Pediatrician Says Stop Breastfeeding at Six Months

“We have an 11month old girl she is doing great however she is barely eating food. She only wants to do breastfeeding, my wife doesnt mind to much but it worries me a little. The only real food she likes is yogurt, anything else she fiddles with and sometimes eats a little but only a token amount. What would your advice be, I see this normal and what can we do? submitted by /u/Gilgalat [link] [comments]”

“I’ve been EBF my 10.5 month old her whole life. I know I don’t have a supply issue because she’s pretty big and has solely had my milk up until we started solids — and that’s been very slow going with purées that she sometimes doesn’t eat. However the few instances I’ve tried pumping, I never seem to get much at all. It wasn’t really a huge concern as I’ve been at home on mat leave and am always here to feed my baby. I am planning on stopping around a year but very very slowly so I feel like it’”

“My baby is 4 mo, and we got the “ok” to start solids. The Dr recommended doing rice cereal, which no shade to anyone who does that, but I have not busted my butt to provide breastmilk just to have her first food have no nutritional value. I plan to do Baby Led Weaning, but I believe 4 months is far too soon to start that. Has anyone started purées with their 4mo old? I’m talking mixing some avocado w/ breastmilk and putting it on a tether just so she can start to get the taste. Thoughts? Opinion”

“My baby is 10 months old and EBF. She’s had formula a handful of times but barely. She goes to daycare and has up to 15 bottles of breastmilk there a week. I can’t pump enough to keep up with what she drinks / they waste there, so they’re officially about to use the rest of our freezer stash. We need to start supplementing with formula but I don’t know what kind to get. Can anyone guide me? Or maybe just tell me what works for you and how you found out? We have the ready to drink ones but I have”

“My son did great with purees at 6-7 months. At 8-9 months we moved to solids/mashed foods and he was doing well eating egg, meat, veggies chewing and swallowing maybe 7/10 times. Now at 10 months feels like he's regressed : he takes food, chews it, then pushes it out with his tongue, picks it back up, puts it in his mouth again, and repeats basically never swallowing unless it's banana. Banana he eats with zero struggle. Raspberries too, actually. But egg and other foods have gone from s”

“To preface, I have always had a low milk supply. I have pretty much always had to supplement as baby became failure to thrive when I tried to EBF. I am 5 months post partum. My acne is taking a toll on me. I have had issues with acne for 17 years, so as you can imagine, I have tried everything. Dermatologists last resort said I could try birth control. BC has been the only thing to actually clear majority of my acne. So obviously, my dilemma. I am breastfeeding but supplementing. I am completely”

“Hello, FTM here and just wondering if this is normal! Baby is 11 months and EBF, no bottles. She eats solids really well and eats 3 meals a day now. She night weaned herself at 9 months. I noticed lately she is refusing the last feed of the day, which is after dinner and about 30 mins before bedtime. I do nurse her on demand and she asks to nurse about every 1-2 hrs when awake. These are short feeds. I would love to hear what others have experienced, if this is a normal part of the weaning proce”

“My LO is about 16 weeks old and has primarily been nursed. My supply has been pretty good. He has been eating every 2.5-3 hours, which equals 6-7x/day, and currently sleeps through most the night (10:30pm to anywhere from 5:30-7:00am; I know this may change with the 4-month regression). He has a good amount of diapers per day. The issue - He used to nurse for about 15-20 minutes, but he has recently seemed done after 10 minutes and I really don't want my supply to tank. Is this normal (nursi”

“6.5 month old 95% breastfed baby (gets an occasional formula bottle when I’m short from what I’ve pumped at work). He nurses when I’m home and gets bottles when I’m working (3 days/week) At 3-5 months old he would sleep 4-5 hour stretches not every night, but several nights a week. Sometimes even a 6 hour stretch if we were lucky. No more. Last night fed to sleep by 9, but then up at 11:30 and will nurse for half an hour and go back to sleep. Rinse and repeat. Up at 2, up at 4, up at 6:30. He ea”

“My 10 month old loves water and always has water with her food and sips throughout the day. She is usually only nursing about 4-5x/day now (morning, before each of 2 naps, and at bedtime +overnight). I have a 250+ oz freezer stash and I was thawing a bit of milk today since I'm leaving overnight tonight for work. She's eating lunch right now and I poured some cold milk in a straw cup and she was chugging it! I was surprised because I tried a few months ago and she didn't really go fo”

“Hi, I’m 25 weeks pregnant and am making plans for feeding my little one! For reference I have an older baby but he was basically EFF from birth due to medical issues but I have some experience pumping. With this new baby, I’m now a SAHM and would like to almost exclusively feed from the breast, but my husband likes to also be involved and so I’d like to keep a small stash of expressed milk for him to feed from bottles. I’m wondering what exactly this looks like in a practical sense? Would I just”

“Hi, we have a 10-month-old girl who started solids at 5 months under our doctor’s guidance. About a month ago, we stopped giving her purées and have been gradually introducing more textured foods. Her daily feeding schedule currently looks like this: Early morning: Direct breastfeeding Around 9:00 a.m.: Cereal mixed with breast milk and another ingredient, such as homemade nut paste Around 12:00–1:00 p.m.: Lunch consisting of vegetables, protein, and carbohydrates Around 4:00 p.m.: Fruit mixed w”

“Looking for maybe some other moms going through this or that have been through this. We have been working with a feeding therapist for a month now (LO is almost 17 weeks) on taking a bottle. The most we have progressed to is taking 1/2 ounce, but it still takes 20 minutes. Every once in a while he’ll take 1 ounce but that’s a lot of starting and stopping the bottle. We’ve tried everything. I go back to work next month and his feeding therapist is introducing straw cups to him now because she is”

“I was recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism, apparently it was dormant and came out with the latest blood test 5 and a half months post partum. I'm EBF and realised I might have had a drop in supply the last few weeks and now I know the causes. I texted the pediatrician asking for advice on how to handle it cause I'm breastfeeding and I wanted to know if the medication would improve or affect supply, she called me right away telling me that I ruined and stressed my body by breastfeeding”

“anyone have any data not just from mainstream (skeptical because we've experienced as well as others negative results in the past from). Any truth would be greatly appreciated. my wife likes processed stuff but we have healthy snacks and homemade dinners. it's the night time sweets after 8 which we know is bad. submitted by /u/FCMOBILEONTARIO [link] [comments]”

“I was over at my MILs house Monday and pumped and left a bottle there for my son to have when he went over today while I'm at work. I was told she threw out the milk because "it was curdling and going bad" and it was literally just the fat in it solidifying/making a fat plug 😵‍💫 I'm glad I always take extra milk over there and send him with a bottle, but that's a whole perfectly good bottle just gone 😭 submitted by /u/aringabriel [link] [comments]”