7 months and distractible - down to 5am feed from one breast :)

[Baby Dreamtime]

DS has just gone 7 months, for the last at least 3 he has been the ever distractable baby, I have twin girls at 3 and they are running around screaming and laughing and jumping all over us, part of me is surprised I lasted as long as I did. For the past month he has been so distracted as to feed for a minute or two, or literally 10 sucks. I was originally only topping up at 6:30pm and formula feeding at 10pm, first expressing same time then dropped that. So in the space of a week I went from ok feeds of 5ish minutes to hardly any at all ie 11am was 5 sucks. He refused the left as it was not as full or did not let down as quick. I bit the bullet and swapped to formula, breasts coped ok as he wasn't feeding so well anyway. I was then down to 6.30pm and about 5am BF. Since he won't feed at 6:30 pm either.

So my question is, I have done about 5 days of 5am feeds from one breast only . How much longer can this last realistically? I love BF and don't want to give it up if he will take it.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated, thank so much.

[lady_neon]

I'm not sure if this answers your question entirety, but demand = supply. Personally, I'd maybe express from the other side after he is done, you don't want uneven boobs lol

[Baby Dreamtime]

Lady Neon, thanks for your reply, so can I assume if he is ok with one boob once a day, I might still have the milk to supply even at this very low level? Not keen on expressing as I have done that (seems endlessly for the girls and him also) and he hasn't been the best sleeper (is only just now doing 10:30pm to about 4-5am ish) and am enjoying the extra sleep. Will hold a ceremony to throw my pump in the bin lol. xx

[onthefly]

Sounds like maybe he has responded to the drop in supply by feeding less, resulting in a further decrease in supply. It's quite possible he'll happily take the breast at that time even if there's nothing there - do you feel you have much milk then? Do you hear him swallowing? If he's getting formula and not demanding any other feeds then there probably isn't a great deal there, but it's hard to say really.
That's great to be getting some sleep! Totally understandable that you've had enough of the pump, too. That must be hard work.