Nausea w/ BF not getting better

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This is from a person not really in my care. She & I have just

corresponded via e-mail. I have her permission to post. We have

tried different suggestions to no avail. Anybody else able to offer

any tips?

A little background: I am a first time mom with a 8wk son. I am also

a

labor and delivery RN who looked forward to breast feeding my entire

pregnancy. My son had no problem latching on at birth and we had a

relatively easy time learning to breast feed together. The mechanics

of

breast feeding seemed to click between us right away and I never had

any

of the usual problems of nipple pain or engorgement. Unfortunately,

I

did (and still am) dealing with an odd issue that I haven't been

able to

find any info on. Every time I have a let-down, I feel extremely

nauseated to the point that I feel like I am going to throw-up. The

nausea usually passes within a minute or so but the waves come again

and

again each time I have a let down. For the first couple of weeks

when I

was nursing every 3hrs around the clock I was nauseated all of the

time

which had a really drastic effect on my appetite and I lost a lot of

weight really fast. The worst part was how the nausea was making me

feel about my son. Instead of feeling the wonderful bonding effects

that so many speak of when they nursed, I felt like I was going to

throw-up! After a couple of weeks of this, I realized that just

looking

at my son was making me feel nauseated and instead of feeling closer

to

him I was feeling more and more removed. It was like we were having

a

reversed bonding! I made it to 6wks nursing but at that point I was

worried that I was really missing out on bonding with him and

decided to

try pumping and giving him expressed breast milk instead. Pumping

has

been more tolerable for me since the nausea is a little less when I

pump. Now looking at the pump makes me nauseated but I am loving

bottle

feeding my son as I am finally enjoying the feeding experience.

Obviously, this is not the ideal situation and pumping and then

bottle

feeding is double the work. Though the nausea is more tolerable with

this arrangement I am still, quiet literally, sick of feeling sick

and

am thinking of weaning at 3 months. I do feel really ambivalent

about

the whole situation and am sad about how things have worked out. If

I

could somehow stop the nausea I would very much like to go back to

breast feeding my son. I have tried all the suggestions listed on

kellymom.com and those don't work. As a matter of fact, they make it

worse. The nausea is very intense and comes in waves all day and

whenever I have a let-down. The feeling is not getting any better.

I couldn't take it anymore and started weaning my son and am now

down to only 2 pumping sessions a day. I'm sad about how this all

worked out so thought I would really try to make sure that I left no

stone uncovered before I stopped completely. In my mind I keep

thinking that if I can figure out how to make the nausea stop then I

could go back to exclusively bfing.