Nursing Aversion When Pregnant

[eagle2010]

Just wondering if anyone has experienced a feeling of nursing aversion when pregnant?

DS is one week shy of his first birthday and I am 6+5 weeks pg with DC2.

In the last few days, breastfeeding has become incredibly painful and I feel nauseous and very emotional while feeding and at the thought of feeding.

In my head I just want to stop altogether but I feel guilty for DS because I'd thought I would feed him for longer than this.

He's never taken a bottle (drinks from a sippy cup) and he hasn't had formula.

Can I just start giving him cow's milk from next week?

Interested to hear other people's nursing while pregnant experiences.

He'll be fine with cows milk in my opinion. I can remember feeding my dd whilst feeling extremely sick but don't think it was made worse by feeding - if that makes sense! When I was 6 months pregnant with ds2 my dd suddenly refused point blank to breastfeed any more which at the time I was told could be because the taste of breastmilk changes at around that stage of pregnancy. DD was 11 months old - had been taking occasional bottles of expressed milk up until then but no formula. She drank well from a sippy cup so didn't want to start regular bottles. I moved her straight to cows milk and she never looked back!

You are fine to start him on cow's milk now. One week won't make any difference. Goodness, if it was that precise you'd have to adjust if you baby was born earlier than 40 weeks. It's an approximation.

Also, try not to worry too much about milk per se. Past one I think people get too worked up about babies having X amount of milk. If he takes cow's milk from a sippy, great. But you can also think about how much yoghurt, cheese, etc he is having.

And congratulations!

I am 6m pregnant & feeding ds 2yrs with no aversion, just slightly more tender, BUT I was pregnant at Xmas & experienced waves of nausea when feeding. Also if dp tries to gently touch/stroke me when I am breastfeeding it makes me want to slap him-I think that is a form of aversion! Some people claim if you struggle through it will pass.

Thanks for the replies. I knew that there would come a point where BF would be tough while pg but I didn't think it would happen this quickly!

I'm not worried about milk per se, more about fluids in general. DS still feeds 4x a day and 2x overnight so I'll just need to be sure he's still drinking enough.

Good luck to all in your pregnancies!