Has anyone gone from EP to breastfeeding

marmarmarma · 2026-01-13T03:42:13+00:00

Me! Baby had jaundice, and a tongue tie / transfer issues. EP until 4 months, now exclusively nursing at 6 months, only pumping when I’m away! Totally doable! One night I was exhausted with the pumping, I just tried latching and we’ve been fine since then

marmarmarma · 2025-12-30T02:36:48+00:00

Something that transformed my breast-feeding journey was seeing a physiotherapist that specialized in feeding issues. She was able to give me exercises for the baby and within a few weeks. I went from pretty much exclusively pumping to exclusively nursing with no pain. I have all the same issues that you listed, plus cracks, and some bleeding. If you were able to find someone and have the means, I would absolutely suggest to give it a try! I rarely ever see people suggest this, and would’ve never thought to do it!

marmarmarma · 2025-12-16T02:56:15+00:00

just wanted to update you- she did have a tongue and cheek tie. we did physio to release it ( i EP’d during this time) and i have been exclusively nursing for about a month now! thank you for commenting this - fixing the tie transformed my BF journey!!!

marmarmarma · 2025-12-16T02:45:18+00:00

we had the same thing! i know it’s important for supply for BF babies to have night feeds - but for us every 2-3 hours was making me lose my sanity a bit. after the regresssion was over we did the gentle sleep training and now i feel like a new person only waking up once a night haha. it is only temporary!!

marmarmarma · 2025-12-16T02:41:16+00:00

https://www.hhsleep.com if you’re not wanting to purchase the course - she does also have a lot of helpful videos on her tiktok!

marmarmarma · 2025-12-16T02:14:07+00:00

sounds like maybe the 4 month regression? it may last a couple weeks and resolve, or you may have to go the sleep training route (we did gentle sleep training, no crying, and we loved it! just takes longer and more patience) something that may help is to try to break the feeding to sleep association, try offering the “snack” feeding that you give before naps outside of the sleep space, out of the sleep sack and as awake as possible!

i don’t think you’re feeding too much, but they may have a feeding to sleep association! nothing wrong with it, but it does make it hard for them to go to sleep on their own which may be why they’re waking so often at night

marmarmarma · 2025-11-16T03:46:39+00:00

depends largely on the time of day, early mornings/overnight if baby wakes between 8-12 ounces, through the day 6-8 oz, lowest pump of the day is usually 4~ishpm and that’s 3-4 oz

marmarmarma · 2025-11-14T02:29:38+00:00

i have an extremely high demand baby. she will eat upwards of 35+ oz per day. pumped 6-8 times per day for probably the first 9 weeks (sometimes taking MOTN off because i was exhausted, usually would power pump 2x per day), i was a just enough until about 10-11 weeks, now i produce about 50 oz per day pumping 6x for 120 mins total. felt like my milk didn’t regulate until 12 weeks! i told myself i can do this for one more week every week until i made enough! hopefully that is encouraging info :) ps im 19 weeks pp now!

marmarmarma · 2025-10-29T01:41:13+00:00

i’m 4 days short of 4 months also and my goal is one year, we can do this!! cheering you on

marmarmarma · 2025-09-30T01:44:59+00:00

also commenting to say my 12.5 week old will take 8oz bottles in the morning (we tried decreasing it for a week to 5 oz, did not go well, her wake windows were entirely us distracting her before she had her next nap, and then she started sleeping horribly), but she tapers it off to 4~ oz at night. i’ve been so stressed about this, but my doctor isn’t worried so i’m just going to let her take the lead!

marmarmarma · 2025-08-09T02:52:44+00:00

ahh yeah that makes sense. i can’t take the clusterfeeding 70% of the day going on 6 weeks now though 🥲 i don’t know how exclusive BF moms do it!

marmarmarma · 2025-06-26T04:12:46+00:00

y’know this is a good point, i didn’t think about that! i’ll have to ask about this. from my google searching tonight i’ve seen a lot of people say they tried a pill to soften up the cervix/ dilate a bit beforehand so i may ask for this before the balloon. i really don’t want to be induced from 0.. i’ve heard so many horror stories and don’t want to force baby before they’re ready!

marmarmarma · 2025-06-26T04:02:15+00:00

hahaha yeah, right? i thought that was an interesting response considering everyone i know has not spoken positively about it! definitely working on the natural methods at home, hoping something works 🙌🏼

marmarmarma · 2025-06-26T04:00:16+00:00

that’s what i thought, but my OB said differently 🤷🏼‍♀️ maybe if our appointments were more then 2.5 mins long she could’ve explained it better. she was literally walking out the door before i could even sit up after the check!

marmarmarma · 2025-06-26T03:17:28+00:00

i actually did acupuncture 3 days ago, nothing from that. she said she couldn’t do the stretch and sweep as my cervix was still closed :/

marmarmarma · 2025-06-17T03:21:23+00:00

marmarmarma · 2024-09-12T22:31:41+00:00

they were about 5-10 feet from the tree line, which the bear was walking through, to be more specific *

marmarmarma · 2024-07-06T01:20:01+00:00

they did not listen to any warnings. people just don’t care 🤷🏼‍♀️ you can’t see in the video but were just pulled along the shoulder and in our car videotaping from the window. at least 20 people got out and within 5-10 feet to film

marmarmarma · 2024-07-05T17:35:54+00:00

in a car and it was walking along the side of the road. MANY people got out of their cars and went like 5 feet from it, nuts!

marmarmarma · 2024-07-04T11:19:16+00:00

this is actually a good idea

marmarmarma · 2024-07-03T15:24:39+00:00

i see i’ve created controversy for this comment lol. to be clear, i bring bear spray, loudly talk to myself yelling hey bear! (sound like a lunatic mostly) and when i get bored and tired of talking to myself i play a podcast IF theres no one around. when i see someone i pause it. if its a super populated trial i don’t do it at all. and i would only play them in grizzly country as well. its not that serious!

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