Mama goes crazy--10 month old, BFing and won't eat solids
Hey, all. I'm new here, but am desperate to find a community that can be supportive and helpful. I feel like I'm about to go over the deep end!
I have a 10 month old daughter, who has been exclusively breastfed, and it's gone just fine, for the most part. We had waited to introduce solids at all until she was about 8 months, knowing that she could just start with finger foods, rather than mushy stuff. Also, I am going to work full time in about six weeks...so we figured by the time I got to working, she'd be eating more and needing less milk, which would make the pumping process (and staying at home with dad) easier. However, two months later, she still doesn't really eat anything. She'll taste things, chew on them, put them in her mouth...and she reaches for food, and seems to enjoy what she puts in her mouth...but she utterly refuses to swallow anything. I can't spoon-feed her--she insists on doing it herself, and just ends up playing with whatever is on the spoon. So it's finger-foods or nothing.
I am feeling totally lost, here. She's BFing more frequently than ever, now. I have no idea how I could possibly begin to pump milk in order to go back to work, because she eats so often. I'm exhausted from waking up between four and six times a night, still. I feel worn out and used up, and resentful, which only makes me feel selfish and depressed...and I don't know what to do. I feel chained to the baby...and I don't know how I'm going to manage to go back to work with things the way they are.
We just moved three days ago to a brand-new state...so I don't have a community of people around me to talk to yet. Thanks, all, for reading...and I'll take anything you've got!
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