New Exclusive Pumping Tribe! - Page 8

[maos211]

My 2.5 ye old still takes a bottle at night. I'm not concerned about it at l. I think part if it is cultural... I'm from Venezuela and I see friends on FB with 3 yr olds still with bottles.....

[clairebear3]

About the bottle thing, I had never given this any thought until I saw it mentioned on another thread here.  I assumed that babies just grew out of it.  The last time I was at the health visitors office, I saw on the chart that they recommend stopping with the bottle at 18months.  I asked the paediatrician who was on duty and she said it's to dissuade people who let kids drink all day from bottles with milk/juice/water etc or putting them to bed with bottles.  She had a similar view about paci's, that they should only have them for sleeping and not all day.

I think I would continue to let my LO have a bottle at night as long as she wants, it's seems like such a good comforter rather than a cup...
 

[rgarlough]

Bumping us up a little and chiming back in that I have cut down to 5-6 pumping sessions per day.  I've been trying to get rid of the during the night 2-3 am session but it is just too long between sessions most nights and I wake up from a horrible 'where's my pump' dream.  I've just about made it 7 months (on the 22nd) which seems amazing to me when I think back to how hard it was to ramp up my output but still seems so far away when I think about making it to 1 year.  

I did up the formula intake so he gets roughly 50/50 because during my ovulation and period my output drops tremendously - like at least 1/2.  Even with all the supplements and vitamins, I wasn't able to increase my supply unless I was back to pumping 10+ times per day which was not an option.  

I know that wasn't my dream or my ideal but at this point, pumping exclusively is so much different that breastfeeding that I can't really compare the ongoing relationship I have with my pump to extended breastfeeding!  That was so much 'better' with ds#1 than this pumping relationship.

[maos211]

Did your supplements include calcium? That completely fixed my supply issue around ovulation