i had no idea why i was feeling intense anxiety for approx. 10 seconds at
the beginning of every breastfeeding session.
Not exact matches
Begin by giving your baby a half ounce
of formula or breastmilk in a bottle at nighttime after a normal
breastfeeding session.
If your baby is willing to give up
breastfeeding sessions but isn't interested in drinking from a bottle or cup, put some
of your breastmilk on the spout or bottle nipple to give your baby a taste
of what he or she is used to at the
beginning of each feed.
Beginning with one nursing
session per day, cut the amount
of time you spend
breastfeeding your baby down by a couple
of minutes each time.
While I brushed the incident aside and proceeded to prepare for my usual middle -
of - the - night pump
session, this sleep hallucination episode got me thinking about how much stress and anxiety I had been under since I
began my motherhood and
breastfeeding journey.
One
of the best ways to
begin weaning from
breastfeeding is to gradually replace one nursing
session with a single formula feed or solid food, depending on your baby's age.
Since you will naturally be
breastfeeding less often and having longer stretches
of time between nursing
sessions, your fertility may
begin to return.