i just dont know what to do. DD2 is proving to be a right little missy with the bottle!!!!
in a nutshell...i have started to wean her at 6 months....i'm going very very slowly because of my mastitis and oversupply issues.
i'm starting to get really worried that she isn't getting enough. at her 6month jabs, the nurse wasn't thrilled with her weight curve and said that she *couldnt* drop down any further and needed to be holding her own when we get our 7-9 month check....so i'm in a tizzy tbh!
i swapped the afternoon feed first....that was sandwiched by 2 BFs so she never took a huge amount. last week, i swapped the 11.30am feed aswell so now she has two bottle feeds in a row & by the time we get to the 5.45pm BF, she seems to be starving....it's often quite hard to get her to sleep for her 20-30min CN at 5pm...no wonder though....
i was hoping to swap another feed (undecided yet whether it would be morning or BT feed) but i'm slow to do that when she's not happy with the bottle, kwim?
i go back to work mid-june for 2 weeks (monday ,wed, fri the first week....mon, tues, thurs, fri the second week) so i am in no huge rush to wean fully....although my initial plan would have been to wean to formula in the next few weeks. i go back to work full time in september.
our day is like this right now:
6.30am BF
11.30am bottle of BM (sometimes only 1.5 or 2 oz....i guess i should say usually, not sometimes
)
3pm bottle of BM (usually around 3oz
)
5.45pm BF
6.45pm BF
10.30pm DF (BF)
we *try* to do a solid feed after the first two feeds but she is really not keen on solids so far so i'm not getting much in
i jsut dont know what to do.
i dont want to let her go hungry....but i feel like i am being unfair to her by not offering the BF after either of the bottles...although this has been going on since last monday so i'm not even sure that i would have enough milk...ugh....i just dont know what to do....
