Guys, I want to start LO on solids soon - where do I start to find good info on this? I know my doc is obviously one resource, but anything else you have found helpful about what types of foods to start with, etc.?
Guys, I want to start LO on solids soon - where do I start to find good info on this? I know my doc is obviously one resource, but anything else you have found helpful about what types of foods to start with, etc.?
@hoodoll82@virginiaunicorn11 I loved the baby led weaning book and cookbook. Worked well for us. Weelicious is also a good website with lots of baby led weaning adaptable recipes.
Thanks everyone for the other sites. I'll be checking them out. With this LO we are a week shy of 6 months and he definitely doesn't seem ready for baby led weaning. We are going to give him a few more weeks and then start with spoon feeding if we have to. I don't want to delay too long.
@henrytviii I've read reviews that I don't need the BLW book, just the cookbook bc it gives all the BLW info in the intro. Did you find that to be true? I put the cookbook on my Christmas list.
Baby eats fine from me twice a day during the week, then we EBF on the weekends, but I cannot for the life of me pump more than 2.5 oz total during my 3x pump sessions at work. I'm not dehydrated either, chug water like no ones business. It takes like 8 minutes and then I'm completely empty...running the pump longer has never done anything. Starting to get really frustrated.
Baby eats fine from me twice a day during the week, then we EBF on the weekends, but I cannot for the life of me pump more than 2.5 oz total during my 3x pump sessions at work. I'm not dehydrated either, chug water like no ones business. It takes like 8 minutes and then I'm completely empty...running the pump longer has never done anything. Starting to get really frustrated.
I was having a dip in supply pumping the days I worked and I started taking the honest lactation supplements last week. I'm already eating oatmeal, drinking Gatorade, and trying to stay hydrated. I pumped 7 ounces each session yesterday and today!
I don't know if this is bs, but my LC told me that our supplies are totally established by 8 weeks. Meaning, there is no increasing supply at this point. Baby will take the same amount of milk at 2 mo as they do at 6 mo. The only difference in the quality of milk. It becomes richer and changes to accommodate the needs of that age. The only thing that can change is that the supply can decrease if you don't pump or bf. I'm really bummed if this is true, because I had an oversupply issue at first, and was so sick of leaking that I would purposefully not fully drain them, hoping my body would stop producing as much.
@cait7425 I don't think that's true. I notice my supply changing up and down depending how much I pump or nurse. Its basically established but still responds to supply and demand in good and bad ways.
@jesshrou I remember being glad I had both books. Lots of people quit BLW because it can be scary, the books helped me understand the process so I was comfortable with it. I lent them out so I can check now but i plan to reread both. I wouldn't wait until Christmas unless you LO seems way off from it. DS1 was grabbing our food and ready at 5.5 months and I was glad I had read the standard book. This LO isn't ready at all though. I think I'd rather have the non cookbook and use weelicious for recipes. The cookbook was a little old school, weelicous had more modern ingredients and things the whole family wanted to eat.
So lo woke up at 11 ish crying (weird) let her cry for a few before my fiancé went to pick her up. Well she and the crib was soaked from spit up/puke. She puked again while he was holding her. All over.. So change bedding, clean baby get room cleaned up. Sit down to feed her because she's wide awake At this point. Eating for a few mins, throws up all over me and the floor again. Cleaned floor, cleaned baby. Feeding her again.. Only because at this point there's nothing in her stomach and she's also still wide awake. So hopefully she isn't sick (already has had a cold for a week) and this is some weird thing. She's acting her normal self, smiley and laughing, No fever so I guess we'll see.
@caitlincunn Mine has had a head cold for the past 2 weeks. She's a spitter in the first place, but during her cold it got 10x worse. I think it was just all the post nasal drip upsetting her stomach. I was worried about her hydration, but she actually seemed to want to eat more frequently while sick. Good luck, and hopefully it's just a little bug. But call the doc if you get concerned.
