Nursing

At 15 weeks old, I'm surprised that he is still nursing.

Breast feeding was a painful experience for me. I was very worried about breastfeeding before he was born. For some reason, this was my biggest fear. Luckily, Will latched on right away, and has been gaining weight steadily the entire time. But, he had a tongue tie that made nursing very painful, and even though I saw the lactation specialist a bunch of times, it didn't really help. The only thing that helped was time. I think he finally figured it out, I finally relaxed, and everything has been working out. It took until probably 2-2.5 months before this happened.

I remember thinking at 6 weeks, "if only I can make it to 3 months". For some reason 3 months was the time in my mind that I could wean him and be happy about it. However, here we are at 15 weeks, still going strong. He does get one formula bottle a day, so that a) he is used to a bottle, b), so that my nipples could get a break, and c), so that someone else can feed him if I am working, or needed a break.

I'm unsure when I will introduce another bottle to him. I'm worried about losing my supply. I don't think I'm ready for that yet.