After struggling with feeding 17wk old DS1 for about 4 weeks now I think I'm going to have to start mix feeding. He's just got fussier and fussier and has slowly clocked on to my feeding strategies and one by one they don't work. This last week I've not left the house so I can feed him in his sleep which is the only way he'll bf now. Today that didn't work so he's had a couple of bottles of formula. He still seems to be fine to bf during the night, early morning and sometimes at bedtime so roughly half his feeds.
HV advice the other day was that if he feeds asleep then carry on doing it despite me saying I was getting a bit depressed never leaving the house and working my life around his feeds. But now he seems to have clocked onto that too.
He loves a bottle and I need to stop battling with him. So is it sustainable just feeding this way without pumping? My boobs feel ok these days and stay reasonably soft even when missing feeds.
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Heatherbell1978 · 23/12/2014 20:05
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