Sharla:

Hang in there! I feel your pain. Between the no sleep and the struggling with breast feeding I felt so overwhelmed! Cody was also slow at weight gain and constantly felt like I was doing something wrong. Seemed all my friends had hardly any problems. It was around week 10-12 that I felt like I had a grip on it. Just kinda accepted that he would be breast feeding every 2-3 hours for ever. Almost quit around week 9 but David really encouraged me to keep going. Babies just don’t seem to fill up as fast and felt like I was living on the pump machine. Don’t know if you pump but it turned put that I had the pump setting to high and that was keeping me sore. Lowered it and it took a little longer but it helped. Around 3 1/2 to 4 months I felt like a pro and could feed him anywhere. Turned out to be right choice because he had to have 2 surgeries and was not allowed formula for 12 hours before (at 4 months can u imagine) but breast milk was fine up until 3 hours before so thank goodness. With nick I quit after 6 weeks and turned out he was allergic to every formula available. By then it was too late to fix and spend the rest of his first year with a sick baby that could not keep much down. Both these are extreme cases but was really glad I stuck it out. It turned out to be the hardest and most rewarding thing I have ever done. Made to 8 months and he bit me and I hollered and poor baby was scared to latch on again. So just pumped for about a month then had to switch to formula. The funny thing is as hard as it was for me to do I cried for a week when he stopped I missed our special quiet time and that bond. Lol