My baby is only 10lbs at 3 months old so I know she’s small for world facing, but she has great head control. She hates facing inward and all walks that start in the stroller or our ergo embrace quickly end up with my husband or me holding her outward facing, her favorite position. Are there any good world facing carriers out there that dont have too high of a panel?
I enjoy breastfeeding my daughter but it has been hard. She’s 11 weeks now. The first 6 week I was blissfully ignorant that anything was wrong - I thought babies were supposed to eat constantly and it was normal cluster feeding time. The fact that it could take her an hour to finish an oz in the bottle should have been a sign….then sure enough we found out her weight gain wasn’t tracking and she had a tongue tie.
We got the tongue tie fixed and now she drinks bottles like a champ. I don’t think she is getting her 24 oz per day but maybe close to 20. She drinks quickly from the bottle and can do 3-5oz per feed if receiving bottle only.
I have been triple feeding to get my supply up / ensure she gets enough but I am not that consistent because my husband works and sometimes it is just not possible to pump after a feed. I get 2-4 oz per pump.
Since my supply likely is a bit too low she gets anywhere from 0-6oz of formula per day at this point while I work to pump as much as I can.
It has been two weeks since releasing the tongue tie and maybe her latch is slightly better but she transfers milk slowly - like 2 oz in an hour is a success. And I’m just wondering whether it’s worth it to keep trying given how inefficient that feels vs. the bottle. It is sad to give up but I’m just so tired as I sit her connected to the pump following an inefficient breastfeed and feeling stressed that I haven’t extracted enough the past 12 hours to get my supply up….
Does anyone have a similar experience / is there hope that it could get better or is it more practical to switch to the bottle / combo feed as I don’t know I have it in me to exclusively pump.