DS is 6.5 mo and I've just gone back to work in a demanding job with long hours. My mother will be doing most of my childcare and has moved in with DS and I for what I optimistically thought would be a couple of weeks while they learn the ropes of each other. DS has been bf but taking the occasional expressed bottle reasonably happily since 5 weeks. He's eating a wide variety of foods very well for over a month. He's also enjoying using a sippy cup. So I thought, let's first go to bottles/ sippy cup by day, mostly ff but as much exp'd bm as I can, feed more solids, and once we get that going well, switch the night feed too or hope that he sleeps through.
Well, it's been five days now and he's not going too well. He's crying a hell of a lot, taking a little milk but making awfully heavy weather of it, and I feel bad as he's giving my endlessly patient mother quite a hard time. Twice today and once yesterday I've ended up bf'ing after very prolonged hysterics, which I felt was teaching a very bad lesson but I just felt so sorry for my mother and for him.
Do I:
a) Keep on with Plan A, trying to get day feeds sorted first;
b) Stop all bf immediately?
I know it will all work out eventually but I just want to minimise the howling.
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villainousbroodmare · 02/02/2016 22:24
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