Breastfeeding while pregnant
Hi! I’m 9 weeks pregnant and still breastfeeding my 8-month-old, and lately I’ve been really struggling with it.
My supply is still there, but since getting pregnant I’ve become sooo much more sensitive while feeding. Nights are the hardest - he wakes up quite often and very much associates the breast with falling back asleep, so you can imagine the amount of feeding happening overnight 😅 It’s starting to create quite a bit of stress and anxiety for me around breastfeeding.
He’s been EBF until now, but I’m seriously considering introducing formula and combo feeding, especially for an evening/night feed, just to take some of the pressure off me.
Has anyone been in a similar situation — pregnant while breastfeeding a baby this age and then introduced formula? Did combo feeding help? How did your baby take to it, and did it make any difference to the night wakings?
Would really love to hear your experiences 🤍
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My daughter was 7 months when I got pregnant again, I started to wean her month 10 as I noticed my supply had dropped, however unlike yourself, we used to give her a bottle of formula most nights. She eventually started to sleep better as she also used to feed to sleep. However the issue I have now is she is 18 months old and I have a 13 week old who I EBF, my older girl keeps asking for the boob even though I weaned her off 8 months ago lol. Once I weaned her off I had a night in a hotel all by myself to sleep, relax, eat and has some me time, I would strongly recommend it, it was amazing and I will be doing it yearly! Xx
My supply was drastically plummeting while EBF and pregnant as well it took a long time to get my son to start taking formula he refused the bottle but just had to keep offering it eventually at 8 months old my supply was practically non existent I was very sad that my breastfeeding journey came to an end
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