Exclusive Pumping to Exclusive Breastfeeding: Do I still need to pump at all?

Christy
After I had my son I had two lactation consultants and the pediatrician in the hospital seeing my breastfeeding was going great and my watches were great. After I got home and exhaustion set in , and my son to started to feed every 30 minutes and would scream constantly well I was crying because of the pain of breastfeeding . I knew something was wrong . I also had postpartum depression which I was not aware of. Out of desperation I called my husband who was at work and he told me to call the hospital and talk to the lactation consultant. I was at a point where I told my husband that I couldn't be a mom to my baby and that I couldn't feed him because the pain was so bad. The lactation consultant told me that now I had to pump until my nipples heal. At two weeks old I had to exclusively start pumping because I had severe nipple damage due to my son's posterior tongue tie. My husband and I found out only after the lactation consultant suggested this mught be the problem and then being sent to an ENT for diagnosis. Because we had already started using dr. Brown's preemie bottles for bottle feeding with my expressed breastmilk and he was doing well weight wise we decided not to get his tongue clipped. Fast forward to 7 weeks old, my son decided his tongue tie was causing too much trouble with bottle-feeding and went on a strike and didn't eat more than 1 oz in 24 hours. I kind of freaked out and my husband and I talked and we decided to get his tongue clipped at the recommendation of the ENT who said that with his tongue tie could cause him to have bottle feeding problems as well as breastfeeding problems. What we were not informed was that because he was already 7 weeks old and had developed his own way of sucking and swallowing he would have to relearn how to do this all over again. Which we did not find out until 2 weeks after his procedure was done when I still felt something was wrong I then called the lactation consultant to figure out why we were still having problems. All I was told was to continue breastfeeding. But because he had never learned how to properly latch I had latching issues, and because he refused to take a bottle we weren't using a bottle to help him suck. He still has a bad latch but the pain is not there and then nipple damage is not there. The lactation consultant told me that I had to practice exercises on his mouth and then it could take up to 7 weeks, the amount of time that has bad habit formed to possibly break it. I had a very good Supply while I was pumping, and wasn't sure what to do so I just started breastfeeding only. And occasionally would pump when I was ingorged or a I felt like I needed to have a little bit extra. Over the last 3 weeks I have barely pumped maybe once a day in addition to exclusively breastfeeding. My little one is almost 3 months old and wasn't sure if I could increase my Supply or if it has started to level out. Has anyone had luck increasing their supply at this time? By the way he's still refusing to take a bottle, still doesn't know how to properly suck and swallow. He flicks his tongue to get the milk out instead of sucking and swallowing properly. I am up every 1.5 -2 hours feeding him. It is better than exclusively pumping every 2 hours and trying to feed him and getting up with him at night and trying to pump. I just wish you would take a bottle at night so that he would sleep longer and that I could get more sleep as well.