RE: please help....need some ??? answered
I have been doing it for 6 1/2 months now for my son. We started out nursing, pumping, supplementing every meal and finally I just had to give myself a break on trying to force the nursing. I so feel for what you have been through. While I built up a great supply with just and Ameda PY (at first, a few bouts with mastitis have me barely keeping up now), I would also reccommend the hospital pump. I was getting quite a lot of milk after a week or two of EPing and by the time he was 5 weeks old I was pumping maybe 6x a day. By 2 months I was down to 4x a day, which is where I have stayed. Most will tell you that it takes about 3 months before you can start cutting back, so I'd count on that. I just happened to have an oversupply and could cut back sooner...you never know.
I agree to keep trying with the nursing. Pumping is extremely hard work and very exhausting. Very worth it, but difficult. That said, I had to relax on the nursing thing and I tried a little every day and he never got it, I stopped trying so much. Now I only nurse him if he "asks" for it. He loves it for comfort but never really got the hang of it for eating. Still, it's wonderful that we have that, even if it wasn't what I dreamed of for our nursing relationship, you know.
Good luck!
Mama to my boys (04,07,11)