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...if BLW will be right for you and your LO? We are really interested in the idea of doing BLW with Toby when the time comes and i'm in the process of looking into a bit more but i'm wondering how others decided it was right for them?
My main concern, i think, is that i demand breastfeed Toby, which means he feeds approximately 2-4 hourly round the clock and although that's fine and we're all happy with that, i do worry as i will be going back to work when he is approx 8/9 months old, and if we do BLW then will he actually be EATING that much by then?
As i understand it, at first it is more about exploring food and less about actually consuming it, which is great but if he is still getting ALL his nutrition from his milk feeds at that point and i go back to work 2 nights a week i can see us running into difficulties in terms of OH having to try to give Toby bottles of EBM 3 hourly throughout the night then heading out to work and then me coming in from a nightshift and Toby still needing to feed 3 hourly throughout the day, and us all eventually collapsing from sheer exhaustion?!?!
I mean, i know it's difficult to say but how much food is he likely to be taking at that stage? Is there an average of how much longer BLW takes compared to traditional weaning?
I'm not in a hurry to give up breastfeeding at all and could (easily) express at work if i am still doing it when i go back but it's really the frequency of the feeds (particularly during the night) that would become an issue i think.
I do love the idea of BLW though. I'm just feeling pretty confused about it all...
I don't think it helps that now he is 3 months people with an "old school" attitude are already talking about weaning when we're around (i.e. my Grandma eating a banana says to Toby "You'll be able to have one of these mushed up soon"...you get the picture) Also, because i don't feel i know enough about BLW i am not even confident that it's the right choice for us, so when people are going on about baby rice i can't even say "we won't be doing that" I just feel a bit i think!
My main concern, i think, is that i demand breastfeed Toby, which means he feeds approximately 2-4 hourly round the clock and although that's fine and we're all happy with that, i do worry as i will be going back to work when he is approx 8/9 months old, and if we do BLW then will he actually be EATING that much by then?
As i understand it, at first it is more about exploring food and less about actually consuming it, which is great but if he is still getting ALL his nutrition from his milk feeds at that point and i go back to work 2 nights a week i can see us running into difficulties in terms of OH having to try to give Toby bottles of EBM 3 hourly throughout the night then heading out to work and then me coming in from a nightshift and Toby still needing to feed 3 hourly throughout the day, and us all eventually collapsing from sheer exhaustion?!?!
I mean, i know it's difficult to say but how much food is he likely to be taking at that stage? Is there an average of how much longer BLW takes compared to traditional weaning?
I'm not in a hurry to give up breastfeeding at all and could (easily) express at work if i am still doing it when i go back but it's really the frequency of the feeds (particularly during the night) that would become an issue i think.
I do love the idea of BLW though. I'm just feeling pretty confused about it all...
I don't think it helps that now he is 3 months people with an "old school" attitude are already talking about weaning when we're around (i.e. my Grandma eating a banana says to Toby "You'll be able to have one of these mushed up soon"...you get the picture) Also, because i don't feel i know enough about BLW i am not even confident that it's the right choice for us, so when people are going on about baby rice i can't even say "we won't be doing that" I just feel a bit i think!