BF and weaning
We haven't started solids yet as i want to wait til 6 months, which is 16th March. I am wondering once he starts eating solids what happens with the breastfeeding, is it still as often?
What I am trying to work out is how long i'd be able to go for between feeds / expressing before i get engorged. I am hoping to do a 30 hour charity trek at 8 months, but he can't come with me, so i know i would have to express at some point during it so i'm not uncomfortable, i'm just wondering how often! At the moment he feeds every 3 hours in the day, and i alternate, so each side gets a go every 6 hours. The other night he had a good stretch of sleep so one side went 11 hours without a go, and it was painful and leaking everywhere when i woke up!
Any advice would be fab as i need to make a decision soon!
xxx
What I am trying to work out is how long i'd be able to go for between feeds / expressing before i get engorged. I am hoping to do a 30 hour charity trek at 8 months, but he can't come with me, so i know i would have to express at some point during it so i'm not uncomfortable, i'm just wondering how often! At the moment he feeds every 3 hours in the day, and i alternate, so each side gets a go every 6 hours. The other night he had a good stretch of sleep so one side went 11 hours without a go, and it was painful and leaking everywhere when i woke up!
Any advice would be fab as i need to make a decision soon!
xxx
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when you first start weaning he'll still be having pretty much the same amount of milk for a little while coz the amount of solids he's actually having is so small, and he'll drop feeds pretty gradually, but going for my own experience I would say by 8 months my baby could go 6 or 7 hrs without milk, but I could probably go about 12 hrs before getting engorged. So I imagine you'd only have to express once or twice on your treck xx