We cut out afternoon nursing a couple of weeks ago as it was just too iffy with me getting home from work about half an hour after Ant would get hungry, and then if he was fed, impossible for me to pump while taking care of him. So that was switched to formula.
Recently, I've still been nursing him mid morning, and pumping at work, but my production has dropped from ~5 ounces to just about 2. Not enough to feed him, he usually takes around 4oz. So I had very seriously been considering dropping that feed too. Then yesterday I tried to nurse him after his morning nap, he took one suck and then wanted to play. So I took that as a signal to switch to formula, and in fact he was perfectly happy taking it out of a sippy cup. So hopefully we can make the bottle to cup transition nice and smooth too.
The biggest bonus - no more pumping at work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I found the bottle to sippy transition pretty easy. Once I knew they could drink from a sippy I just never gave them another bottle and they've been fine. Though they didn't get many bottles in the first place so that may have helped.
What a relief for you! That is definitely a good sign of things to come...
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