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Is “Try Formula” the Answer to Breastfeeding Guilt?

“It’s okay to try formula, you know.”

Those are the words our family doctor uttered when I burst into tears in her office when my first born child was four weeks old and still hadn’t latched on once. I’d been pumping every two to three hours around the clock with a manual Avent Isis pump ever since he was born, feeding him the pumped milk, and trying over and over again to get him to latch on; to no avail.

“Yes, I know,” I said, blowing my nose between sobs, “but I don’t want to.”

 

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