i am EBFing my DD. started out as a preemie, now has grown into the chunkiest chubbiest baby ever, very big according to growth charts (without having to adjust for age)
i love nursing, but hate all the side effects of it (pretty much all of the physical side effects of BF for me have been negative, but that's another thread for BP). one big one is that i feel like i literally spend half my day eating. as in, shoving food in my mouth like some sort of animal. i'ts to the point where i'm embarrassed to eat in front of people.
despite spending half the day eating, i feel like the other half of the day, i'm STARVING. i'm with my kids reading books and all i can think of is how i'm starving, when can i eat. i've resorted to putting DS in front of TV just so i can sit down and eat a 2nd (or a 3rd dinner) etc without having to share
so i feel this has gotten to the point of being ABSURD. i mean, really..it's embarrassing how much i have to eat, not to mention extremely inconvenient, and expensive (i go through groceries so fast, it's scary).
DD turns 6 months tomorrow, and her 6mo checkup is the day after. Should i start solids ASAP? should i start supplementing??? would these help much? what else can i do? is there ANYTHING i can do to stop feeling like a ravenous animal? lol
with DS i remember having this problem, but not to such an extent. he was big baby too but not as chunky, and we started solids at exactly 5 mos (he was very very interested in eating solids). By 6 months he was eating a decent amount of various solids, and by 9mos he was going to town with solids and only nursing 3x a day. with DD, she just doesn't appear interested .. plus i initially wanted to wait til she was 7 months (so she would be 6 mos adjusted age, and she would have better head control, could sit up on her own). but i don't know, i feel like i cant go on much longer EBFing her..i am just going bonkers here, spending so much time and effort eating. i seem to have adequate supply (always have), but my DD is just happy to nurse and nurse and nurse and nurse... (she just had a growth spurt recently as well)
ugh, i've give anything not to have to eat so much..i feel like it saps all my time & energy and i have less time to actually play with my kids.