How long did you breastfeed for or pumped and bottle feed with breastmilk? We are one month in doing combo or breastfeeding and pump + bottle, and i am getting exhausted by the process.

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Breastfed during the day and pumped/bottle fed at night for about 3 months then baby refused to nurse, triple fed with attempted breastfeeding followed by pumping and a bottle for two weeks (two weeks too long), just pumped and bottle fed for 5 months after that. I stopped a month ago and feel so much relief and freedom.
Do what’s best for you and your family, and know that your mental health deserves to be a prioritized part of that equation. Your baby needs you more than they need breastmilk.

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I have serious regrets and resentment about not quitting breastfeeding sooner. It really does not matter. Do whatever is going to help you find peace.

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Different perspective here. I stopped at 6 weeks after getting mastitis. Is definitely helped me come out of the postpartum funk, and my daughter did fine on formula.

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We’re currently at almost 14 months and just doing one nursing session in the morning (started weaning when baby turned 1 year old).

We exclusively nursed until I went back to work at 18 weeks, and then we nursed morning and night but I pumped at work so baby would have milk at daycare.

It was insane for the first 2 months, but got much better and easier once baby could draw more milk and fed faster (think 10 min for a full feed instead of 30-40min), we spread feeds out to every 4 hours, and baby started sleeping through the night.

You got this! At one month in, it only gets easier, truly.

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22 months with my first. It’s gets wayyyy easier after those first few months. After a year it’s nbd

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I exclusively pumped for baby#1 for one year. I made the decision at about 4-6 weeks that I was going to stop nursing because pumping only would be sustainable, but combo feeding was too much.

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I almost exclusively breastfed while on mat leave, 4 months, then pumped and breastfed overnight until 8ish months when he started biting. I stopped pumping at 9 months.

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My baby started refusing nursing, preferring bottles around 5 months, so I’ve been exclusively pumping since then (now at 7 months) My partner wants me to get to 1 year but I’m not sure I can take it that much longer 😂

I’m a few weeks into exclusively breastfeeding and I have no idea how I’m going to make it to six months. I feel trapped at home and literally cannot go anywhere — it doesn’t help that she doesn’t like formula

It gets easier after 2-3 months and they eat faster and less often. I also got good at feeding in the car (took my pillow with me) or on benches and that meant we didn’t have to be at home

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Lasted only 9 months and it certainly feels like torture at first with the dehydration and prolonged sitting (esp after such deep vag tears for me) but overtime its relieving. I got mastitis twice (hub cleared it out:) and things went well but dropped off when i went back to work, plus a horrible miscarriage that took me out for weeks and baby was so active hardly would keep still long enough to feed so supply just ran out around then

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