breastfeeding only at night?
my son is 4 months old and i have been nursing him exclusively, i returned to work about a month ago to make ends meet. if i could i would stay home with him but its not an options. anyway, he gets a bottle while i’m at work and sometimes he gets formula.
about a week ago he started refusing to nurse during the day, he will only nurse at night, so during the day he now gets a bottle of formula which he has to hold all by myself hence his independence… he wont let us hold it he gets mad. but my question is, is there a way i can train my body to only produce milk at night? i want to keep nursing him and he prefers bottle in the day and nursing at night. I just don’t want to have to pump during the day. and has anyone else heard of babies doing this? He is also starting to teeth idk if that means anything either.
That should be fine. I asked my lactation consultant the exact same question. She said as long as I breastfeed at least 3-4 times a night I shouldn’t have any problems. I have to wake my daughter up to feed or just pump at night when she sleeps through. I just use the pumped milk in a bottle the next day. Your supply will stay up during the normal times you nurse. But eventually you will lose most of it during the daytime. I did this for 3 months.
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