1. How old is your nursling?
2. Current challenges in nursing your toddler/baby? (Pregnancy related, or in general)
3. Plans to wean? Tandem nurse?
4. Planning on trying any new breastfeeding products this time?
5. What fears do you have breastfeeding a new baby?
Re: Currently Breastfeeding Check-in 6.21
2. Nursing is painful. She only nurses 2x/day. Before her nap and before bed. My milk is nearly gone.
3. I plan on weaning as soon as the first trimester exhaustion chills out. I am home with my dd all day and need her to nap. I'm worried she won't go to sleep without a boob.
4. I bought a my Brest friend pillow. I used a boppy with my daughter. I need some nice reusable breast pads too.
5. My milk didn't come in until day 8 with my daughter. She nursed constantly and was a VERY alert baby. I'm worried that my next baby will be a normal baby who sleeps a lot and it won't be enough to stimulate my milk.
12 months and about 3 weeks
2. Current challenges in nursing your toddler/baby? (Pregnancy related, or in general)
supply has gone wayyyyy down and it is still not super comfortable to feed her, so my will to continue is seriously dwindling. DH has been pushing for me to wean her since about a month before her first birthday, mainly because he's tired of having to get up in the middle of the night to bring her to me (which is what we do to try to balance the fact that by default I am the one who's up nursing her). And at this point, I'm ready to give in.
3. Plans to wean? Tandem nurse?
in the process of weaning now
4. Planning on trying any new breastfeeding products this time?
definitely plan to try some new nursing bras! Haven't really thought about anything else tbh
5. What fears do you have breastfeeding a new baby?
I guess just that it won't go as well as the first time. We had a rough go of it in the beginning but over all it's been pretty great and I hope it will be again!
BFP May 16th 2016
DD born January 30 2017
Surprise BFP/MC April 2017
2. She's going through that phase where she gets super distracted and stops nursing, then yells at me if I cover up, then pitches a fit bc yelling didn't get her what she wanted.
3. I nurse her typically at nap time and sometimes before bed. She isn't as attached as her sister was, so I think she'll probably self wean soon. DD1 self weaned when she was 2.
4. Other than new bras and maybe a new breast pump, no.
5. None really. I'm blessed to be able to feed my children, whether through BM or through formula. I'm thankful to have had great BFing experiences, but if it isn't the same this time around, that doesn't mean I failed or that my new little bit won't be full or healthy.
20 months
2. Current challenges in nursing your toddler/baby? (Pregnancy related, or in general)
I don't have as much milk and don't feel really full anymore. It is pretty tender now. But my DD has shown no interest in slowing down. She nurses probably 5x a day and 3x a night on average.
3. Plans to wean? Tandem nurse?
I would like to night wean this summer. Some days a just feel done but maybe because she nurses so much still. I'm not too interested in tandem nursing. My goal is to have a few months of no one touching my boobs before the new baby comes. I just don't know how to cut things off. She's so attached.
4. Planning on trying any new breastfeeding products this time?
not sure. Maybe some different nipple cream.
5. What fears do you have breastfeeding a new baby? that for some reason it won't work out this time. I had SO MUCH MILK that I had to wear nursing pads for 7 months. My milk would spray everywhere when DD would unlatch. I just don't want to deal with that again but I'd take that over not having enough milk.
He's 11 months
2. Current challenges in nursing your toddler/baby? (Pregnancy related, or in general)
Very sensitive nips, painful to nurse
3. Plans to wean? Tandem nurse?
I've been slowly weaning and we haven't nursed in a few days
4. Planning on trying any new breastfeeding products this time?
Nah. Happy with what I had
5. What fears do you have breastfeeding a new baby?
I'm just hoping we don't have the latch issues that I had with my son
TL;DR very on the fence about what to do since both pedi and DH are on Team Stop Nursing and I'm so uncomfortable now when DD does it. Maybe I can stop at night time and just give in when she asks during the day? Ugh. Parenting is hard.
@karaelaine1991 I tried EVERYTHING to get my daughter to sleep better. She had good naps, no sleep props (no paci and fell asleep on her own with no nursing or rocking), she went to bed before she was overtired, we night weaned, we didn't talk or make wake-ups "interesting". Didn't work. I can only assume she was rolling over, realizing she was half-awake, and missing her mom and dad. It wasn't until about 16 months that she started waking us up only once a night. Now at 19 months she's still waking 1x most nights, with an occasional night here and there that she sleeps through. I never worried about her sleep because she was hitting or exceeding typical milestones and her temperament was good (happy, alert, not falling asleep randomly, not throwing more fits than a typical child of her age, etc.) I worried more about my own sleep!
Every baby is different - I know people who night weaned and their children started sleeping through the night within a couple of weeks - I just wanted to share our story because I don't want you to night wean if you're not ready (or you feel she's not ready) and then be disappointed if it doesn't fix the sleep issue.
Good luck @karaelaine1991!
@underthesea how often does she nurse?
My DD nurses about 5 times a day.
BFP May 16th 2016
DD born January 30 2017
Surprise BFP/MC April 2017
@ThePax89 I'm worried about how to get her to sleep too. She nurses to sleep for her nap. I know that's going to be really tough to figure out for us. I also have to switch her to a toddler bed. So did your DD just stop asking before nap? I do still have milk but not a lot. I was hoping she would self wean but that's not going to happen anytime soon. I'm going to have to intervene, but I know she's going to have a fit.
I worry about the new baby breastfeeding and DD deciding she needs to as well. However, I had major over supply problems and had to pump and donate excess milk so maybe if it happens again it'd be helpful for DD to nurse again?
I'll definitely be trying different nursing bras this time around and probably a different kind of pump. I had a very good nursing relationship with DD and won't stray too much from what I did the first time.
*TW*
TWIN LOSS 7.2.15
BFP 9.7.15 CP
BFP 12.31.15 MC 2.28.16
BFP 10.14.17 CP
BFP 3.10.18 D&C 4.13.18
Ive had several friends with your same concern. If you want to tandem nurse then I'm sure you'll be able to. But, your LO will probably be ok with a new baby nursing. Maybe she will be interested and want to snuggle as you nurse but enough time will pass between now and then that she may forget or be totally passed the idea of nursing. We will all learn together!
The the toddler bed transition stresses me out. We start today since she started escaping from her taller crib we put together for her last month. It's not going up be a fun week.
almost 11 months
2. Current challenges in nursing your toddler/baby? (Pregnancy related, or in general)
She is too nosey and easily distracted, I am not producing nearly enough and pumping at work has went from overload to drops....Super depressing
3. Plans to wean? Tandem nurse?
I stopped pumping at work and mostly nurse when with her, but have introduced formula because she is not getting what she needs. I think weaning is pretty muh my only option at this point
4. Planning on trying any new breastfeeding products this time
haven't given it much thought. trying to get over the fact that my baby girl won't be the baby too much longer.
5. What fears do you have breastfeeding a new baby
I do wonder how nursing the newbie will be while having 2 other Littles running around. Not so much a fear, more like a challenge. Haha
*TW*
TWIN LOSS 7.2.15
BFP 9.7.15 CP
BFP 12.31.15 MC 2.28.16
BFP 10.14.17 CP
BFP 3.10.18 D&C 4.13.18
*TW*
TWIN LOSS 7.2.15
BFP 9.7.15 CP
BFP 12.31.15 MC 2.28.16
BFP 10.14.17 CP
BFP 3.10.18 D&C 4.13.18