Switching from expressed breast milk to formula

[littlemissbull]

I have fed my daughter with EBM for 8 weeks since birth and now need to switch her to formula. I express every 4 to 5 hours, roughly 5 times a day and get approx 200-300ml at each sitting. I want some advice on how to start my supply drying up and moving her over to formula. I have stacks of ebm in the freezer so can complement formula bottles with that still but I am really unsure on how to go about changing the expressing itself. I cannot really drop a session out because my breasts become lumpy, engorged and painful. Should I just look to reduce the amount I express each time and if so by how much? I don't want to do it too quickly for fear of mastitus.

Any help and advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Julie

Julie - awfully sorry to tell you this, but at some point you are going to have to drop a feed. I went through a similar thing with DD. Expressed for eight weeks and reached a point where I just needed to switch to formula. It took me 14 days to drop from expressing six times a day to not at all.

If you want to send me your email address to [email protected] I will mail you the schedule I devised and used. It is a sore process but if you do it gradually it is managable. It'll also work well to get your baby's tummy used to moving onto formula.

Thanks for that I'll email you.

Julie