Hello every one - I am trying to get back to all breast feeding after having to introduce formular in week two as DD lost too much weight. I have managed to go a week on all breast now, but DD has stopped putting on weight, having put on 5 oz the previous combined feeding week, and now is sleeping for shorter periods and taking all evening to go to sleep, where as previously she would drop off without too much fuss by 8.00 - I am worried that I am still not producing enough as she seems always hungry and her no weight gain - she is 7 weeks - and she wants to feed most of the night and through the day - she tends to have small feeds and I'm worried that she never gets the hind milk this way - she is still having periods of very fussy feeding crying on and off the breast - I really want to breast feed but am under pressure to go back to mixed feeding, and am exhausted as well, despite trying my best to do nothing but feed.
It's so hard and strange - I have always has a love hate relationship with my boobs, which have always been much bigger than me - 32FF me size 10 - and have made me the target for bulling, unwanted advances and even attack in the past - I finally mananged to stop dressing like a boy and hiding and became a Burlesque performer when I turned 30 - and now I feel so happy that they are more than the focus for male fantasy at last but am sad to think I may have to give up BF.