I recently decided that I needed more than 4 - 5 hours of broken sleep to be able to continue to function on any remotely-human-like level. I adjusted my pumping schedule of six 30 min sessions so that I only have to wake up once in the middle of the night, mostly for comfort and since LO wakes up about then for a bottle anyway. Its only been 2 nights of this and already my supply is dwindling rather rapidly. LO is 19 weeks (see ticker below I guess for exact age) so we've had a pretty good run on BM only but I'm struggling with A) desperately needing sleep really want my boobs back and C) feeling super guilty about not being able to continue providing LO with the "perfect" food. We have talked about how expensive formula is and how much money we're saving with me EPing since BFing didn't really work for us but I never get time with DH, the girls are so sensitive that if he even looks at them or I think about my milk, it will drop (sooo painful) and I make a mess.
Anyone else switch from BM to formula or start supplementing with formula recently? Any tips?
Re: pumping vs. sleeping
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DD#1 December '12
DD#2 New Year's Baby '15
Married 07/09
I will try to answer all the questions....
1) I used to get away with 15 - 20 min pumps but every time i dropped a session i had to increase the time or lose supply =( no idea why
2) BFing didn't work because LO "chews" his food and e