my dd is now 11 weeks. She breastfed at birth but didn't latch well and I was really sore. At 3 weeks she was painfully thin, hadn't re-gained birth weight and basically got so weak she refused to breast feed full stop.
I began expressing full-time - and luckily have loads of milk so no probs there. She has been happily thriving on bottles of my milk since 3 weeks old. I continued to offer the breast every few days and she would have a little nibble but was not feeding properly.
Anyway, over the last few days she's been rooting for the breast more and more and this morning for the first time she latched on properly and I could really feel the let-down. She has been only breastfeeding since then and seems happy and content. I have offered her a bottle after each breastfeed but she hasn't wanted it. The problems is I've been double pumping till now and freezing around 20oz a day as have so much milk and that's only pumping 5 times in 24 hours . Now my breasts are engorged and the milk is just piddling out. I know expressing would sort it out but she has just finished feeding on both sides so I think pumping as well would send the wrong message to my breasts.
What do you reckon? I was thinking of giving it 24 hours of breast only to see how she gets on. I'm terrified she'll get weedy like before but she is so super healthy and alert now and I really think she'd let me know if she was hungry.
Am going to try to breastfeed in the middle of the night when she wakes - that would so fab as sitting at the breast pump at 3am is pretty crap.