Sentences with phrase «feeds feelings of failure»

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are made to feel tremendous guilt and failure at the hands of some of the so called «experts» (I call them breast feeding Nazis!

I've felt like somewhat of a failure of a mother and female in general for never making it past a few weeks without a bottle... because it feels like feed the bottle or sit there all day while your baby sucks and starves.

A systematic review of the scientific literature indicates that women who intend to breastfeed but who later feed their babies formula consistently report feelings of guilt, anger, worry, uncertainty, and a sense of failure despite the relief that introducing formula after experiencing difficulties with breastfeeding may bring (Lakshman, Ogilvie, & Ong, 2009).

Some moms feel like failures, but the truth is that cluster feeding is just a part of the process.

My first birth was complete with a reluctant epidural and inept education in feeding babies with tongue ties and having inverted nipples and loving my child but so not loving being a mother with this looming feeling of failure and just being utterly lost and then realizing four months in to this journey of hot mess, surprise, I was pregnant again and terrified.

if breastfeeding is something you truly want for your child, and like me you are one of those 3 %, you will feel like a failure and you may well face judgemental professionals and the like when you make the only option you have to switch to formula feeding.

Many respondents made connections between formula feeding and feelings of guilt and failure, as three participants describe below:

I feel that if you are uncomfortable with breastfeeding, that «bonding time» that should help build trust, will lead instead to frustration, resentment, and, at least in my experience, a feeling of failure; formula feeding both of my sons still gave me the wonderful experience of nurturing, caring for, and bonding.

However, despite their sometimes strong feelings of guilt and failure, many of the formula - feeding participants expressed a powerful desire to re-establish their identities outside of the context of pregnancy, childbirth or mothering:

I felt like a failure, and suddenly all I could think of was the benefit of breast - feeding.

«It was a colossal failure, and it feeds the already overwhelming cynicism that the public feels about Albany,» said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.