u/Inevitable-Look-9033

I’ve been 90% bottle feeding as baby couldn’t exclusively nurse due to a variety of reasons. Baby takes 1-2 formula bottles a day and the rest expressed breast milk, and I nurse her in the morning and for comfort before naps. Would love to cut out pumping and transition to formula completely but hoping we would still be able to maintain our nursing sessions. Wondering if anyone has had long term success with this or will my milk completely dry up if I quit pumping and cause baby to be frustrated and not want to nurse for comfort anymore? Not opposed to maintaining a few pumps a day if I have to to keep the nursing but curious of others experiences.

Not sure if it matters but I have an oversupply. The only reason I supplement with formula is to freeze milk each day and also wanted baby to be used to it. Even at currently 4PPD I’m making 10-15oz more than baby drinks. Idk if that affects things in terms of how much milk I’d produce if I cut down even more.

Looking for experiences similar to mine. I’ve had a really emotional and difficult feeding journey….had dreams of exclusive nursing and a baby with oral ties and inefficient transfer. Had ties addressed and did physio and two months of triple feeding later I gave up on my dream and decided to just pump because it was killing me mentally and her transfer was improving but barely. LO still latches for comfort particularly when sleepy but she is 95% bottle fed. The pumping is absolutely killing me and really starting to affect my mental health. She is 4 months old and as much as I would love to keep giving her breast milk, I know I am going to transition to formula soon. She takes formula fine as we’ve been giving her one bottle a day to see how she adjusts. I’ve been slowly cutting pumps and I’m currently down to 4/day which isn’t bad and I’m still making enough for her but I really want to be done. I get so anxious and feel sick everytime I have to pump. I dream of being done forever but I have such guilt about quitting when I have a good supply.

So my question is this- for those of you who ended up quitting EP and transitioning to formula, was it a positive experience? Did you wish you had stuck it out longer? Did you wish you had quit sooner? I’m hoping even if I quit I can still nurse her for comfort because I love the bonding experience and I’m scared to let go of it because it’s been so hard for me to come to terms with not being able to nurse exclusively. I just don’t wanna regret anything.