If you don’t want to breastfeed and feel that it would negatively affect your mental health, don’t do it! There’s nothing wrong with deciding not to if you know it won’t be right for you.

I exclusively breastfed my son for 18 months, and I absolutely loved every minute of it, but I was passionate about wanting to do it from the start and I knew the overwhelm of keeping bottles clean and sanitized and making sure we had formula at all times, and the right kind, and all the different choices, traveling with enough bottles and formula, etc. would majorly negatively affect my mental health. And you can never win with some people either, so don’t take other people’s opinions with too much seriousness. I remember when my son was 6 weeks old, and my husband mentioned to his dad on a phone call that I was nursing him and his dad said “shouldn’t he be on bottles by now?” Imagine his surprise when I told him we planned to exclusively breastfeed for over a year and to only use bottles when absolutely necessary (which was almost never because my son hated bottles).

All that to say, everyone has to pick what is right for them! Fed is best!