I’m desperate and need advice. Baby will be 8 months at the end of this month. He had a tongue/lip tie, just like his sister, and revision didn’t help my pain (just like his sister). He’s gotten a couple teeth now, and nursing has become even more painful (he’s a biter, too, and smiles at any attempts to correct it). I’m now getting plugs and bruised nipples again. I was already planning to wean around a year, as I just can’t take this much longer, but I need help/relief now.
How many times a day should he be nursing to satisfy nutritional requirements? He nurses an average of 10x a day right now, sometimes more; rarely less.
He’s very enthusiastic about solids, but so far we just feed him dinner (whatever we’re having + prunes and water - he has had constipation issues since birth). As long as I nurse him beforehand, is it ok to offer food at each meal?
How would I go about cutting down to minimum feedings (ideally, I would like to cut down to ~4 feedings during the day - wakeup and before meals, plus somehow get down to 2x a night), and should I offer replacement expressed milk/formula? Is it even possible to manage this?
Also should add - he has almost zero comfort or sleep association with nursing - he doesn’t want to nurse when he needs comfort, he goes down for naps awake, and half the time he wakes at night to nurse, hubby has to get him back to sleep or he just lays in our bed talking/babbling til he falls asleep on his own (he sleeps first stretch in a crib in his room, then comes to bed with us).