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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 😂
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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
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