DS3 is one next week and after nearly severing my nipple with his biting antics, I'm keen to stop breastfeeding. I've been bfing or pregnant for 6 years and I've had enough.
He's refused several makes of formula and different bottles/beakers/cups whenever I've tried (since birth, with expressed milk). And he's got little appetite for food. He just wants me .
He was very ill last week with bronchillitis and had to be hospitalised, so went back to being like a newborn, wanting to feed only from me, and sleep only in my arms.
He's better now, but after biting viciously on my nipples several times this week, I decided to make him got cold turkey while the wounds heal. Since Friday, I've been offering him plenty of food through the day (some eaten, most hurled on the floor) and DH has been bottle-feeding him expressed milk.
He resists furiously and sometimes glugs when exhausted, but rarely takes more than 60ml. Then he wakes every 90 minutes through the night. Dh has been shushing and patting.
We're all a bit exhausted, Dh is in bed with a migraine, and tonight DS3 hasn't had any supper nor drunk any expressed milk. He's bound to wake in a bit.
Shall I:
a) cave in and feed him because he's obviously hungry and still recovering (thus wasting our efforts and risk losing my nipple altogether!).
b) continue to refuse him the breast, to ensure he's properly hungry in the morning and takes some real food.
Can't see the wood for the trees at the moment. I'd really appreciate some advice.
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Violetroses · 09/12/2012 20:06
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