My baby is 3 months tomorrow and I am planning to start weaning with the intention of having fully stopped pumping by 4 months PP. EP was never my plan but I ended up here due to undersupply, poor weight gain in the first month with triple feeding, and eventually baby just refused the breast after developing bottle preference.
I was on 6PPD with baby’s bottles until around 2 weeks ago when I developed mastitis when baby started sleeping longer stretches through the night. This really upset me as I was very unwell and it felt cruel as an undersupplier (only meeting approx. 75% of needs).
I had been doing anything I could prior to this to increase my supply but the mastitis undid this work overnight and my supply dropped to max of 20oz per day. I have been able to wean down to 4PPD for 15-20 mins using double in bra medela pumps.
My question is where do I go from here? I really really don’t want to get mastitis again. I have large breasts which make it difficult to feel engorgement and the swelling and redness was large the last time before I realised.