8month old DD only Bfeeding at night?

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I'm a little worried as for the last month my DD started only taking BFds at night. She eats 3 meals a day (BLW) and drinks water but I can't seem to get her to take any milk. when I try to bfeed her she either pushes me away looking around as if she is 'too busy' or she feeds for a minute or two at most. the night however is a different story and she feeds every 3-4hours.

I'm worried about my milk supply as my breasts feel pretty 'empty' most of the day now. I did try expressing and giving her milk from a cup during the day, she drank a minimal amount but it didn't seem to make a difference to her night feeding.

I think I may have got my first period back today (arrrrggggghhhhh) is this connected in any way?

if anyone has any tips/advice it will be gratefully received

xx

By 8 months your supply is well established. Lots of mums go back to work at this stage and continue to bf only at night. My breasts also felt pretty small and "empty" around that sort of time (hurrah for being able to sleep on your front!)

I would think if she is feeding less its may have triggered your period to come back?

I'd say just keep offering. As long as she's not losing weight, trust her to know what she wants.

Thanks so much for your response, your right about trusting her to know what she wants sometimes I just get myself in a panic and need to remember that!

Thanks again x

Yes I am a panic merchant too and I have had to learn to trust ds rather than it being instinct.

My DD is 8 months and I am only BFing her in the morning when she wakes up now. I was feeding her morning and evening, but she was doing the same as you describe, and I was wondering if she had lost interest, as she is now so well weaned.

I don't know if you mind feeding through the night, but what worked for us was having beakers of organic formula milk mid morning and afternoon between meals (instead of water or her previous bf) and she sleeps through the night and doesn't wake at all. My son used to wake up in the night around this stage, and I think if they don't have their need of milk in the day they make up for it in the night. My DD has organic goodnight milk in the evening which she is much more enthusiastic about than the evening bf we dropped last wk!

Thanks so much for your message sounds like a good idea to do the milk during the day in a beaker-how much do you give her? I'm definitely going to give it a go-which milk do you use? it would be amazing if she slept more as I'm pretty knackered!

It's nice that your still able to do one Bfeed I would like to do the same as the thought of stopping completely is a bit upsetting really as I do still enjoy it. It sounds like you've got the best of both worlds I'm crossing my fingers (and toes!) that it can work for me too

Thanks again xx