My DD is 4 months old. I had to return to work when she was 6 weeks old. She has been exclusively on breastmilk. Things were going good. She went from breast to bottle like a champ and I was pumping enough at work to get her through when I wasn't there. However last week I got sick and had to go on an antibiotic. My supply seems to have decreased. Over the weekend we had to give her a 4 oz bottle of formula, which she gulped down like she had been starving. Today all I had to leave her with was a 5oz bottle of breastmilk and formula for the rest of the day. I am pumping at work today and hoping to produce enough for her to have only my milk tomorrow. She does fine nursing at night. I nursed her twice in the middle of the night last night and then once before I left for work in the morning, 9am, I will be home at 6:30pm. I am under quite a bit of stress and then adding this to it, ugh! My husband is pretty upset that she is getting the formula which doesn't help my guilt or feelings of failure. She is my 5th child and around my house formula is a dirty word, sigh.
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I guess I just needed to vent. Thanks for listening.
