All About Bryan and Dylan

Today is the first day I did not expressing in the office. It wasn’t too bad as I have been expressing only twice a day last week during my trip to Phuket.

I am getting tired of expressing milk, and carrying an additional bag to store & transport milk from work each day. Besides, Bryan does not like to drink EBM from the bottle anyway.

So once Bryan finishes my EBM inventory by Friday, he will start to get formula during the day when i am at work, that is beginning Monday. Unfortunately he totally rejects frozen EBM now, …so all inventory I have on that is going down the drain *cry*

I will still direct breastfeed morning & night. I don’t know yet what i will do during the day on weekends. Bryan will probably definitely demand direct bf, but if there are not enough bm, I will try to give formula. I am sure he will reject it, but he is old enough to understand simple explanations now. So if he is really hungry, he will accept the formula (i think). Otherwise, he is still getting his regular solid meals, so he definitely won’t starve.

Besides, I am pretty sure that he will get min 8 Oz during the morning & night feedings, based on the volume that I am able to express if I do not direct feed. And usually during direct bfg, there will be more milk than expression, so it could be more than 16Oz per day for him.

I found this from KellyMom breastfeeding website

Several studies have measured breastmilk intake for babies between 12 and 24 months and found typical amounts to be 14-19 oz per day (400-550 mL per day).

So I am not scared of him not getting enuf milk.

It’s gonna be tough, but I think it is time to start.