Hello,
I fed DD for nine months just fine seven years ago, and I've been feeding DS for the last five months without much fuss. My letdown has always been a bit tardy, which has got both DC quite worked up sometimes, but in the last week or so it's taking absolutely ages, to the point where DS almost gives up on the whole thing. I'm now starting to wonder each time whether or not it'll 'work', which can't be helping, even though I stay calm, think positively, gaze at my gorgeous little sausage and am not generally a het-up person.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I have recently started to use a bottle more (usually EBM) which DS takes like a dream, but it's no more than once a day and I'm still doing a good seven feeds a day direct from the boob, including a night feed. I usually get a letdown when I express. I'm using a bottle to get him used to it and will stick with this, as DD never took a bottle and it was a nightmare, resulting in me giving up BF within two days when she finally deigned to take a toddler spout, aged nine months. If DS will take a bottle I am likely to feed him for a lot longer, so to me it is a positive. Could this be part of the problem though? Can't see why it should be but I do wonder.
If anyone has any thoughts on the matter I'd be really pleased to hear them.
Thanks.