Hurdles

I guess there's plenty of hurdles to traverse and hoops to jump through when you're a parent and I'm just starting to stumble my way through the course but damn if I'm not stubbing my toes! Well the hurdle of sleep is overcome for now, the one I'm trying to find my way over at the moment is breastfeeding. I'm stuck on this one because I still have to top up my little darling with formula otherwise he just wont settle and I can't pump enough breastmilk to use that as a topup, hell I can only pump 20mls at the most at the moment and most topups are more like 40-50mls.

I'm also not very happy but I am relieved because I've had to make one feed completely formula, which The Man Thing gives to the munchkin while I get some sleep because before we started doing this I was on the verge of an emotional breakdown due to lack of sleep and now that we have started this (we're only on day 3) I'm much more relaxed, rested and able to cope with those hairy moments when the baby just keeps crying! I know it's not going to do my milk supply any favours but it was a case of do this or go insane. I prefer to keep what remanants of my sanity I still have so I'm ok with our decision.