Am I being ridiculous?
With my first I really struggled to breastfeed, struggled with low supply, baby couldn’t latch, ended up giving up 3 weeks in after desperately trying everything. It was a horrendous time and I felt severely depressed over it, I felt like a massive failure. This time I’ve been colostrum harvesting. I wasn’t expecting much, given my previous issues but thought I’d try so at least baby gets something if I struggle again. On day 2 of harvesting I got 2 x 1ml syringes from each breast and honestly was so amazed and excited! Feeling incredibly happy and accomplished I show my partner the syringes like look! How amazing is this?! With a big grin. His reply? “Erm… ok”*weird look*. I’m like no but remember with the first I was getting nothing and how hard it was? Ive got 4 x 1ml syringes already! He says “I don’t know what you expect me to say…. Am I meant to be excited? It’s just milk and every pregnant woman makes it it’s not special or anything.” So then I’ve got really upset, like fine you don’t get it but you could have at least gone along with my excitement you didn’t need to act like that.
🙃🙃🙃 sounds like complete lack of understanding around the whole situation. My OH also was a bit bemused by the idea that not every woman can breastfeed, there’s such a lack of understanding and education. I don’t think I’d hold it against him but I’d be keen to have a proper conversation to explain why it matters and why it impacted you x