Hi all,

I have made the decision to stop breastfeeding. My boy has a tounge tie and severly damaged my nipples so badly that for the last 2 weeks I have been expressing my milk and feeding him via the bottle with formula in between as I cant keep up with his eating! He is thriving and put on 300g in 3 days!!

Now the problem im having is that I am complelety exhausting myself by expressing as by the time I feed him from the bottle put him down then express, I have about 45 mins to sleep. I really feel that I cannot physially nor emotionally do this any more. I have been going to the breastfeedig clinic at the hosptial who have been great and I managed to get him back on the boob two days ago and need to slowly get him back on one feed a day until nipples are better. The problem I have is that when I go there I feel pressured to keep this up so im too scared to ask them how I go about stopping my milk and just putting him on forumla now.

Ive heard that I just skip on expressing a day then increase it to two - is that right?/ But what about mastitis? Ive just spent 2 days expressing a lump out of my boob to avoid this. HELP!!!

My son is 2.5 weeks old. I have to change my ticker!!