After a few challenging weeks, I settled into BF well. All I ever said was that I would give it my best shot, and I know I'm really lucky that it worked for me. DD is now almost five months old and I'm still exclusively breastfeeding her on demand. The thing is, I was so worried about disrupting my successful breastfeeding that I've never even tried anything else - even expressing. DD will be six months old on the 11th of January. I want to gradually get her onto a bottle, introduce solids and get my figure, sanity and life back, please! How can I do this without upsetting her too much? She loves the boob. Have I, as friends have suggested, made a rod for my own back? Should I start expressing, getting her used to sooking from the bottle, before steathily introducing formula? Which feed should I replace first? Is she going to go mad? Other mums' knowing chuckles and shaken heads are freaking me out. Isn't there some possibility that she might love the bottle? Is it bound to be an ordeal? I'm not judgey about bottle-feeding at all, but I actually know nobody who is still BFing a five month old baby.
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Really need advice about how to gradually STOP EBF.
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gail734 · 02/12/2012 18:58
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