Long but please listen.
I've been b/f for 7 wks now and I am at another crossroads. I have been giving DD one bottle of formula at night for 3 wks now so that dh can do this - on wkends when he is home from work and to make the evening routine go faster when he is not here. I have also given the odd top up of EBM at different times of the day - or like on sunday when whe travelled 1.5 hrs by car - one way. DD seems to be refusing to suck on the breast now. She gets frustrated after a short period of time, pops off and screams. Sometimes it is wind, sometimes it seems like she is annoyed about supply and demand. Last night (at 10.30) she wolfed down 4.5 oz of formula in under 10 mins - with a newborn teat - and that included the breaks I made her take to burp. This leads on to lots of burping and possetting between 1 am and 7 am this morning as I am sure we could not clear off all the air she swallowed. Of course I have had the question 'is my milk drying up?' but I have not taken any breaks from feeding that are inordinately long to cause this to happen imo. And since sunday I am becoming more diligent about doing it. I do however have trouble expressing or miss expressing or go past 3 hrs sometimes due to the pressures of life and being a 1st time mum.
I have shed many tears in the past 3 days as I do not want to start with a bit of formula and end up wholly formula feeding.
I want to keep b/f but know that come the first Sept, I am back at work full time and need to also consider that I cannot exclusively b/f then. (to me expressing to take to daycare will not be the answer.) I think the long term solution is that I need to learn to mix feed but I don't know how to start or how to go about it successfully.
How do I get from where I am to getting baby back to accepting my breast without frustration.
For the time being, I still want baby to be happy at my breast.
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alux · 08/06/2005 10:04
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