So I have two separate issues it seems. The first (and probably easiest) is a really, really sore nipple from where baby bit me! Hard enough to bring blood and leave a mark 
: . I can't let him eat off that side today, it's too too sore, but I've managed to pump it once and it's not engorged so I'm thinking some lanisoh? Any other suggestions? I hope it's well enough tomorrow for him to eat off of.
Second is that I've been sick all weekend, which is nothing considering I've been sick half of this babe's life. I've been hospitalized 6 times (I think, I've lost count) since March, and have worked very hard to maintain supply, pumping while hospitalized, fighting to make sure my meds are bf safe, etc. It's been very important to me, and the one thing I could hold onto through all of this. At any rate, baby will take a bottle just fine from anyone except me, and if I try to give him a bottle he throws it, laughs, and goes up the shirt for the real thing.
BUT I no longer have dh's support. He thinks the reason I'm sick, and the reason I'm still sick and weak and so on is because of bf'ing and that if I'd simply wean I'd get better. I know that's not the case, but I don't want to have to wean ds just to prove my point. But it's very difficult to carry on when dh just gives ds a bottle of formula (he doesn't even give him the pumped bm
) when I'm sleeping or sick. And it's difficult to hear him every day tell me I should just stop already. I bf our other ds (I have 5, but only the youngest 2 are also his) til 18months and he didn't pressure me about that.
I have a chronic lung disease that isn't going to go away whether I'm bfing or not. He doesn't care what the dr's say, he doesn't listen to them anyway (I could give specific examples of that but ds is wanting me and time is limited). If I can't convince him that bf'ing does not suck my strength away, how can I at least get him to butt out, bf in peace, and stop sabotaging our bf relationship?
Any ideas or hugs are welcome.
: . I can't let him eat off that side today, it's too too sore, but I've managed to pump it once and it's not engorged so I'm thinking some lanisoh? Any other suggestions? I hope it's well enough tomorrow for him to eat off of.Second is that I've been sick all weekend, which is nothing considering I've been sick half of this babe's life. I've been hospitalized 6 times (I think, I've lost count) since March, and have worked very hard to maintain supply, pumping while hospitalized, fighting to make sure my meds are bf safe, etc. It's been very important to me, and the one thing I could hold onto through all of this. At any rate, baby will take a bottle just fine from anyone except me, and if I try to give him a bottle he throws it, laughs, and goes up the shirt for the real thing.
BUT I no longer have dh's support. He thinks the reason I'm sick, and the reason I'm still sick and weak and so on is because of bf'ing and that if I'd simply wean I'd get better. I know that's not the case, but I don't want to have to wean ds just to prove my point. But it's very difficult to carry on when dh just gives ds a bottle of formula (he doesn't even give him the pumped bm
) when I'm sleeping or sick. And it's difficult to hear him every day tell me I should just stop already. I bf our other ds (I have 5, but only the youngest 2 are also his) til 18months and he didn't pressure me about that.I have a chronic lung disease that isn't going to go away whether I'm bfing or not. He doesn't care what the dr's say, he doesn't listen to them anyway (I could give specific examples of that but ds is wanting me and time is limited). If I can't convince him that bf'ing does not suck my strength away, how can I at least get him to butt out, bf in peace, and stop sabotaging our bf relationship?
Any ideas or hugs are welcome.
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