Breastfeeding and Solid foods?

Question

Currently my son in 5 months and is drinking breastmilk and stage 1 foods/rice cereal. I am solely pumping (unable to latch on--breastfeeding n**i's) and my milk supply is ok but sometimes I am unable to pump 7 oz every 4 hrs (i usually pump 5 every 4 hrs). At what age does he start shifting to more solid foods and less on breasmilk or less often (<4hrs)?? I would LOVE to have him drink only breastmilk but I'm worried about being able to catch up to him

Answer 1

Why don&#039;t you try to pump every 3 hours and pump dry for at least 5 minutes to send a message to your body your need more!  Your body will make it, don&#039;t worry.  That is how your baby would send the message to your body.  I know pumping is hard.  I tried and I could not do it.  I was doing everything pretty much on my own and let me tell you exculsively pumping is not for the single mom!  I congratulate you on making it to 5 months.. I only made it 3 weeks.  :-(

Answer 2

Breast milk (or formula) should be the main source of nutrition for the first YEAR. There&#039;s not really a magic number of when a baby starts nursing less. It happens gradually. But at a year you can start giving whole milk. My son is almost ten months old and he&#039;s just now starting to get more interested in eating. Good for you for sticking with pumping! It&#039;s much harder than breastfeeding straight from the tap.

Have you read kellymom.com about pumping and supply?

They have some good stuff.

http://www.kellymom.com/bf/pumping/index...