Hiya
My Ds is 5 weeks today and i have been BF him but have had to give him formula in the evenings as a top up because it seems like there is no milk there for him to have.
He gets very frustrated by it and wants to be constantly at the boob but then gets cross. If i try to express in the evenings i dont get anything out but i've just done 20 mins of expressing now and got 4 and a half oz out so i know there is milk there.
He also has his last feed as formula so daddy can do it and i go to bed early and if we go out anywhere i'll take a bottle of formula or ebm (if i have got any) because i'm not comfortable doing it in public, although i also can bring myself to feed him formula in public either - not sure why cos i bottlefed my DD and DS. I guess i feel guilty, knowing that i should be feeding him but cant bring myself to do it. There was a girl BF her baby on the bus yesterday, i never noticed til she got off and was still feeding him as she was walking off and i wished i could have the courage to do that but then at the same time the old ladies were going on about it and wiped out any confidence i could have got from seeing the girl do it.
Sorry to go on, guess i just need some reassuring words
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juicygal · 11/08/2006 14:13
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