I know I missed a month, so I am going to skip to 9 months.
The past two months have brought a lot of changes for my baby. He’s now crawling all over the place and pulling up. He eats a ton of solid food now too. He’s a bottomless pit.
The development keeps coming faster and faster.
As for breastfeeding, we are definitely in a hard place. I want to continue, and I want him to get the benefits of breastmilk (especially during the cold/flu season) but his attention span for nursing is about zero, and my supply has gone down dramatically.
My baby nurses well when he is sleepy, but if he’s awake, he wants to look around and has no interest.
He does eat a lot of solids (we’re even on finger foods now) and he sometimes doesn’t even finish his 4.5 ounce bottles at daycare.
We also started supplementing. He gets a formula bottle at bedtime. With my questionable supply, I feel better knowing how much he got, and it’s a little easier to get him to focus on the bottle. He still won’t take much more than 4 ounces. I also have tried to give him at least one formula bottle during the day on the weekends to supplement nursing. I am just worried he’s not getting much when he nurses.
I dropped to pumping twice a day at work, and only get between 4 and 7 ounces total. Sometimes less. That is just so depressing. I think I could stop pumping and my milk would dry up. I also pump before I go to bed, to help get more milk for the next day, but the third bottle he takes during the day is either frozen milk or formula. Something is better than nothing for now.
I keep telling myself I am ok with supplementing (and I am) but I know in the back of my head each bottle feeding needs to be replaced with me pumping.
At this point whatever happens happens. I am scared though that we will stop nursing, and I won’t realize the last time he nurses is the last time (if that makes sense.)
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