When Can I Introduce Soy Milk or Cows Milk?
I nursed my daughter exclusively for the first 6 months and now she has been eating solid foods for a little over a month. I have been very fortunate to have a great milk supply and pump several times a day yielding 12-18 ounces of milk. Recently, my daughter has lost interest in nursing. In an average day at daycare, she is eating 2T rice cereal mixed with breastmilk twice a day, 2 5-8 oz bottles of breastmilk, and 4 4 oz. jars of solid food. At dinner time, she is more interested in eating another serving of cereal and solid food, rather than a bottle or nursing. She has 5 teeth as well, so when she doesn’t want to nurse, it is very painful for me. I always had the relief from pumping when we were together in the evenings and on the weekends, when she would nurse. Now that she doesn’t want to nurse, I am pumping less often because my supply is much less, on top of the fact that I don’t really enjoy pumping to begin with. I am not really a fan of formula and am wondering when I can st