My baby is 9 months old and I would like to cut down the BF to just a few feeds a day ? morning and bedtime with perhaps one in the day. My baby is on 3-4 meals of solids a day. He also takes formula from a bottle and water from a cup. However he LOVES breast-feeding!! He has only once ever refused a BF (when he was screaming with his teeth and I thought he must be dying!!!). He never comes off the breast voluntarily; I always have to take him off. (Yes I know you are not meant to do this, but once I left him on just to see how long he would feed for and it was I hour and 50 minutes and I?m sorry ? life is too short.).
Every time he is tired or frustrated or upset he wants to nurse. This happens frequently most days as he is crawling and cruising so falls and bumps himself a lot. I have NO IDEA how many times a day he feeds. He also has proper long feeds in the morning and at bedtime. Oh and in the middle of the night.
I don?t mind feeding him when he is upset and love being able to comfort him. But I assume that all this feeding is keeping my milk supply really high and I want to cut down now. I know that the theory is to stop slowly about one feed a week. But every time I have tried to drop even one feed I get lumps and then mastitis. Last time it was tracking across my breast and I had to get antibiotics from the out of hours doctor, as they didn?t want to leave me till morning.
Any advice please? I have trawled through the old threads on this topic but am none the wiser.
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How do I stop/cut down on breastfeeding?
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KristinaM · 03/02/2005 21:45
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