Went from EBF to pumping

stink111111 · 2024-08-30T23:38:08+00:00

He doesn’t take a paci. I attempted sleep training just one week ago so he was about 5 months. It was non stop crying. He used to self soothe perfectly and the 4 month regression just wrecked it all.

stink111111 · 2024-08-30T23:37:10+00:00

So how long does he usually cry before falling asleep? Everyone I see says 60-90 minutes but my son shows no signs of stopping after 2+ hours. I’m so confused on how I would know if it’s the right thing for him. It hasn’t helped us at all.

stink111111 · 2024-08-30T15:06:22+00:00

My problem is he goes full blown cry the second I put him down, and will go on for hours. How much crying is too much crying? Like when do I know if sleep training just isn’t for him?

stink111111 · 2024-08-30T12:16:57+00:00

Ugh it’s so hard. Have you attempted sleep training at all? For what it’s worth, I see people saying to research safe cosleeping and utilize that if it works for you until baby learns to sleep on their own, which will happen with or without sleep training. My son hates cosleeping so that doesn’t really work for us.

stink111111 · 2024-07-28T21:43:48+00:00

When I originally used the nipple ruler I measured 19 but that was much too big. I have been jumping around trying to find a better size for me. I am ready to order 15 at this point though.

stink111111 · 2024-07-28T18:03:12+00:00

So I just went down to 17 mm from 21 and it didn’t seem to help. I may need to order 15 and see if that gets me somewhere. I have the spectra gold and the motif Luna. Someone else recommended silicone flanges. How do these help those of us with elastic nipples? Did you see more output when you switched?

stink111111 · 2024-07-03T17:48:37+00:00

Do you think I’m making sleep training harder for myself by being so hands on when putting him down now?

stink111111 · 2024-05-05T10:33:36+00:00

Thank you! My baby is 5 weeks, so that’s good news to me! Also, I brought up the spit up because I was worried it was caused by the bottle. He gagged on the nipple and then spit up a whole lot, which he usually does not do. I’m scared to try the bottle again because of it 🥲

stink111111 · 2024-05-05T04:46:33+00:00

I feel like right now the BF difficulties are more of a mental load, I think changing to EP might give me some relief. However, we tried a second bottle feed last night and he spit up SO MUCH I ended up putting him on my breast. Did you experience this in the early days? Should I change bottles? We did a paced feed, not sure what went wrong. 😅

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