links to info on length of BF

[scrunchie]

I want to do my 6months and have only a 6 weeks left.. but might do a bit longer just because I would want to give antibodies to baby..
I would like to maybe keep up a couple of BFs a day - and the rest could be formula or even EBM.. but don't know how feasible this all is. Effect on supply - and sanity as it's all getting a bit tiring.

I'd like to read up on it to help me decide, does anyone know any good links/sources of info? Or have any words of wisdom?

Thanks in advance

Here you are for starters
www.kellymom.com/bf/bfextended/ebf-benefits.html

Thank you!
In theory it sounds like a good thing.
But practically speaking I don't know if I can manage it.
Can you do mixed feeding past 6months without suppy being affected? Maybe holding on a couple of feeds a day and giving formula or expressed for rest? How can this be done?

I hope that someone knowledgeable comes along in a minute. Tiktok is your woman.

My experience was that I mixed fed ds from about 5 months but supply was affected. I think that as long as you are feeding 2-3 times a day (or in the night, yes thanks ds!) then your supply will be maintained up to a point. It is always harder to bump your supply up than to let it drop IYSWIM.

I carried on feeding ds until he was about 15 months when he self-weaned. By that stage he was only having bf first thing in the morning. I was quite happy that he self-waened although the week after he got a filthy chest infection and I wished that he was still feeding as he would have got so much benefit from it.

scrunchie - A large proportion of people who breastfeed after 6 months mix feed. The general rule is that if you make changes slowly (e.g. take several days to change a feed from a breastfeed to a milk feed) your supply is likely to be able to cope. It also helps if the feeds you retain happen at regular times e.g. always the bedtime and morning feeds. Some people do struggle to maintain only 2 feeds but it's impossible to say in advance whether that might be you.

I'd also say though that right now if it seems as though breastfeeding is tiring for you, this isn't going to be breastfeeding forever. As a baby gets older and as they start to get calories and fluid from other places it really does become more manageable.
When you start solids you can feel like you are constantly thinking about the next meal or you're cleaning up after one. I would have found it difficult to add sterilizing of bottles and preparing formula or pumping and storing ebm into all that. Sitting down and breastfeeding was the time when I didn't have to be standing up in the kitchen for ONCE.