Re-motivate me please

[ButterpieBride]

DD2 is now nearly 9 months and I am suddenly getting a bit hacked off with breastfeeding. No idea why. I am finding myself putting off feeding her and getting irritated when I do, especially now she wriggles about so much (including trying to crawl with my nipple in her mough when we feed in bed)

Meh. Can anyone remotivate me please?

Bottles and formula are really tedious. In the early stages, in all honesty, I suspect it is easier to bottle-feed than breast-feed - but not by this point, honestly. And you get to feel all madly smug once you've passed the one-year mark, IME. And then you feel madly smug when you say casually that oh no your baby never had formula. I'd give myself three months to get to the one year stage and then if you want to, switch to cow's milk (organic if that sort of thing bothers you - it did me) in clean but not sterilised bottles. What d'you think?

Sounds familiar. Ok, how about this:

Formula is expensive. Breast feeding is free.

Making up formula is a faff, and more faffy than whipping your breast out. And you might get irritated by the way your DD feeds from a bottle (eg getting distracted, trying to crawl off with the bottle in her mouth etc) the same as breast feeding.

If you keep going a bit longer, you can just switch straight to cow's milk.

Might be a good time to get a breastfeeding nnecklace to get your DD to stay put during feeds?

Oh, yes, smugness is good too. Although IME (I fed to 12 months and DD didn't have any formula at all) I have only allowed myself to be inwardly smug for fear of offending anyone in RL!

Nothing like quiet smugness, though. Especially as then you can feel additionally smug about not offending anyone

(Seriously, though, you're right, I actively try not in RL to go on about breastfeeding.)

tell/remove her if it hurts!
only 12 weeks to go (if you wish)
changing now has got to be more aggro than continuing.
wouldnt switch to a bottle though, you have saved her teeth/bite etc. thus fur.
go for a soft spouted cup.
very well done regardless, 9 months is brillo.

Probably hormonal change at this point, as she's dropping feeds for food.

I remember getting annoyed at that age too.

Why make life harder for yourself?

All the immune benefits are still important, you continue to protect your own health too, it's free, environmentally-friendly and the ultimate in locally-sourced food.

What motivated me when going through something similar (though DS was a little older) was I didn't want to lose my "magic wand" that can get a recalcitrant toddler to calm down, get them off to sleep, and act as a laxative as needed.

Hormones is right, btw. Just started my period. So now I have periods and breastfeeding to sort out- it'll be like just after she was born all over again!