Restarting breast feeding, am I too late?

[ProtegeMoi]

I successfully breast fed my daughter from birth until she was 10 months old at which point she started getting teeth and was refusing to feed. After battling it out for a few weeks I relented and gave her a bottle.

I've regretted it ever since.

She is now a year old and I noticed in the bath I can still express small amounts of milk so I thought about trying to restart.

I hoped it would be as easy as just putting her back to the breast but she would not latch on.

Am I too late after 2 months to start again?

I'm no expert.. But I'd suspect for re lactation to be a success dd would need to want to feed? If she has weaned and is happy then that's good too

Yeah I suppose, she's happy as she is. I just miss it so much, its purely selfish reasons. I always said I'd continue until 12/18 months so feel like because it was cut short it bothers me more.

Being silly really.

I'm afraid it is a bit to late. She will need to feed very often and for a long time to bring the milk back ,and even then it might not work.
I know how you are feeling as my DD2 has nursing strike when she was only 6,5 months old and I gave up. I still feel guilty about that,but she is absolutley petfect and happy baby.
Try not to think too much about it,just enjoy motherhood, the baby stage will pass very quickly....too quickly.

It's not too late, but you need a co-operative baby :)

But breastfeeding is not just 'about' latching on, not just 'about' getting milk....it's about closeness and contact and your relationship. You can hold her skin to skin, you can bath with her, you can co-sleep, you can offer her the opportunity to latch on, and if she take it, wonderful. If she doesn't, keep up the closeness anyway.

You could make more milk return with expressing - this might make it more rewarding for her, if she does latch on :)

Are you me? At 51wks DS went on nursing strike and he has been ignoring me going around with my boobs out and squirting milk at him since then. It's been four weeks and though I'm devastated it ended like this (I don't even remember my last feed, just that he was trying to pull my top down and u said no) but I'm trying to accept its better he finished on his terms, not mine.