DD (9mo) was still on 4 (breast) feeds a day until 2 weeks ago, when I dropped the afternoon nap and felt fine, no engorgement, just fullness for a couple of days. I now want to drop the morning nap feed and just keep up the morning & evening feeds. Thinking two weeks was a long enough gap, I dropped the feed yesterday, felt fine. But today I felt so engorged by 2:30pm I gave in and fed her a little just now before her afternoon nap. The relief! The only other milk she had from me was at 7:30am (cup of cows milk at 11:30am before morning nap).
How can I drop this last daytime feed without feeling engorged? Was thinking of maybe feeding her a small feed an hour on each day, eg. feed her at 3:30pm tomorrow, until I reach about 6pm (her bedtime is 7-7:30pm). Does this work? Any other suggestions please!
[Had two very painful weeks of engorgement after I stopped feeding ds, this happened way too quickly (his choice at 9.5mo) so I wanted to do it gradually this time! STILL painful!]