Probably should have put this in the baby symptoms thread, woops! She ended up throwing up again after eating.. So we decided to just let her sleep and when she was hungry she would wake up. She snuggled on me sitting in the glider and I stood up to rock her and she went right to sleep until a little after 7. She just finished eating so we'll see what happens but so far better than last night already. Thanks!
@henrytviii thanks so much! He'll be 6 months on January 10th, but I probably should buy it before then. @cait7425 I don't think that's true regarding volume. My LO is EBF and I'm having to increase his bottles to 6 ounces now. He was taking 4 ounces for the longest time. How much he eats when he nurses I have no idea, but according to my mom he still acts hungry after 5 when she's with him. I don't think it's the nipple flow since it still takes him about 30 minutes for a bottle.
^ I agree. I find it hard to believe that my production is set. What happens during growth spurts then? Ya know? I have a hard time believing quite a few things my LC has suggested. The only reason I use her is mainly for the support group and the fact that she's free. The problem I've had with the LCs I've encountered is that they take breast is best to a whole new level. There are extenuating circumstances to every situation. Well, anywho, it's good to hear that others have had luck increasing.
@cait7425 I also don't think it's true. At 8 weeks, I've lucky to get 4 oz total from pumping. Now I usually get 7. Yesterday I pumped 32 oz total, two days ago it was 41.
@cait7425 I also don't think it's true. At 8 weeks, I've lucky to get 4 oz total from pumping. Now I usually get 7. Yesterday I pumped 32 oz total, two days ago it was 41.
Wow! I need to hydrate more and get my volume up. Once I got myself a nice freezer stash I became a pump slacker. Now the stash is down to less than 20 bags, from about 100.
BUT, we made it!!! 6 days to six months and with Thanksgiving I'll be home to nurse so we wont use much of that stash until next week. Frye Boots here I come (my goal gift). Unless I start actually making time to pump we'll need to supplement in two weeks. Thankful to make it this far.
I pump once or twice a day and get 5-12 ounces. Baby is definitely much more effective that the pump. If I manage to pump one side while he nurses the other I get 4-6 ounces in less than 5 minutes. He never seems unsatisfied and I don't supplement nursing on the days I am home. Pump alone is not great.
@henrytviii I love that you get a reward! And that its Frye boots. I know you work hard for your money, and it's important to treat yourself and celebrate life's wins. Woot woot, way to rock it, mama!
I don't get to nurse often during the week so it's a nice break on the weekends. I'm currently nursing LO in the rocking chair and she's falling asleep. I know I should put her in her crib, but I'd rather stay here.
I don't get to nurse often during the week so it's a nice break on the weekends. I'm currently nursing LO in the rocking chair and she's falling asleep. I know I should put her in her crib, but I'd rather stay here.
LO started moving around at 5:30. I grabbed him and nursed in bed so he'd go back to sleep. Good parenting, no, but I was so not ready to get up yet!
I don't get to nurse often during the week so it's a nice break on the weekends. I'm currently nursing LO in the rocking chair and she's falling asleep. I know I should put her in her crib, but I'd rather stay here.
LO started moving around at 5:30. I grabbed him and nursed in bed so he'd go back to sleep. Good parenting, no, but I was so not ready to get up yet!
I don't get to nurse often during the week so it's a nice break on the weekends. I'm currently nursing LO in the rocking chair and she's falling asleep. I know I should put her in her crib, but I'd rather stay here.
@sammy k. I grew up on a dairy too. But I am like most of y'all in saying your supply can flucuate. A few weeks ago I actually went up to 65 oz a day during her growth spurt and now it's gone back down to lower 50s. And she takes anywhere from 22 to 27 on average. But has taken as much as 33 oz. So the demand changes.
@henrytviii thanks! I feel guilty because I nurse my baby to sleep more than I would like to admit....
