I am crying as I type this! I am really struggling with b/f my DS2. DS1 was very sick and so I expressed full time for a year and he had my milk down a tube in his nose. DS2 is big and healthy and I really expected to get at least to 12 months. DS2 was hard to feed in the beginning with bad attachment and really damaged nipples and of course mastitis by day 7 but we got the hang of it eventually.

Can anyone tell me if this is weaning or a difficult feeding phase? DS2 had been feeding well until a month ago (6 months + 1 day) when he found staring at my boobs just too boring = he demonstrated this by not feeding from me for 12hours while we were out. SO we moved our daytime feeds to being at home, and around sleep times. Then it was only while going to sleep or waking up and only in our bed. Now he has progressed to only when asleep and if awake will BITE me hard and be fussy and pull away. This biting has been going on for a week. And now he is getting upper teeth as well as the bottom ones so I am scared stiff about him doing me some serious damage.

I have expressed for a while and has a great stash in the freezer (2.180 litres) which I had to give away as it turns out my baby's eczema is related to dairy and so he and i are both off it. So now I am down to zero back up and stressed and guess what - supply seems to be reducing. I have tried a sippy cup of EBM and he will take that.

I dont want to stop but I dont want to be dictating to my DS when he can stop too. Isnt it supposed to be baby led?

Help...bit stressed...thanks,

Rachel