Is this possible?

[MrsBop]

Hi Everyone,

My DD is 2 months and 2 weeks old and is mixed fed at the moment with too many bottles for my liking, today however she has only had 2 4oz bottles since 9am and the rest breastmilk, do you think it would be possible for her to become fully breastfed or is it too late? I am willing to slog my guts out and have started pumping again on a night for an hour, I also have fenugreek, milk thistle and motilium but I haven't take anything but fenugreek before when DD was weeks old and I absolutely stunk so much I made myself feel sick

Anyway would it be possible to fully breastfeed by cutting a bottle out a day or something? Also is it possible to feel an increase in milk? It's just DD hasn't fed since 6pm and my boobs are aching a bit, am I imagining it?

That's all my questions for now, thanks in advance.

xxx

 

[Arcanegirl]

It is very possible, just keep putting baby to breast during the day to get your supply back up and ditch the bottles

 

[Abz1982]

I feed Emma about 7 to 8 times a day from the breast, and she will always end up with a bottle feed at about 7pm as my breasts are just empty and she will only latch on for 5 mins then cry . I have tried to keep just getting her to latch on but she give up when she cant get anything.

I know folk say that getting them to feed should increase your milk but in 3 weeks it hasn't worked for me - just gives me a frustrated baby and incredibly sore nips as she pulls them about before she had her paddy

 

[Mervs Mum]

Yes it's totally doable. There are a few different approaches. We went cold turkey. I was hard. I fed and fed and fed and she would cry and cry. That's when I would usually give in and give the bottle but we persevered and within 3 days my supply was up and she was being exclusively fed. I slipped back to a bottle in the evenings and that took me a week to ditch. You just have to have support and not give in

 

[MrsBop]

Thank you all so much. I was going to go cold turkey but I just aren't brave enough although in 24 hours she's had 13oz and 3oz of that she had to have because I'd had to pop out to see my sons school teacher and thought she'd stay asleep, how wrong lol!

Anyway we're going to cut out a bottle a day, so the 3oz bottle she had this afternoon I haven't really counted because I would've fed her if I'd been home so we're cutting out the 8am 3oz tomorrow, then the 5am one the day after and then finally the 2am 4oz which I had to give into this morning to get her to sleep, she'd fed pretty much none stop for 5 hours, will do wonders for my supply but I'm petrified of falling asleep with her feeding and her suffocating in my giant boobs lol!

 

[Mervs Mum]

The way I dropped a bottle of EBM/FF more recently is probably the approach you should take. Dont cut the bottle out rather BF at that time for as long as you possibly can then finish with a top up. Have the bottle ready but go for as long as you can with the BF. Over a week my LO took less and less of the bottle then finally was happy with boobie only

 

[MrsBop]

Thanks again Mervs Mum, she breastfed for an hour earlier and then just cried and cried, think its because we were both too hot, I tried settling her but she wouldn't so she had 4oz of formula, think I'll have to start feeding with the fan on us both!

 

[Mervs Mum]

It's sooooo hot to be feeding isnt it. I actually laid on my side on LO's bedroom floor feeding her tonight so we werent stuck to each other....

 

[MrsBop]

Yeh it is lol I ended up laying her on feeding pillow and leaning more so she wasn't directly on my tummy, that helped and she fed til she fell asleep but then as soon as i move her she screams for more boob! I'm lucky that she does love breastfeeding so it should be easy if i just stick to it. Thanks again for all your advice, we're going to bed now for cuddles, hopefully she'll feed until she is full and won't need a top up but if she does so be it, we'll get there!

 

[Mervs Mum]

You will get there. Just take your time x

 

[Arcanegirl]

good luck

 

[MrsBop]

Just thought I'd do a quick update because I'm so happy lol! Last night Máilie fed from 10.30pm until 12am when she went to sleep, I moved her from me onto the bed, then about 10 minutes later moved her to her moses basket where she slept until 5.30am!! Thats the longest she's ever slept and it was purely on boobie milk!! It's really proved we can do this!! Tomorrow's big task is feeding in public, bit nervous about it but I keep thinking noone knows me except my sister so who cares if they see a bit of boobage if she messes around a bit lol!!

 

[Arcanegirl]

Big congrats

Ive done public a few times but ive been using a poncho thing to cover up.

 

[Mervs Mum]

WOW!!! That's fantastic. Seriously I totally believe in PMA - believe in your body girl!!!