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bluejayway
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Tell me about how often your 19 m/o BFs
bluejayway
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Just curious. DD's 12 months right now and still breastfeeding (she's never taken a bottle and has always been quite adamantly a boob fan), and I am 11 weeks pregnant with my second. I think my supply has dropped a bit, as DD gets kind of frustrated, but she is still nursing about 4x per day, and once early in the morning...all very quick sessions, but she really needs it prior to a nap and bedtime.
She will be 19 months old when the new kiddo arrives. Even if you're not pregnant, I am just wondering how quickly your baby dropped off feeds after a year. I'd like to be finished totally a month or two before the second arrives, but I don't want to cut back too quickly or make it really traumatic on DD.
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Re: Tell me about how often your 19 m/o BFs
DD is 14 months. I started weaning her from daytime nursing a few weeks before she turned one. I still continue to nurse her first thing in the a.m. and before bed. Within the last week (right around turning 14 mo), she has been nursing less and less in the morning, sometimes only on one side. It seems like she's weaning herself from that session.
Don't most drs. recommend you stop nursing after a certain point of pregnancy b/c it may induce labor?
DD is 13 months. We just over the last week cut out the day time feeds (may do it some days) but the morning/night are still going. I am not sure what she will drop first. So I would say get rid of daytime feeds as quickly as you can and then try for one of the others.
DD will be 19 months tomorrow.
She nurses a teeny bit in the morning - like 30 seconds.
She sometimes nurses when we get home from school - about 4 minutes. But if she goes out to play, we skip this one.
She nurses a teeny bit at night - like 60 seconds.
If she STTN, that's it for the day. If she wakes up in the middle of the night, she will drain both sides - maybe 10 minutes.
I would say from 12 months to 16 months I saw no change in the frequency and duration of her nursing. After 16 months, she started to shorten the sessions, but not the frequency. Just recently, she'll start skipping sessions if she would rather read or play.
Forgot to add - we are doing true baby-led weaning at home- so I offer at all our normal times and she can choose to nurse or not. I led the daytime weaning - because she is at daycare and had to move up to the toddler room where they don't get bottles. My understanding is that most babies will not self-wean until 2 years - sometimes more.
No, not at all. In a low-risk, normal pregnancy, there is no reason to stop if mom and babies are healthy. It's more for convenience. And yikes, sore nipples.