I know nothing about formula....I am just going to throw it all out there as I am feeling it. Here's my scenario.

- I feel like my supply is dipping.

- I pump 5 times a day at work and driving to and from work to just barely have enough for daycare the next day. (14 oz)

- After having a bottle all day my daughter won't nurse at night, so we have to give her a bedtime bottle. Pump again before bed. She still nurses when she wakes up at night.

- This week I had to use frozen milk for a bottle each day except for one day.

- This pumping all the time is getting so difficult... But I have serious mom guilt if I quit just because it is hard...

- My daughter does really well on a bottle but switching to formula freaks me out. What if it's hard on her gut? Makes her sick or gassy? Then there's also the smellier diapers... and just feeling like I failed my daughter by not giving her the best.

- Should I start to look into just supplementing for a while? If so, I have no clue where to start. What formula?? How much does formula even cost? Do you just give one formula bottle a day or do you mix with breast milk? Which feeding should be the formula feeding? How many ounces of formula would she need in a feeding? She currently drinks 3.5 oz of breast milk a feeding.

- If I start supplementing can I start pumping less??

- Lastly, this is all taking a toll on me... My husband wants me to make it to a year and I did at first too. But now I kind of want to make it to 6 mos (only 1 more month!) and be done. I feel bad just giving up, but I think about how awesome it would be to not have to pump that many times a day at work. To actually be able to go for a walk during lunch. To get more work done at work. To take care of myself and not be depressed. To get more sleep and let my husband take more of the night wake-ups.

Does this make me selfish?

Thanks for your help and insight!!! Being a working mom is hard!!