I went back to work last week, ds is 5 months old, and I work 9-5pm monday, wed, fri. So far I feed him in the morning before I go, then my mum gives him a bottle of ebm and dh later gives him a bottle of formula (I can´t seem to express enough for 2 bottles of ebm in the time I have) I then feed him before bed and twice in the night. On my days off I do all feeds.
Over the 4 days I´ve so far had to try and express milk while I´m at work though it seems like there´s less each time and I´m struggling just to get 6ozs. I give this to Mum and she knows she can offer him a formula top up if he needs more after the 6 but he never asks. However he´ll glug down 8ozs of formula later.. But I don´t know how I can express more - as it is I struggle to find time at work and by night I´m so exhausted I rarely remember.
This is a bit waffly, I think I´m just worried about it all going pear shaped - tonight for the first time since he was a tiny baby he was really frantic at his evening feed. I´m not sure why, he´d eaten at 3pm and at about 6ish he´d had a small feed (drink really) but wasn´t very interested. Then when I laid down to feed him at 7pm he was so impatient he was only sucking for a few seconds at a time and the milk wasn´t letting down but where he would normally keep going until it did he kept pulling away and crying in frustration. I ended up giving him a bottle and he put it away in no time at all.
Oh I don´t even really know what my question is.. I really like breastfeeding him and don´t feel ready to stop although he definitely seems ambivalent about it. (And by that I just mean he isn´t a baby who´ll hold out for breastmilk and nothing else will do, he´s always been happy to take a bottle either of ebm or formula and no problem taking a bottle from me.. ). Does this all sound normal? I think the feed tonight has got me all worried that my supply is going to stop...