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EAT => Breast Feeding => Topic started by: <Catherine> on January 12, 2014, 21:22:14 pm
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So as you may well know, I had an unexpected night (well 24hrs, actually) away from DS2. He took formula in a bottle from my mum which I'm really pleased about as its been refused from us and I was hoping to get dh doing a night feed.
I fed him at 3pm yesterday and was so busy worrying about him being away from me that I didn't stop to think about my boobs....until I woke at 3.30am with them being rock hard and leaking everywhere! So I got up and pumped then, and again mid morning, and then breast fed him at 4pm today.
I'm hoping to replace his two nf's with a bottle and probably his bt feed. Dh gave him a bottle at bt tonight to see how he'd take it and we had huge success. So should I be pumping at all? Or only if I get uncomfortable like last night?
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If it is a feed you would usually be doing then you should pump for it, but if you are dropping the feed, then no, only for comfort. I always pumped for a few days 'just in case' when I did similar with Jacob at 7 mths.
Hope that makes sense!
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Yes, that makes sense :) I should probably have pumped this evening as I'm not yet sure if we're dropping the bt feed but I'm in bed now with a headache and can't face it tbh. I suspect I'll need to pump during the night now though if last night was anything to go by!
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I can't pump worth a darn except for first in the a.m. so when E dropped her nf's I just hand expressed a bit for comfort until my boobs finally got the message that they werent needed at night!
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I had to pump in the night for a while with DS (little monster fed every 2-3 hrs from me, but instantly slept 7-4 once he was on a bottle ::)).
With DD it was faster. I was dropping the whole lot though and I really did just pump to avoid leaks and pain. I seem to remember the last pump being about 10days after stopping completely.
One missed pump won't matter, just like a missed feed wouldn't :-* :-*
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I haven't been able to pump at all until last night and that was 12 hours after he last fed and then again about 7 hours later, boobs were very engorged, and I would normally have fed 3 or 4 times within that time.
I don't know that I could have pumped this evening I suppose as I wasn't at all engorged at that point.
He's had another bottle and a long nw'ing ::) I have a feeling I'm going to wake up uncomfortable and leaking in a few hours so will pump then if I do, but will probably breast feed ds if he wakes for another feed and I haven't yet pumped.
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How did it end up Catherine??
Both my kids were rather windy when they first started bottle feeds. BFing is harder work, so they used to guzzle a bit and end up full of air ::). Slower teats didn't help either as they were used to fast milk from me, it was just those different mechanics of feeding.
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Not a good night so he woke for another feed at 4am so I bf him then which was fine and meant I didn't need to pump.
We did the bt feed by bottle again tonight and will do first nf by bottle again too.
I gave him the bottle for the first time tonight and I just cried all the way through it! He wasn't bothered that he wasn't having a boobie from me :(
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Aww...E would not take a bottle from me at first but now she couldn't care less! Silly babies!
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The BFing hormones are so strong. It's hard :-\ :-*. Even after I decided to finish feeding Jacob I would sometimes BF 'just to see'. With Megan it was different due to the circumstances I was quitting in, but that time I cried whenever I saw her suck her bottle nicely ::) ::). I was just so pleased that she liked it!!
And she did - I think she grew to love that bottle more than me!!
And both times I felt so much better in myself (calmer, more rational, more myself) once I wasn't up feeding all night long. In retrospect, I pushed myself far too far with it all.
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Yeah it was nice to lie in bed whilst dh went and fed him last night, even if I did then end up trying to get him to sleep for the next hour!
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It's hard. Sometimes you are so desperate for them to take that bottle but also you don't really want them to either. I feel the same. Small steps being made here with G. C would never take a bottle from me so I hope G will eventually learn to.
Hugs xxx
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DH and DD worked out an acceptable form of 'daddy can settle Megan to sleep' after a couple of weeks. Something that Mummy had to wean for him later ::) ::) ::). Def helped DH bond with her as well. Her never really fed DS even after I stopped BFing. My Mum used to love it as well. Soppy lot ::) :P.
Hopefully G will take a bottle from you too Nicola. It is nice to see their little faces when they feed and go all sleepy :).
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Just because careful you don't get blocked ducts if you are several dropping feeds quickly and getting engorged.
Hugs.
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I seem to have only got engorged that first night, which wasnt surprising as I didn't feed in such a long time. The second night I wasn't really engorged at all by the time he took his second nf from me.
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Yes, with Megan I would have been OK until 4am. I think my overnight milk supply must have been pretty rubbish!