle, and I can’t produce milk. And this is for baby antibodies. But well what can I do when the senior mindset is already unsupportive from the start. Very hard to be convinced. Feeling sad and uncomfortable...

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Don’t care abt your MIL comments! Just continue latching eventually you will produce sufficient milk. My first born immune system is very good because I believe I breastfed him. He seldom fall sick and had zero covid symptoms when he tested positive. You can do this!!

3y ago

Yesss! I told her about this too. This is more for the baby, to give my antibody to him. 😑 He is still so small and the more I dragged, the worse. Now is the only time to increase my milk supply by breastfeeding him. Thank you for the encouragement! :)