bf and formula my newborn

you are not a bad mummy! i completely understand how you feel. it was very very difficult for me to breastfeed my baby at the start and i resorted to mixed feeding with formula. i felt really lousy at first too that i could not provide for my son. i was constantly trying to increase my supply and i was so tired and stressed out from pumping/latching every 3 hours, just to get a really low yield each pump. it was exhausting and i cried so much. to be honest, there is a lot of external pressure from social media or from the older generation that you MUST breastfeed your child and that formula is bad. i slowly learnt to be kinder to myself and constantly reminded myself that fed is best! breastfeeding is also not “all or nothing”. you don’t have to be exclusively breastfeeding your child to be “successful”. if you can only afford to provide one bottle of breastmilk per day, it is still a success! once i let go of this pressure to “exclusively breastfeed”, i was a lot less stressed and then my milk supply slowly increased! i used to be only to feed my bub one bottle of breastmilk a day, but now at 4 months pp, i’m able to feed him about 4-5 bottles per day 😊 it also helps that my husband is able to chip in with the bottle feeding, so i can get more rest. more rest = more milk supply! you can do it mummy, take it one day at a time and don’t put too much pressure on yourself ♥️