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Extended BF weekly check-in (6/5/13)

Happy Wednesday Nursing Mammas!

(For the purposes of this post nursing past one year is considered extended. Lurkers welcome. Questions are occasionally recycled)

1. How old is your nursing LO(s)?

2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does  your bedtime routine look like?

3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them?

4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it?

5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it.

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Re: Extended BF weekly check-in (6/5/13)

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    1. How old is your nursing LO(s)? 21 months

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does  your bedtime routine look like? Most nights we nurse to sleep. Sometimes he will still be awake when done nursing and then I or DH have to sit in his room in the dark (reading off the phone usually) while he tosses and turns in the crib and puts himself to sleep. This can take up to 40-50 minutes! Ugh. I like it better when he conks out on the breast.

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them?

    Nope. No night feedings for more than six months I think. It helped when DH would go to him at night to soothe him. 

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it?

    Didn't do it before. Not sure if I would be up for it. 

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it.

    I'll be on vacation next week. Can someone volunteer to start the thread please?

    Oh and I'm yet another proof that you don't have to wean to get KU ;) I'm in shock but the plus sign was unmistakable. Because my cycles were not yet regulated I'm not sure whether I'm 6 or 8 (or more?) weeks along. Didn't notice a supply drop but then again I think my supply has been low since we went to two sessions a day.

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  • imagelitzo27:

    Happy Wednesday Nursing Mammas!

    (For the purposes of this post nursing past one year is considered extended. Lurkers welcome. Questions are occasionally recycled)

    1. How old is your nursing LO(s)?     13 Months

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does  your bedtime routine look like?  Yes, it is the ONLY way LO will fall asleep.  We do bath, stories, nurse to sleep in our bed.

    3.Do you still have night feedings?  YES.  LO still nurses several times throughout the night; we co-sleep so it makes it much easier.  I won't look to wean from night feeding until at least 18 months...hoping it happens naturally.

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it?   I haven't done it as LO is my only child at this point. But I would be willing to try.

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it.

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    1. How old is your nursing LO(s)?  13 months

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does  your bedtime routine look like? Up until a month ago we nursed to sleep.  We decided to change our bedtime routine so that we could get teeth brushed after nursing.  Now we nurse, brush teeth & DH rocks DD for a few minutes before he puts her down awake.  She usually talks to herself for a minute or two before she conks out.  I was concerned with this at first because she seemed so dependent on nursing to sleep (plus, I loved it) but she now reaches for DH as soon as her teeth are brushed and he gets a little extra snuggle time with her too, which he loves.

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them?  Usually 1 MOTN feeding 3 or 4 times a week

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it? DD is my only babe, but I'd definitely consider it should we decide to get pg again.

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    1. How old is your nursing LO(s)?  14 months

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does  your bedtime routine look like?

     No. Bath, nurse in the living room while we watch Jeopardy with DH, then walk back to the bedroom and I lay her down with her bunny, rub her head for a bit and then walk out. I would like to start reading books again now that she is showing more interest and doesn't rip the pages the second they are near her.

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them?

    No, hasn't nursed overnight since 3 months old, other than occasional instances due to sickness, etc 

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it?

    Probably not, mostly because I don't plan to get pregnant until DD is closer to 3. 

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it.

    I wasn't sure how long we would continue nursing past a year. I thought maybe we would be done before we leave DD for a weekend in July, but doesn't look like that will happen since its only a month away. DD had Roseola last week and nursed almost nonstop for 3 days. It was exhausting after being down to only 2 times per day for the past few months. I'm not good at telling her NO when she looks at me and signs "Milk" so nicely. I'm afraid the older she gets, the harder it will be to wean.

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  • 1.  25 months

    2. No, he hasn't nursed to sleep in a long time. He gave it up himself. I do nurse him in his bed for a few minutes, but then we cuddle for a bit and I leave.

    3. Night weaned at 18 months... mostly. He's snuck a 530 am nurse in (and then a 630 am wake up nurse, and sometimes a "mommy's leaving for work" nurse at 710). I need to get tough about not nursing at 530 to see if he'll go back to sleeping through to 630. I need that uninterrupted sleep back. 

    I pretty much did Ferber at 18 months - just check-ins at intervals overnight. Thank God it was when he was in his crib. He actually only took about 3 or 4 months to give it up, and he was waking every 2 hours before that.

    4. Could happen. Give me 9 weeks and I'll let you know. So far, I still have milk this pregnancy. Not sure how he'll feel about colostrum.

