MantaRay - wow, thanks for letting me know! i had tried weaning without the drugs but each time i tried to drop a feed i very quickly developed mastitis and/or blocked ducs. this was after massaging the lumps, hot and cold compresses and expressing for comfort. Feeding was incredibly stressful as my dd would be screaming and I would be crying trying to get her to feed. I am sure the stress was not helping things and my hormones felt all over the place. I had seen lactation consultants through the baby health centre, also at the private hosp where I had my DD and then at tresillian but none was able to get her feeding properly again once she associated me with pain. Now almost 3 years on, It is even more obvious just how much pain and suffering my dd was in from the reflux. She has just had an endoscopy but they didn't see any cause for her ongoing reflux so back to square one. We are now weaning really slowly off the meds again and then when symptoms return she will have another endoscope.

This time round my son started on neocate formula you get on prescription, He has reflux too (though not as bad) but I did not want to go through all the things we went through with my dd. It was a really hard decision to stop breastfeeding but I was heading full steam ahead into PND (again) and having a baby crying after every feed is just an awful feeling. I weaned over 3 weeks from week 6-9 and didn't take any drugs as I was so sick last time and was scared too. My supply was still big this time but not like it was 1st time round. My bb's were never rock hard and massive like the first time. Weird cause my son was a much more efficient feeder and didn't have pain association like my dd did.

This time I was able to miss a feed and just express when uncomfortable and slowly was able to stop.