If I could start by saying that you're not the first mother who has found breastfeeding difficult, if not impossible. My mother breastfed me for the first week of my life, but she didn't have the patience for it, and would end up crying, and I would get distressed because I couldn't get a feed, and our neighbour, who was a nurse, and had a son who was 14 months old, came in to see my mother and said that she switched to bottle-feeding, so the next day, she started me on S-26. When I was eight months old, she switched me onto cow's milk.

I am not a parent, but I have a niece and nephew, and they have pushed me to meltdown several times. One time, my brother came over with them, and he decided to go and get some lunch for himself and my parents and the kids, and my niece flopped down onto the floor, crying and my father took her on his lap. I was preparing for a doctor's appointment and the noise was driving me mad. Then, my nephew screamed, "I want Mummy!" I was stressed, and I was angry with my brother, and wanted to ring him up and say, "Get back here! Your kids are screaming and it's doing my head in!"

I would not be able to cope with the sensory overload of having kids.