Someone please tell me how to stop BF
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@Ella oh do they!! That’s really helpful, thank you so much xx
@Meg sorry not to be able to help more. It sounds like a really difficult situation! I breastfed my first baby until she was 17 months and I was completely ready to be done at 16 months, when she was only having 1 or 2 feeds a day, but took about a month to stop completely and it's really hard to do when you don't want to anymore. I imagine it's especially if they're younger so need feeding so many times a day. I hope you can get some support xx
@Meg has she ever taken a bottle well? I haven't actually tried with my August baby since he was about 2 weeks old 😬 but my daughter would have a bottle sometimes no problem, but would always refuse if she was teething. Apparently people find the cheap own brand bottles are more likely to be accepted by bf babies, or lansinoh I think but I haven't tried them personally x
I know some people choose to do a night away from baby in a hope that they will eventually take a bottle if they’re hungry enough x
@Claudia I’ve heard this too, it wouldn’t be possible for us unfortunately. She quite literally pushes away from her dad and screams and screams until I settle her myself 💔
@Ella thank you for your suggestion! We have tried sooo many bottles, cheap and expensive and she’s never really taken to any of them. Atm I can get her to take the nuk perfect match and/or the mam bottles whereas when she was very young, she wouldn’t take anything whatsoever so we are getting somewhere with it - it’s making the switch that I don’t understand how to do when I feed on demand but formula fed babies don’t get fed on demand the same way. I may just have to carry on until she’s 1 🫣 thank you 🥹 Xx
Have you tried bottle feeding expressed milk rather than formula? The taste is so very different, and they will always prefer the boob to formula because it's what they are used to and at the perfect temperature. My LO goes to nursery now, and I express milk for him. He drinks 3 x 150ml bottles at nursery (higher fat content in breast milk compared to formula so they drink less) and has the boob when not there. Obviously you need to put yourself and your mental health first so contacting you HV for help as already mentioned could help
@Lucy hey! Yeah I’ve tried pumping for a long time now, unfortunately it ends up down the sink most of the time 🥲
It'd probably be worth getting in contact with your health visitor and seeing if they can refer you to the infant feeding team or, if you can afford it, getting in contact with a lactation consultant, as they help with things like this, not just getting going with breastfeeding xx