Man Calls His Wife Selfish Because She Isn't Comfortable Breastfeeding

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Mayarey
Jan 23, 2022 3:00 PM EST

The topic of breastfeeding seems to cause a lot of drama. It's kind of weird how people have such strong opinions about it. People judge women for choosing to breastfeed, but then also judge them for doing it in public. Just like most things in life, it seems that we can't win ladies. But then again, other peoples' opinions really shouldn't matter when it comes to how you choose to feed your infant. If people want to judge, let them judge, and that's including opinionated husbands.

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    Font - Posted by u/Throwaway60991 2 hours ago 3 AITA for meanly telling my husband to respect my decision to use formula?
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    Font - I F29 gave birth to my son few weeks ago. My husband's been super involved throughout my pregnancy and is continuing his Hoddns
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    Font - However, few months ago, we were discussing breastfeeding and he said breastfeeding should be our go to method to provide our son with all the nutrition he needs. Given my medical history, breastfeeding was possible but we couldn't know for sure til I tried it.
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    Font - And it hurt like hell, absolute hell. Everytime I tried to breastfeed I'd experience pain and discomfort. I tried following different ways to make it easier for me but I still got unpleasent feeling. I decided to switch to formula.
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    Font - My husband thought I made a hasty decision by going with formula. He's done a lot of research on the benefits of breastfeeding and said that not getting breastfed would affect our son's health and impact his growth and set him up for health issues in the future.
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    Font - I explained my reasons but he kept bringing it up all the time.
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    Font - Last night he brought it up again after he kept giving me uncomfortable looks in bed when I was feeding our son formula. I asked him why he was staring at me like that and he went on about the decision I made to use formula.
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    Font - He said he thought I chose formula way too soon and didn't try hard enough to keep breast feed and as a result I've "given up" on an opportunity to bond with our son.
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    Font - I was getting annoyed because it seemed like he keeps forgetting why I chose formula but his response was that whatever discomfert I was experiencing, I was being selfish thinking about stuff short term and not realizing how lack of breastfeeding could affect our son in the future.
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    Mammal - Basically saying I chose my comfort over our son's health.
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    Font - I lost my temper and in the meanest way, told him that nomatter how much he reads online about this subject, I'm the one going through this experience and the pain and discomfort.
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    Font - And said that he should respect my choice to use formula and stop acting like this decision was made out lack of care or consideration for our son.
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    Font - And if he's worried formula is expensive then it is what it is because If I can't be healthy then our son can't either.
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    Font - He argued saying "I'm sorry you got all mad because I was just stating a fact. But I think that as a parent I'm allowed to at least express my thoughts and concerns about what's been going on" I replied that it didn't seem like he was sharing his opinion but more like guiltripping, since he does this on the regular.
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    Font - He said " That's not true and you know it! I'm not even mad or anything I'm just disappointed that you chose this route, that's all". This set the tone for the rest of the night. He got out of bed, grabbed his phone and walked out.
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    Font - I felt genuinely bad because the way I look at it, He was just expressing his thoughts and I was so fast to shut him down and treat him as if he isn't the parent and gets equal say. AITA! Am I being selfish?
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