Not as interested in nursing? Starting formula in a sippy?
My DD is 10 months old and I recently switched her daytime nursings from before her nap (right before she went down) to after she wakes up from a nap. My thinking was, in a few months I would like to start the weaning process and it would be easier to give her a cup of milk upon waking than right before a nap. It's gone great and she seems to get to sleep even easier than when I was nursing her! I just put her down when she seems sleepy, turn on the aquarium, and after about 30 seconds of fussing she either talks to herself and rolls around a bit and then falls asleep or just turns over and goes to sleep. But the past few days I have noticed that she isn't really nursing much after the naps at all. She'll latch on for a bit (like 1-2 minutes) and then the next 10-15 minutes are basically popping on and off constantly. I switch sides, keep trying to get her to latch back on, but she just doesn't really seem interested, she'd rather talk, play with my face, hair, etc.....
So my first thought is that maybe she wasn't nursing a whole lot for nutrition/calorie needs before when I nursed her at naptime. Maybe it was more for comfort/getting sleepy? And now that I've changed the time she doesn't need the comfort nursing anymore? But I'm not sure.
She still nurses pretty well first thing in the a.m. and right before going to bed at night, and has 3 solids meals a day of varying sizes (depending on how much she likes what I'm serving....pizza, YUM! chicken and sweet potato balls, not so much....).
So now I'm thinking that maybe I should offer her a cup of formula with her solids meals instead of water? I just worry that she isn't getting enough calories with only 2 good nursings during the day, and 3 meals, of which she sometimes barely eats at all. She's not a big baby to begin with, weight-wise (15 %ile) and I'm worried she won't stay on her growth curve. I would still offer to nurse her after each nap, just give her the cup of milk instead of a cup of water at her meals an hour after she wakes up from her naps. Pumping is not an option. I hate doing it and have never gotten much anyhow, and I'm just not willing to start pumping at this point, with her being so close to 1. What do you think?
M, mommy to A 2005, E 2007, and L 2010