Please help me stop breastfeeding properly...

Pennylane824

I just can't do it anymore. I'm under a ton of stress which has reduced my supply and I'm ready to move on. DD takes a bottle like a champ and has no problems with formula, so I just need information on drying up my milk.

astara

i don't know the answer to your question/request, but are you SURE you want to quit? i think it's so much easier than formula would be.

Aliliv

I took a week to stop.  It wasn't so bad.  I just started with replacing feeding times with bottles.   I think one replacement every day or two.   My breast were sometimes, and sometimes I self-expressed a bit of milk to help with the engorgement.    Going through it slowly really helped me and I think it helped with the baby, by getting her gradually used to formula....  I switched to Good Start and she never had problems with it.  HTH!

Pennylane824

astara:

i don't know the answer to your question/request, but are you SURE you want to quit? i think it's so much easier than formula would be.

Yes, I'm sure. DD has been in a pavlik harness for five weeks and we've had tons of issues. We find out Thursday if she has to be put in traction for a month and then casted. Between the stress and everything else I've been exclusively pumping and I hate it. I'm SURE I want to quit.

GypsyEsq

I think you need to reduce the sessions one at a time.  Depending on how many you're doing now you can probably drop one every two-three days.  Or you can try and go cold turkey and use tight sports bras and cabbage leaves to help you dry up but I don't know that I'd try that and risk mastitis on top of everything else.  GL!

margeincharge2

Pennylane824:

astara:

i don't know the answer to your question/request, but are you SURE you want to quit? i think it's so much easier than formula would be.

Yes, I'm sure. DD has been in a pavlik harness for five weeks and we've had tons of issues. We find out Thursday if she has to be put in traction for a month and then casted. Between the stress and everything else I've been exclusively pumping and I hate it. I'm SURE I want to quit.

Your LO is so cute! GL with her health issues. I can't imagine the stress you're under.

From what I've read, it seems like slowly reducing your pumping sessions would do the trick. I would just pump for comfort and proceed that way until you're not pumping at all. I wouldn't do it cold turkey because who knows what all mess that will cause. GL! 

Pennylane824

margeincharge2:

Pennylane824:

astara:

i don't know the answer to your question/request, but are you SURE you want to quit? i think it's so much easier than formula would be.

Yes, I'm sure. DD has been in a pavlik harness for five weeks and we've had tons of issues. We find out Thursday if she has to be put in traction for a month and then casted. Between the stress and everything else I've been exclusively pumping and I hate it. I'm SURE I want to quit.

Your LO is so cute! GL with her health issues. I can't imagine the stress you're under.

From what I've read, it seems like slowly reducing your pumping sessions would do the trick. I would just pump for comfort and proceed that way until you're not pumping at all. I wouldn't do it cold turkey because who knows what all mess that will cause. GL! 

Thank you so much