    5. I am getting  some "pregnancy agitation" with nursing now. It just annoys me. Definitely a challenge.

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    1. Just about 13 months

    2. Around 11 months, DS stopped nursing to sleep.  Now, he is very sleepy, unlatches, and lays back looking like he wants to roll over so  I put him in his crib very sleepy and he rolls over right away and goes to bed.  Probably once a week, I hold him and rock him while staring at his cute face!

    3.Do you still have night feedings? Yes.  We're down to 1 night feed which he is slowly pushing back himself.  It used to be 3am, then 4am, and this last week it's been at 5:30 (will nurse for 10 mins and go back to sleep til 7:30/8.) The 5:30 time is brutal because then I'm basically up for the day.  We'll give him another couple weeks to see if he goes longer himself.  

    4. I just have one LO for now and don't plan to have a 2nd til LO is closer to 3.

    5.  DS has been off bottles since 11 months and I stopped pumping at 12 months, but finally this week I sanitized all the bottles and pump parts and will pack them away this weekend for the next one.

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  • Congrats on the pregnancy, litzo! 

    1. How old is your nursing LO(s)?

    14 mo

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does  your bedtime routine look like?

    We nurse right before bed but I try to lay him down drowsy but awake.

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them?

    Yes, we're down to once/night. I'll keep it for awhile.

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it?

    Only have 1 LO right now but I would consider it.

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it.

    Down to 1 pumping session at work, woohoo!

  • 1. How old is your nursing LO(s)?20 months

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does  your bedtime routine look like? I nurse before sleep, but not to sleep, if that makes sense.  Bedtime looks like this: bath, pajamas, story time with daddy.  Then I come in nurse and sing a lullabye or two (or 3 last night).

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them? Before Saturday I would say no - he dropped them on his own at 14 months.  We did night nursing Saturday night and Monday night (thankfully not last night, so I'm hoping we're done again)

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it?I haven't and I don't plan on it, but only because of child spacing.  My kids (knock on wood) will be far enough apart that I don't think it would really be an option.
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  • Big SmileCongrats Litzo! I'm envious!
    imagelitzo27:

    Happy Wednesday Nursing Mammas!

    (For the purposes of this post nursing past one year is considered extended. Lurkers welcome. Questions are occasionally recycled)

    1. How old is your nursing LO(s)? Just turned 17 months

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does  your bedtime routine look like? Sometimes. The routine is: bath, lotion, pjs, a few books, pull the blacout curtains down, white noise, nurse. Sometimes he falls asleep nursing and will wake when I place him in the crib just enough to roll over and is out. Most of the time though he gets sleepy nursing but doesn't actually fall asleep.

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them? I eliminated them in March when we sleep trained with Sleep Lady Shuffle. I was bedsharing and nursing all night long before that. I pumped a few times each night during the sleep training because I never thought it would work and I would need to go back to nursing all night so I wanted to keep my supply. After eight nights I was in shock that the training actually worked. He STTN for five weeks but then got sick and I went back to comfort nursing during the night. That was a bad idea because now it's been weeks and we are still trying to get him to STTN again.

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it? DS is my first so I haven't, but I love nursing so much I think I would like to try it. However, I think I may be one of those people who needs to completely wean to get KU so tandem nursing may not be an option for me. Sad

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it. Share: Sometimes after nursing DS says bye bye to my boobs. Question: How did you get your nursling to sign for milk or verbally ask for it? (My DS doesn't seem to get it. He doesn't talk much - was evaluated for speech and just tested out by a hair).

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  • imagelitzo27:
    Happy Wednesday Nursing Mammas!

    1. How old is your nursing LOs?
    I just joined you ladies since he turned one a few weeks ago!

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what doesnbsp; your bedtime routine look like?
    Yes most nights he still nurses to sleep

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No Yes how did you do you plan to eliminate them
    Most of the time he's only nursing at 5:30 or 6 and then we cuddle for awhile

    ?4.Tandem nursing have you done it? Would you do it?
    No and no, I weaned my middle at 12 months so I could have 6 months off before my youngest was born. I couldn't handle it.

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation please post it.

    I am so happy to have found the bump!! When I started nursing my first I never would have thought nursing past one would be something I'd do. Now I can't imagine stoping at a year. Thank you all
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    Big SmileCongrats Litzo! I'm envious!
    imagelitzo27:

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it. Share: Sometimes after nursing DS says bye bye to my boobs. Question: How did you get your nursling to sign for milk or verbally ask for it? (My DS doesn't seem to get it. He doesn't talk much - was evaluated for speech and just tested out by a hair).

