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Dear Mamas,<br><br>
I could use some input, as I've been fretting over some BFing troubles.<br><br>
DD is one week shy of one year old. She was exclusively breast fed, until I went back to work (when she was 6 months), at that time she started to have EBM from bottles (probably a mistake, she should have had milk from a cup) while I was away. She's been adding solids for 4-5 months, self feeding almost all of it. She gets a lot of her calories from solid food now, but still had nursies first thing in the morning and in the evening, and during the night if she woke up (which was seldom).<br><br>
I have two problems, and I think they are pretty obviously linked. One, she will reluctantly latch on now but only sucks for a minute before she pops off and cries. I am sure this is nipple confusion at least in part, she's a big girl and is observing that a bottle gives milk faster.<br><br>
As a result and maybe also before this got bad, my supply went from a small but adequate 6-7 oz per day down to maybe 2-3 oz per day. That's two pumping sessions. I'm freaked out that she's self-weaning, and so wound up that I could crack a walnut between my shoulder blades, I'm sure that's not helping.<br><br>
She's at home all day with her (extremely supportive) SAHD while I work. I have a strict work schedule but I can get home for lunch 3-4 days a week if I want to. I can only make time to pump twice during the day.<br><br>
Any ideas? Could it be a nursing strike? Should I keep offering, even if she pushes me away? If I can't convince DD to start nursing again, I will become and exclusive pumper just for the health benefits. But I have been losing sleep over her stopping nursing so young - we were set to go to two years and beyond. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/gloomy.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Gloomy">:<br><br>
-"miss lonelyboobs" aka Xen
I could use some input, as I've been fretting over some BFing troubles.<br><br>
DD is one week shy of one year old. She was exclusively breast fed, until I went back to work (when she was 6 months), at that time she started to have EBM from bottles (probably a mistake, she should have had milk from a cup) while I was away. She's been adding solids for 4-5 months, self feeding almost all of it. She gets a lot of her calories from solid food now, but still had nursies first thing in the morning and in the evening, and during the night if she woke up (which was seldom).<br><br>
I have two problems, and I think they are pretty obviously linked. One, she will reluctantly latch on now but only sucks for a minute before she pops off and cries. I am sure this is nipple confusion at least in part, she's a big girl and is observing that a bottle gives milk faster.<br><br>
As a result and maybe also before this got bad, my supply went from a small but adequate 6-7 oz per day down to maybe 2-3 oz per day. That's two pumping sessions. I'm freaked out that she's self-weaning, and so wound up that I could crack a walnut between my shoulder blades, I'm sure that's not helping.<br><br>
She's at home all day with her (extremely supportive) SAHD while I work. I have a strict work schedule but I can get home for lunch 3-4 days a week if I want to. I can only make time to pump twice during the day.<br><br>
Any ideas? Could it be a nursing strike? Should I keep offering, even if she pushes me away? If I can't convince DD to start nursing again, I will become and exclusive pumper just for the health benefits. But I have been losing sleep over her stopping nursing so young - we were set to go to two years and beyond. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/gloomy.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Gloomy">:<br><br>
-"miss lonelyboobs" aka Xen
