Hi all,
My DS is now 6 months old, and 19lb and has started to be weaned onto solids. We had a rough first few months with an undiagnosed tongue-tie and so have never managed to exclusively breastfeed, I just couldn't catch-up with his demand, but I was determined to breastfeed at least in part to six months and we have.
I have now started to reduce the number of breastfeeds I offer. DS gets feeds every 3 - 4 hours except at night (7am, 10am, 2pm, 5pm/6pm slit by bath, 10pm and about 4am). I understood that you should drop one feed a week, and so last week I dropped the 10am feed and he just got a large bottle of formula followed by some food and this week I'm dropping the 2pm feed, this leaves bfeeds at 7am, 5pm, and 4am - the others were bottle only anyway.....
However my boobs feel like they are going to explode! I must admit that because I've been giving formula as well at every feed I was expecting not to notice much engorgement... It's fine at the moment, but....
Do I need to think about hand expressing or should I not be dropping a feed every week? should I maybe do it so its a feed every two weeks? Its so difficult to find information on how to stop....
Also how many feeds can you go down to before your milk supply stops? I don't want to have to do a bottle in the middle of the night if I can help it - I'm hoping that now that DS is eating solids that by the time we get down to one or two bfeeds a day he'll be sleeping though!! {hmm]
Thanks for your advise,
Sallypoo