Hey Lara Bug,
Monday I made the difficult decision to stop expressing breast milk for you.
Unfortunately, you and I never really managed the whole breastfeeding thing. You wouldn’t latch without crying after a couple of sucks. I would then feel useless because you wouldn’t latch on. It was identified at birth that you had a tongue-tie, which meant that stringy bit under your tongue wasn’t long enough to allow you to latch on properley, but even after you had that cut, things were no better. It was found that you were a lazy feeder. As we were used to feeding from the bottle, you had become accustomed to getting your milk straight away, where as with me, you had to wait a few seconds for my milk to come through – you didn’t like it.
We made the decision to pump my breastmilk into bottles and feed you that way. As the weeks went on, the amount I expressed got less and less. I tried allsorts of things to increase my production. Nothing helped.
At our 6 week check, I spoke to the Doctor regarding stopping, and he said it wasn’t recommended, and I was potentially causing harm to your immunity. After chatting with your Daddy, I decided to stop, mainly due to the stress of expressing, and how it was affecting me physically and mentally.
Love you loads,
Mummy x