Hi ladies,
This is probably a message for breastfeeders:
For Christmas I got a lovely present which involves a night out next month. It's very kind and generous but my 5month old is still exclusively breastfed and goes to bed after a final feed.
In the early days we used a bottle occasionally for expressed milk but soon stopped to help my supply regulate etc and he hasn't had a bottle since (about 4months ago!).
I know some people are happy expressing etc or weaning onto bottles, but I don't want to have to put him on a bottle just for one night. I also don't know how to manage him going to bed without final feed snuggles.
I've had a very difficult pregnancy and postpartum and the major positive thing has been breastfeeding and so I don't want to do anything different just because of a night off e.g. Wean / change night time routine. I know some might say it's good to be able to be free but I've been told I may not be able to have another baby and so making the most of this very short time feeding him myself is very important to me.
Any ideas on what to do?
Am I being unreasonable thinking it's nice but not appropriate right now?!
I guess my options are:
A) go and use bottles / and find an alternative to his final feed and snuggle (don't want to do this!)
B) don't go
C) go for part of it: feed him before the event and leave part way though so I'm back for his final feed
What do you guys think?
Any other options??