weaning?
Today my almost 10 month old decided that after his first feeding this morning that he would not breastfeed from me anytime I try.
I have been going through this for the last two weeks or so. Davis has been on a nursing strike. I started worrying and giving him formula (I'm unable to pump anything now) which made things worse. I spoke to my lactation consultant and she said self weaning isn't usually done this early. She told me it's super unusual for a baby to wean under 12 months, and usually won't wean until 18-24 months (on their own). I stopped offering formula and continued trying to nurse.. I know this sounds bad but I had to keep him distracted so he would stay latched so I would let him watch tv while we nursed. Now he's starting to nurse again like he was before 4-5 times a day. So my advice is to just try your best to continue to nurse and distract him if you can.
That's what happened to me. I'm a teacher, when I went back to work after summer, i wasn't pumping nearly enough. Since he was getting a bottle more, he was getting mad when I would try to nurse. He just kept popping off, I checked and there was milk right there, so I think it was just because he wasn't getting it fast enough. He started nursing less and less, which then my pumped supply when down even more. We made it to 8 months breastfeeding, and 8.5 months supplementing, and now at nine months he's just on formula. Pretty much he just weaned himself and preferred the flow of the bottle better.
Thanks ladies.
I just don't understand how he could go like 7 or so hours in between eating and not even attempting to latch on to eat when I try about 3 hours after and so on.
He did the same again tonight. Went from 2pm or so when I gave him the 2oz I could pump then another 4oz of formula and he's just now eating again at almost 7:30 and didn't want to eat when I tried at 4:30 and didn't cry to eat or anything. Not sure I'd that makes sense or not