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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I could have written your subject line!  Except, we're at almost seven months.  Nearly every day (for months now) I contemplate quitting.  I do wonder if I will look back on this time and shake my head at why I did not stop sooner!  Baby is not a good nurser, so while I nurse once a day, I otherwise pump and he is still exclusively breastfed (though my supply is now starting to dwindle).  I do not like pumping, but I feel inexplicable annoying guilt over quitting.  So, two evils -- the dislike of pumping or the guilt -- both of which are annoying/uncomfortable in their own way.  Not sure which is worse, so I just keep doing what I'm doing.  We are going to start doing 1/4 formula in his bottles, however, starting next week.

OP, if you hate pumping, I think you should quit (do as I say, not as I do, right?).  However, if you don't want to deal with the guilt, could you just pump less?  It sounds like you've got a stellar supply, so could you transition to pumping 3-4 times a day?  I was not able to do this initially, but a few months in, I was able to slowly reduce the number of pumps per day to 4, which helped.     [/quote]

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