I've just got back from taking Kai
to the baby clinic and he's lost weight, he was 13lb last week, and this
week he's down to 12lb 13oz. I could cry!!
I thought that I'd done with all this weight dropping and worry after he lost loads at three weeks and had to go into hospital. A few weeks ago I decided to try and phase out his top ups, which I was doing but hadn't managed totally yet - he's down to 2oz a feed and 4oz at night, and he has loads of time at the breast now. I just feel really low, and despite my best efforts it really looks like the end might be in sight for the old breast milk. I just feel so bad every time I give him formula, and now it looks like that might be all he's getting! I know that if I go back to offering him more, then he will no longer be interested in breast milk.
The worst thing is I was convinced he was going to have put on loads, he's such a happy, lively, sociable baby and he feels very heavy to me!! So when the weight showed on the scales I just felt terrible. Sorry don't want to go on, should try and focus on the fact that he does seem to lively and happy and that at least I've managed to feed him for this long.
I finally admitted defeat when Kai was just shy of six months, he clearly wasn't interested in breastfeeding any longer, I wasn't even sure that he was taking any at that point.
I was worried that second time around wasn't going to be any easier, and in some ways it wasn't. Mahe is a long baby, but very light, he has always been on the edge of being a cause for concern, weight wise, but here we are, at just over seven months, and still breastfeeding. What's more he didn't start solids until six months, and he's never so much as looked at a bottle of formula.
It's not easy for everyone, this breastfeeding lark, but I'm so pleased to be able to say, that for me at least, second time round was much better.
I thought that I'd done with all this weight dropping and worry after he lost loads at three weeks and had to go into hospital. A few weeks ago I decided to try and phase out his top ups, which I was doing but hadn't managed totally yet - he's down to 2oz a feed and 4oz at night, and he has loads of time at the breast now. I just feel really low, and despite my best efforts it really looks like the end might be in sight for the old breast milk. I just feel so bad every time I give him formula, and now it looks like that might be all he's getting! I know that if I go back to offering him more, then he will no longer be interested in breast milk.
The worst thing is I was convinced he was going to have put on loads, he's such a happy, lively, sociable baby and he feels very heavy to me!! So when the weight showed on the scales I just felt terrible. Sorry don't want to go on, should try and focus on the fact that he does seem to lively and happy and that at least I've managed to feed him for this long.
I finally admitted defeat when Kai was just shy of six months, he clearly wasn't interested in breastfeeding any longer, I wasn't even sure that he was taking any at that point.
I was worried that second time around wasn't going to be any easier, and in some ways it wasn't. Mahe is a long baby, but very light, he has always been on the edge of being a cause for concern, weight wise, but here we are, at just over seven months, and still breastfeeding. What's more he didn't start solids until six months, and he's never so much as looked at a bottle of formula.
It's not easy for everyone, this breastfeeding lark, but I'm so pleased to be able to say, that for me at least, second time round was much better.
