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In reply to the discussion: Court orders mother to hand over nursing infant to father on weekends [View all]Nikia
(11,411 posts)My baby is almost a year old and we are planning the transition to less breast milk. I am away from home for 10-12 hours per day during the work week, pumping 2-3 times per day which was 4 times per day at 2-4 months. I barely pump enough and usually had to pump a couple of times extra on the weekend before he started solid. Now, he awakes a couple of times per night to breast feed. There would have been no way that I could have pumped enough for two solid days as I seem to pump less at every consecutive feeding. Even now, I would probably end up weaning early and my husband would have a hellish night until the baby adjusted to no night feedings.
Yes, I could have dropped dead, needed life saving surgery that would have left me out of commission for days, or something but otherwise this would have been very upsetting to us all.