ahhh please help

[picklebum2011]

I'm sorry if this subject has been raised a billion times but really need help. My dd is 6 and a half months now and has been ebf until the last few weeks where i've been introducing a couple of ounces of formula in the afternoon. This last week/ten days i've been feling really like i'm going to come on, dragging tummy pain irritable, emotional bloated. Has anyone else experienced this? I've had no blee yet but got that dull ache in the bottom of my stomach that feels like a period.
Also does my dd need any other drink other than milk? Been giing her some water at times but wondered if she should be haing juice. First time mum it's all new an scary lol!!!
Will this mean my milk supply will slow down too?
Any advice greatly appreciated.

Water is fine

Try to leave off juice for as long as you can

Breast milk is a drink too so as long as she is having that as well as water, and formula that is good

Have you had a period since you gave birth?

god how many typo's in my last message! No not had period yet, know it can take a while for them to come back, believe me i'm in no hurry for them!! Just wondered why i feel like i have all the symptons, is this normal? Forgot to mention too that dd has had about 8 days of going through the night after preiously waking every couple of hours.
Thanks for replying about the drinks, i thought water was fine but mil always saying i should give her juice, my answer has always been that dd will let me know if she needs anything else.
has anyone else experienced the pmt but no period thing?

Yes, I regularly felt like I was due on from about 7/8m and it took a while for my periods to actually come back with DD2 & DD3 (11m post partum for both of them). It was horrible I was always wearing a pad and kept feeling that dragging/crampy sensation you get just before you come on.

I'm discounting DD1 because of the VAST amounts of formula she had in the first 2 months (period came back around the time she went to EBF at 8 weeks old).

On the juice front, it's just empty calories and if she takes water fine don't bother with it.

DD1 never had juice, can take or leave it now at nearly 5y/o but prefers water over any other drink barring milk (pref. vanilla milk but almost never gets it), whereas DD2 who kept stealing my squash (I hate water) from about 12m much prefers squash/juice to water. She only gets squash made with literally a drop of squash in a whole cup of water so I don't feel too bad. DD3 has been kept away from my drinks - I have learnt my lesson!

No need for juice. They used to recommend it for all babies, but it's def not necessary.

I used to give DS a sippy cup of water with his meals from six months. I'd help him lift it up a few times so he knew what it was for and then left it to him and he could drink confidently from it after a few weeks.
It was much later that I started offering it to him between meals, when he was taking more solids and less milk.

The period hormones do kick in when they sleep through or you drop a feed so you could find it's back soon.

I introduced a bottle of formula in the evening for my ebf DC at 3 months and found a week or so later that I had all the onset of period symptoms which came to nothing. Still no period 2 months further down the line. Might just be your body adjusting to dropping a feed...fingers crossed - it is one of the true highs of nursing not having to deal with em eh?! I hated mine returning with my first DC at 10 months.

ah thanks for replies hopefully no periods for a while though.