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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP and haven't read the replies.  But I feel like I'm really expert at this question--expert at what I did wrong.

My brother was getting married when my first would be 5 weeks old, and I was to be a bridesmaid.  Baby #1 was too young to be in a mass crowd situation (no shots yet), so I pumped.  We were in a different town and it was maybe a week of me pumping.

Drinking from a bottle is a bit easier for the baby as it flows out and they don't have to work as hard. So after the whole experience, Baby #1 would not go back to the breast.

I didn't think much of it because it was easy to pump.

Well that's because she's a newborn, and is immobile and sleeps a lot!...I did not anticipate when she was awake, crawling around and getting into things.

It became progressively harder to pump.  I was determined to give her breast milk for a year, and it became really hard to pull off by the time she was 6+ months.

So if you want to continue to bf, just be careful of falling into this trap.

Also, you say you make more milk than your baby needs.  I suspect it's because you are giving formula.  The way the hormones work, if you are not supplementing, there is a balance between baby and mom (the crying and also the sucking action signal when milk comes down and how much to make).  Feeding formula or other foods messes with that balance.  (there is also an issue with the baby's gut being a bit porous at that time so shouldn't have other than breast milk if possible)

With my #2, I pumped only if I had to go somewhere for the evening (so not that much) and it really was easy to bf until #2 was 1 year old.[/quote]

OP here. The pediatrician said formula was fine. I’ve always had family members and friends who exclusively breastfed and had an oversupply in the beginning until their supply regulated. [/quote]
Okay, OP, you win! I guess I don't know what I was talking about.  Wish I hadn't spent all that time typing[/quote]

NP, why are you taking this personally? Take a lap, your response isn’t doing what you think it’s doing. [/quote]

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