BFing @ 10 months question2

Dstevens429 · February 2014

A is almost 10 months and my BFing goal has always been to 1 year. Can someone give me an estimate of how much breastmilk LO should be getting at this point? I have noticed a major decrease in supply when I pump @ work and am wondering if I should be giving him less now since he eats 3 meals and will be starting a snack tomorrow. I barely have a freezer supply and am worried I won't make my goal ughh. My current schedule is (times sometimes fluctuate)

6:30am - BF

8am - breakfast (usually oatmeal and/or fruit)

9:30am - 5 oz BM

12 - DC provided lunch

1:30p - 5oz BM

5pm - dinner

6ish - BF

7:30 - 8pm - BF

We are finally at 1 MOTN feeding. Working currently to eliminate it completely.

Give me you input. Am I doing to much?

Thanks in advance

srveatch · February 2014

I don't have any advice but when LO was 10 months and I was BF I had a similar schedule but A took 6-7oz at 11 and 2. I was only pumping around 4oz-6oz a day by this point so I started supplementing. We stopped nursing because she started biting and then outright refused to nurse by almost 11 months. If your supply is dropping at work I don't see any harm in supplementing. I would have continued with that if my babe hadn't stopped nursing at home.

TJ1979 · February 2014

I think 10 months is when I quit stressing, and started just sending what I pumped the day before. She was taking 12 oz in bottles at DC, and nursing 2-3 times a day. So 18-21 oz BM per day. With 3 meals and 2 snacks.

kaf7 · February 2014

I can tell you my LO is taking about 20oz of formula a day with 3 meals and one snack. I know other kids who just breastfeed 2-3 times a day and the rest of what they get is water. I wouldn't stress about your supply.

pb_bride · February 2014

I SAH and I EBF, so I can't tell you the exact amount of BM M was consuming. I nurse him on schedule. Before 10m, I was nursing him 6x/day. When he turned 10m, I dropped him to 5x/day, so it seems like that's in line with what you are doing.

CarrieB. · February 2014

At 9 mos, DD1 started sleeping through the night and my supply tanked. Stressing was making it worse, so I just pumped what I could and supplemented w formula. I contined to pump until 11 mos and kept nursing until 14 mos. I had some pretty bad PPA/PPOCD at 9 mos because of the hormone shift. Take care of yourself. You are doing a great job feeding that baby, but supplementing is fine too.

kmc84 · February 2014

It looks good to me! A is just 11 months and nurses 4-5 (sometimes 6) times a day. She also gets 3 meals and a small snack in the afternoon.

4legsRbest · February 2014

TJ1979 said:

I think 10 months is when I quit stressing, and started just sending what I pumped the day before. She was taking 12 oz in bottles at DC, and nursing 2-3 times a day. So 18-21 oz BM per day. With 3 meals and 2 snacks.

This exactly. I actually started giving H some WCM at 11 months to make up the difference. I didn't want to have to transistion him to formula, just to move him to WCM a month later.

It is totally normal for a day pumper to start having supply issues at 8-9 months.

Mnerani · February 2014

4legsRbest said was true for us.

Dragonfly1226 · February 2014

My girls are just behind your LO but I have definitely noticed that they are nursing a bit less now that they are eating three meals a day. Right now their schedule is:

7am - BF
8am - breakfast
10:30am - BF
12:00pm - lunch
1:00pm - BF
4:00pm - BF
5:30pm - dinner
6:45pm - BF
ine MOTN feeding

With DS I dropped my post lunch nursing session around this time and I plan to drop it with K&A at 9 months. Between 9-12 months they are transitioning from drinkers to eaters so it is natural for them to drink less as they get more food.

Dstevens429 · February 2014

Thank you everyone for your help I feel much better

mcgeeva · February 2014

At 11 months DS was down to 16 oz of milk a day. He was getting bm milk with his breakfast and bm for lunch and water with dinner but bm in a bottle right before bed. I had cut our the middle of the night feeding at 11 months ( my middle of the night feeding fell at 5 am - he bf for 5 mins and pass back out) so I just cut it out. My supply majorly dropped so about 1.5 weeks before he turned a year I quit pumping all together and used my stash to mix with whole milk and we made it to a year. Good luck! Kudos to you for still going!

Oh just want to add..my son cut back on his milk intake because he has always been a big eater. So he was eating a ton by then and didn't need as much milk. He kinda of self weaned I guess you put it?

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