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[quote=Anonymous]7 month old is combo fed and loves solids/baby led weaning, and I am ready/need to cut out the breastfeeding component of our feeding extravaganza we do 4x a day (he gets like 20 oz of formula a day already, so it's not providing much of his daily calories anyways). My breasts are rock hard in the morning when I wake up, so the first feed of the day is long and productive, but then I feed after  morning nap and then after afternoon nap, and both of those it is like trying to breastfeed an ADHD alligator...then he gets a big bottle and is satisfied. We've already dropped before bed feedings long ago because he wasn't getting enough (gets a big bedtime bottle in its place) and he doesn't wake up to nurse at night.

Do I just drop the two post-nap feeds one at a time? How long between dropping one do I drop the next? and should I pump a bit to make sure I don't get mastitis or is that not necessary? And then how do I handle dropping the morning one, since it's actually a full feed/breasts are full of milk?

This is my second baby, but I don't remember how this went down last time.[/quote]

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