Refusing to nurse?

Question

My son is only 10 months old and he has currently been refusing to nurse here lately. I believe it’s also impacting my milk supply. He only nurses about four times a day and has no problem nursing first thing in the morning because he’s super hungry
But it seems like an intense battle throughout the rest of the day. He refuses to sit in my arms and nurse.. Anyone else go through this? Any tips or suggestions? My first daughterNEVER had this problem.
I stay at home so I have no frozen milk because I have not needed to pump. We went ahead and bought a canister of formula to try and supplement at least one bottle a day so he’s drinking something aside from water while I fight with him nursing
When start to try pumping whenever he takes his naps to see if I can get as much as I can but it’s kind of irritating￼￼￼￼ ￼￼

Answer

My son will be 10 months in a week
And currently i only nurse him in the morning, 3:30pm and then at bedtime. So 3 times a day. 
He doesn’t ask for it at all. He has 2-3 sippy cups of 3% homo milk (cows) a day (8oz cups) and he eats 3 meals and a few snacks. 
I can barley get him to nurse at the 3:30 session as he drinks and then looks away and is super distracted by everything. I think he is weaning himself... which im ok with as im going back to work in 2 months.

Answer

My daughter only nurses about 4 times a day now too now that she's on solids - is your son having quite a lot of solids so just getting a bit full? 
She nurses 1st thing in the morning, twice in the day, just before bed and then if she wakes in the night (which is often at the moment 😫) between those feeds she has breakfast, snacks, lunch, tea and dinner and we mostly just give her what we are eating now if it's not too spicy - loves her food! 
Your milk supply will adjust to your son's needs and although it's painful at first with the engorgement...they will settle down. It is hard to resist not to pump but I would say if you need to release some then just gently hand express in the bath/shower to relieve them a little otherwise you will keep producing too much milk. 
When my son was this age he only nursed first thing in the morning and then before bed, every baby is different! X

Answer

Lots of babies consolidates feeds to 4-5 a day by 10m. I’d just keep offering and not worry about supplementing assuming he’s eating with you at least 3 times a day.

Refusing to nurse?

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