    DD signs for milk and to be honest, I'm really surprised she picked it up. Its one of the signs I had only done a few times. A few weeks ago she just started doing it randomly. Just try to sign it every time you say the word or start to pull up your shirt. And she doesn't talk either (a bit younger though). I'm trying to be patient, but I'm excited for her to say something, anything! 

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    Happy Wednesday Nursing Mammas!

    (For the purposes of this post nursing past one year is considered extended. Lurkers welcome. Questions are occasionally recycled)

    1. How old is your nursing LO(s)? 

      25 months 

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does  your bedtime routine look like?

      Not  to sleep.  We do a diaper change, get in to Pjs, then she'll nurse, brush her teeth and into her crib.  Sometimes we sing a song before getting into bed.  When I work night shift Daddy gives her a cup of milk instead of nursing. 

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them?

    Nope.  I didn't have to do anything to eliminate them.  DD has been awesome and pretty much started dropping feedings herself as she got older. 

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it?

    I haven't, but would consider it.  Though at this point if we have another I don't think I'll have to even consider it. 

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it.

    Hi ladies!  I'm don't usually bump on Wednesday, so I miss this thread.  I'm glad to hear from others who nurse beyond one year though :) 

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  • 1. How old is your nursing LO(s)?  18 months

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does  your bedtime routine look like?  Yes I nurse to sleep every night.  We lay down in my bed, she nurses and falls asleep and then I put her in her crib.  When I am not home, she falls asleep in the living room with DH (usually about an hour after her regular bedtime, but it works).

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them?  Very rarely.  The only time lately she's needed to nurse overnight was when she had a few teeth coming through or was sick.  Usually when she wakes overnight, she just needs to be rocked back to sleep.  

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it?  I haven't, DD is my only baby.  I'm not sure if I"d want to.  I prefer to wean her before getting pg.

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it.  About 4 months ago I realized I had lost almost all of my baby weight!!  But then I went a little overboard, added to the fact that I wasn't making as much milk as I previously had, and all of the sudden I've packed 5-7 lbs back on.  Oops! 

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  • 1. How old is your nursing LO(s)? 17 months

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does your bedtime routine look like? Sometimes, but not every night. If DH puts him to bed (by lying down next to him, rubbing his back, etc.), DS can fall asleep without nursing. If I put him to bed, DS refuses to fall asleep without nursing.

    3. Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them? Yes. We bedshare, so I think that contributes to the night feedings. We plan to transition him to his own room in the next few months as we prepare for baby #2 and hopefully that will cut down the night feedings from 2 to 1 to eventually none.

    4. Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it? I haven't done it yet and never planned to do it, but the only thing I've really learned as a parent is to never "plan" anything. DS is still happily nursing and shows no plans to wean himself. I am having no nipple pain yet and am still comfortable nursing him. Should things change for him or for me, we'll reconsider. As of right now, tandem nursing seems like a real possibility for us.

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it.

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  • Congrats, Litzo on your pg!  Tokenhoser, I can't believe you only have 9 weeks left before your LO is here.  Wow times flies.

    1.  DS is 17 months.

    2.  He stopped NTS around 13 months b/c I felt it contributed to his night wakings.  We do bath, nurse, book and then into the crib awake.  It takes him 10 minutes of rolling around and talking to himself and then he is out.

    3.  Thankfully, for the past month, no more night feedings!  It got to the point where I just had to turn off the monitor and close our doors so I didn't hear him get up during the night and it only took a couple nights but he now sleeps until 6:30/7am.

    4.  We are "one and done" so I won't have the opportunity to tandem nurse, but I feel strongly enough about bf-ing I would like to say if I had a baby before DS turned 2, I would. 

     

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    5.  DS has been off bottles since 11 months and I stopped pumping at 12 months, but finally this week I sanitized all the bottles and pump parts and will pack them away this weekend for the next one.

    I remember being so excited to do that when I stopped pumping at work. But then I had to get them out twice anyway because of overnight trips without baby :)

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    However, I think I may be one of those people who needs to completely wean to get KU so tandem nursing may not be an option for me. Sad

    I forgot if you said it last time but have  your cycles not returned at all or just irregular? With DS1 and DS2 I was really trying to time the pregnancies and my cycles were a bit wonky so I actually invested in the clearblue electronic ovulation monitor to make sure I didn't miss the window. If your really want to "catch the first egg" may be worth it.

