so last saturday lily didn't sleep for more than half an hour straight in the night... she had a fever of 101.2 and had stomach pains... we thought this was just a reaction to her shots and since it was the weekend we didn't want to take her to the emergency room (for the second time in a week) so we waited it out... after the second night of no sleep i took her to her doctor and found out she had an ear infection, so they gave her an antibiotic. she's doing alot better... didn't sleep well last night but besides that shes been sleeping well.
as i've mentioned several times I've never had any extra breast milk.... well during this sick ordeal its taken a drastic turn to basically no milk. i started supplementing lily on soy fomula a couple of days ago. i didn't realize how little milk i had until yesterday. i breastfed lily at about 7 am .. then bottle fed her the rest of the day... at about 3:30 i pumped until i was drained and only got 4 ounces. so i feel like at least i gave it my best shot... i still nurse her a couple of times a day but that's all i have to give. i plan to have her completelt off breast feeding before we go to NC this summer. she is taking the change quite well. (seth is actually putting her down for a nap right now with a bottle). i think its harder on me than her, last night on lost when claire's house got blown up and i thought her was dead and aaron was crying... i almost cried.. anyway thats all. seth is back without lily so success.. i'm going now
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Dude, making it this far breastfeeding is definitely an accomplishment! Those first 6 or so months is when it's most important, at least in my opinion. I never had the lack of milk problem...always had way too much. It'll definitely make it a lot easier on all of you now that Seth can help with her a bit more. I always felt so trapped when the only way to get Rae to sleep was with nursing, so we worked on that a lot with Blaise at the beginning. Anyway, good luck this week and I hope things keep getting better. Oh, and what was she in the emergency room for earlier this week?
Oh yeah, the milk reaction, n/m
6 months is great! And yes, it is nice to use a bottle, hubbys can help and they sleep longer... ahhh!
Also, don't forget that how much you pump is absolutely no indication of how much milk is in there! I could never pump very much. Sorry things have been so sucky!
i can pump dry enough that lily can't get anything out afterwards... thats what i did this time... i got them dry.. it took a long time too. anyway shes doin well on formula
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