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EmmieB
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Is he weaning? Is this a nursing strike?
EmmieB
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Bunny has recently cut waaay back on his nursing. To the point that he will be hungry (and I'll be FULL) and he won't latch on to drink. And then when I give him water (or milk if I have it pumped) he'll gulp it down. He's only nursing if he's starving. Or it's night time.
I don't want to force him to nurse because I don't want it to be stressful, but at the same time he's cutting a tooth (his second bottom front) and is super clingy and whiny and my poor nipples...so I can't get a decent chance to pump.
Did anyone else go through this? Any advice?
TIA!
oh - and he still refuses most solids. I can barely get him to actually ingest the tiny bites he takes off of our plates, so I know he's still only getting nutrients from me.
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Re: Is he weaning? Is this a nursing strike?
Hmmm . . . could he have figured out drinking from a cup/sippy is faster? Maybe that he has more freedom of movement and can keep looking at the world?
Sounds like a strike to me. Will he still nurse in a quiet, non-distracting place? At night there's nothing else to do or see but during the day it sounds like he's too busy exploring to nurse.
Good luck and hope it ends soon!
DD went through a nursing strike when she was cutting one (or both?) of her top teeth. She was about 11 months old at the time. I nearly exhausted my freezer supply giving her bottles of EBM. I suspected it was a strike because she still wanted to be held as if she were nursing and she wanted me to give her the bottle (she would get hysterical if DH tried to give it to her), even though I never gave her bottles myself before that point.
Kellymom had a lot of helpful information for me, just poke around on the site and search for "nursing strike." I pumped as regularly as I could to relieve engorgement and encourage continued production and at the end of 5 days, DD decided to nurse again.
It was a really hard experience, I feel for you.
DD was very interested in the environment at that age. I tried to mainly nurse in her nursery with the lights down or the white noise machine on to drown out the other noises. Or I would do a lot of side-lying nursing which seemed to help relax her to nurse.
Ok, that's what I thought. So I will pump and give him a cup/bottle so he gets his nutrients.
We just tried nursing in our bed (I have the crib side-car'd) and he nursed a little and then tried to crawl around while latched and when he realized that a) my nipple stays on me and b)I was having none of that, he unlatched and proceeded to crawl and pull up and crawl and lick my face and latch onto my ankle...but given what his teeth have done to my nipples, I guess this is a little blessing so I can heal.
Thanks ladies!