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No worries. You can't be worse than me. I bought my kid a new mattress so he'd maybe sleep in his crib and was cuddling him by midnight of night one. He's just so precious and I miss so much at work. And honestly my parenting of him is whatever is easy in the moment, and lets him get what he needs, and me get what I need. It's okay, they will not need to nurse to sleep forever, its really quite impossible. I nurse LO to sleep every night I'm home and his dad gives him a bottle and then rocks him to sleep on the 2-3 nights I work late. He was actually going down drowsy but awake until 4 months. Then the sleep regression shit storm near about killed us. We decided not to fight him, and we are much happier. All of us.
I am pretty sure I nursed my first to sleep for 11 months, it wasn't really an issue. Once he could walk he just nursed and then walked over to the crib and that was that. I worried about it incessantly. This time I'll worry only when he doesn't transition on his own by 12 months or so.
I nurse my kid to sleep if he will do it, but he kind of fusses and just wants to be put down - so falling asleep drowsy but awake in his crib is what he prefers... Except middle of the night, I nurse him back to sleep every 2-3 hours.
Until this week - he is starting to go up to 5 hours now without waking, and even when he wakes, he wants to be held but he's only been nursing once at night the past few nights.
I'm hoping this means he's on his way to longer stretches of sleep.
I have only ever fed him from one boob per nursing session, but lately he's also wanting to eat from both before bed. (Still can't do that during the day or he vomits it all up.)
It's like two steps forward two steps back every few nights... But I'm hoping it's improving.
Only downside is I'm waking up engorged most days now, so LO overheats and spits it all up... Womp womp
He's 5.5 months. Here's hoping he's on the 6 month STTN track...!
@virginiaunicorn11, yay for 5 hours! Ya'll will get there! You're so patient and such a good mom to that sweet boy....I think you need to get yourself a prize like @henrytviii.
@virginiaunicorn11, yay for 5 hours! Ya'll will get there! You're so patient and such a good mom to that sweet boy....I think you need to get yourself a prize like @henrytviii.
100% agreed. It sound like you are making serious progress. And it seems like your LO is doing it on his own. 5 hours sound wonderful. You could pump in the morning to help him out. And give you a little more of a stash.
My LO is definitely going longer stretches as well . . . During the day! And nursing more at night!! Got to love my reverse cyclers. At least they stay super connected to their mom!
@henrytviii thanks! I feel guilty because I nurse my baby to sleep more than I would like to admit....
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No worries. You can't be worse than me. I bought my kid a new mattress so he'd maybe sleep in his crib and was cuddling him by midnight of night one. He's just so precious and I miss so much at work. And honestly my parenting of him is whatever is easy in the moment, and lets him get what he needs, and me get what I need. It's okay, they will not need to nurse to sleep forever, its really quite impossible. I nurse LO to sleep every night I'm home and his dad gives him a bottle and then rocks him to sleep on the 2-3 nights I work late. He was actually going down drowsy but awake until 4 months. Then the sleep regression shit storm near about killed us. We decided not to fight him, and we are much happier. All of us.
I am pretty sure I nursed my first to sleep for 11 months, it wasn't really an issue. Once he could walk he just nursed and then walked over to the crib and that was that. I worried about it incessantly. This time I'll worry only when he doesn't transition on his own by 12 months or so.
I can't tell you how good it is to hear that, thank you. This is where I wish i'd never read any books or TB. On a personal level, it feels fine to nurse him to sleep and works for us. But its ruined by all those "expert" voices telling me I'm failing as a parent. Actually, I do feel better whenever I read someone on here talk about how they spent 1-2 hours putting their LO down. Call nursing a bad habit, but it sure is waaaaay easier!
So, on another note... LO is 6 months next week and has pretty much no interest in food. (We've been giving him tiny bites of different things for a couple weeks). He really likes to suck on his spoon though.
^^^ I nursed our first to sleep for about a year and he has always been an excellent sleeper. We didn't have any trouble with him going to sleep on his own once he weaned. He pretty much just stopped falling asleep while eating and wanted to get in his bed right after. Every kid is different, but I don't think it's always necessarily a "bad habit" to get into. It made that first year a lot easier for us.
