Feeling sad. My baby is 7 months and was EBF until we started weaning at 6mo. After a bit of a shaky start BF started going pretty well and it was especially great from 2-4 mos when I felt like I could grab baby and go anywhere anytime, was feeding in the sling, on the go, really happy and relaxed.
But for the last couple of months she's just so distracted by everything around her that she will only really feed when we are in bed at home (we co-sleep) with curtains drawn and in silence. I've had four episodes of blocked ducts/threatening to turn into mastitis (the latest yesterday/today) and I can link three of them to v distractable days, eg this lastest episode is I think the result of travelling to see friends at the weekend - being on a train and seeing new people is just so much more exciting than boobs apparently - I was all engorged and lumpy by the time we got home :(
The other occasion was after a night featuring a 5 hour sleep.
I feel like I can't go anywhere and do anything without risking yet more blockages and pain (and apparently I can't get a decent chunk of sleep without the same) but I don't want to spend the rest of my maternity leave stuck feeding in bed in the dark
Will this pass? It only seems to be getting worse at the moment.
Weaning doesn't seem to have reduced her appetite for milk or my supply. I'm worried too that if she does start eating more solids I'll have the same problem. I'm going back to work at 10mo and will be away for 12 hour stretches twice a week - what on earth will happen then?!
Sorry this is so long and moany. I've been massaging sore boob and trying to coax her to feed all day and I'm fed up and feeling really sorry for myself. I'd pictured us feeding for months and months yet but never imagined it would be punctuated with all these blockages.
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Sadboob · 08/10/2014 23:22
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