    Thanks for the congrats. What's the bump saying? "sending baby dust" your way? :)

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    I just joined you ladies since he turned one a few weeks ago!

    Welcome!

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    Hi ladies!  I'm don't usually bump on Wednesday, so I miss this thread.  I'm glad to hear from others who nurse beyond one year though :) 

    You should still answer whenever you can get to the bump. Most of us come back to the thread to read what the people answering after us have written :)

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  • Thanks Lisac - can you start the thread next week?
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  • Thanks for the baby dust! They haven't returned at all- not even by dropping night feedings plus two pumping sessions abruptly. Someone on the bump said drastically changing frequency suddenly could trick your body into AF coming back. My sister said with both her babies she started having signs that AF was coming. I've had no signs at all. I never thought I'd actually want my period lol. Does that monitor tell you when the first egg is coming? I will look into it thanks for the suggestion!
    imagelitzo27:

    imagebrideinsummer04:

    However, I think I may be one of those people who needs to completely wean to get KU so tandem nursing may not be an option for me. Sad

    I forgot if you said it last time but have  your cycles not returned at all or just irregular? With DS1 and DS2 I was really trying to time the pregnancies and my cycles were a bit wonky so I actually invested in the clearblue electronic ovulation monitor to make sure I didn't miss the window. If your really want to "catch the first egg" may be worth it.

    Thanks for the congrats. What's the bump saying? "sending baby dust" your way? :)

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  • imagelitzo27:
    Thanks Lisac - can you start the thread next week?

     Definitely!  :)

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  • 1. How old is your nursing LO(s)? 21 months

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does your bedtime routine look like?
    Yes.  Oy vey.

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them?
    Yes.  It's been a rough road with aednoid surgery, much sickness and silent reflux making me uncomfortable with sleep training.  At this point though, I am really not doing well on so little sleep and we need to stop.  I am trying to figure out what our approach will be.  Sometimes she goes from 8 PM - 4 or 5 AM with no nursing, but that is still not the majority of nights and it needs to be.  Gotta figure this out.

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it?
    Nope.  I'm hoping to be a 1 and done mama.

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it.

    Frankly, I'm tired.  I am really at this point interested in weaning, but DD is really NOT interested yet.  When I am with her she asks for "mi" a LOT.  I'm trying to limit her constant "check in" nursing during the day, but then wonder if I should let her nurse a lot during the day and more actively discourage the night feedings.  I think her constant sickness and reflux earlier in life have made for some very bad habits and expectations.  She is also very strong willed and I have not been tough enough.  I'm going to spend the next few weeks thinking up a new plan, and then implement it after my busy season at work.

  •  Hi Jess!ca, Just wanted to say that encouraging more of the day feeding and cutting the night nursing worked for us. My DS is very strong willed too and was nursing all night long before we sleep trained. I never thought it would actually work but it did... until we stopped being consistent. If and when you sleep train make sure you're super consistent bc the second you cave it could be starting from scratch again! At least that's how it's going with us. Good luck, I hope you get some sleep!  
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    1. How old is your nursing LO(s)? 21 months

    2. Are you nursing to sleep? If not what does your bedtime routine look like?
    Yes.  Oy vey.

    3.Do you still have night feedings? If No (Yes) how did you (do you plan to) eliminate them?
    Yes.  It's been a rough road with aednoid surgery, much sickness and silent reflux making me uncomfortable with sleep training.  At this point though, I am really not doing well on so little sleep and we need to stop.  I am trying to figure out what our approach will be.  Sometimes she goes from 8 PM - 4 or 5 AM with no nursing, but that is still not the majority of nights and it needs to be.  Gotta figure this out.

    4.Tandem nursing - have you done it? Would you do it?
    Nope.  I'm hoping to be a 1 and done mama.

    5. Anything else you want to share this week. If you have a question you want me to put into rotation - please post it.

    Frankly, I'm tired.  I am really at this point interested in weaning, but DD is really NOT interested yet.  When I am with her she asks for "mi" a LOT.  I'm trying to limit her constant "check in" nursing during the day, but then wonder if I should let her nurse a lot during the day and more actively discourage the night feedings.  I think her constant sickness and reflux earlier in life have made for some very bad habits and expectations.  She is also very strong willed and I have not been tough enough.  I'm going to spend the next few weeks thinking up a new plan, and then implement it after my busy season at work.

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