My new anger this week is all the experts (usually MEN, it seems) who make moms feel guilty for nursing babies to sleep. Biology says that's what's supposed to happen!!
Hang in there, ladies. It gets better... eventually!....
Re: Feeding lo - November
https://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com
https://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/HALF-Implementation-Guide/Age-Specific-Content/Pages/Infant-Food-and-Feeding.aspx#none
https://www.lalecheleague.org/faq/firstfoods.html
Thanks everyone for the other sites. I'll be checking them out. With this LO we are a week shy of 6 months and he definitely doesn't seem ready for baby led weaning. We are going to give him a few more weeks and then start with spoon feeding if we have to. I don't want to delay too long.
@jesshrou I remember being glad I had both books. Lots of people quit BLW because it can be scary, the books helped me understand the process so I was comfortable with it. I lent them out so I can check now but i plan to reread both. I wouldn't wait until Christmas unless you LO seems way off from it. DS1 was grabbing our food and ready at 5.5 months and I was glad I had read the standard book. This LO isn't ready at all though. I think I'd rather have the non cookbook and use weelicious for recipes. The cookbook was a little old school, weelicous had more modern ingredients and things the whole family wanted to eat.
No fever so I guess we'll see.
Poor babies.
@cait7425 I don't think that's true regarding volume. My LO is EBF and I'm having to increase his bottles to 6 ounces now. He was taking 4 ounces for the longest time. How much he eats when he nurses I have no idea, but according to my mom he still acts hungry after 5 when she's with him. I don't think it's the nipple flow since it still takes him about 30 minutes for a bottle.
ETA same on being jealous of the amt you all are pumping! Not growing up on a dairy farm
BUT, we made it!!! 6 days to six months and with Thanksgiving I'll be home to nurse so we wont use much of that stash until next week. Frye Boots here I come (my goal gift). Unless I start actually making time to pump we'll need to supplement in two weeks. Thankful to make it this far.
I pump once or twice a day and get 5-12 ounces. Baby is definitely much more effective that the pump. If I manage to pump one side while he nurses the other I get 4-6 ounces in less than 5 minutes. He never seems unsatisfied and I don't supplement nursing on the days I am home. Pump alone is not great.
But I am like most of y'all in saying your supply can flucuate. A few weeks ago I actually went up to 65 oz a day during her growth spurt and now it's gone back down to lower 50s. And she takes anywhere from 22 to 27 on average. But has taken as much as 33 oz. So the demand changes.
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I am pretty sure I nursed my first to sleep for 11 months, it wasn't really an issue. Once he could walk he just nursed and then walked over to the crib and that was that. I worried about it incessantly. This time I'll worry only when he doesn't transition on his own by 12 months or so.
Until this week - he is starting to go up to 5 hours now without waking, and even when he wakes, he wants to be held but he's only been nursing once at night the past few nights.
I'm hoping this means he's on his way to longer stretches of sleep.
I have only ever fed him from one boob per nursing session, but lately he's also wanting to eat from both before bed. (Still can't do that during the day or he vomits it all up.)
It's like two steps forward two steps back every few nights... But I'm hoping it's improving.
Only downside is I'm waking up engorged most days now, so LO overheats and spits it all up... Womp womp
He's 5.5 months. Here's hoping he's on the 6 month STTN track...!
My LO is definitely going longer stretches as well . . . During the day! And nursing more at night!! Got to love my reverse cyclers. At least they stay super connected to their mom!
On a personal level, it feels fine to nurse him to sleep and works for us. But its ruined by all those "expert" voices telling me I'm failing as a parent.
Actually, I do feel better whenever I read someone on here talk about how they spent 1-2 hours putting their LO down. Call nursing a bad habit, but it sure is waaaaay easier!
So, on another note... LO is 6 months next week and has pretty much no interest in food. (We've been giving him tiny bites of different things for a couple weeks). He really likes to suck on his spoon though.
@virginiaunicorn11, yay for 5 hours!
Hang in there, ladies. It gets better... eventually!....