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June 2011 Moms
jcsumm0
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Those planning on extended BFing...
jcsumm0
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How much is your LO nursing, and are you nursing at set times or on demand? How does timing work with meals v. nursing?
I'm finding it hard to get out of the mindset of nursing being her primary source of nutrition. She does great with solids, but she still nurses a lot too. I'm sort of trying to seperate out nursing times from meal times so that she is hungry for both, but it doesn't always work. Yesterday she wanted to nurse right before dinner, so I let her, but then she hardly ate anything, which could just be a fluke I guess. I was just wondering what others were doing because I feel sort of overwhelmed by it all! It was so much easier when BFing was all I had to think about!
Also, as a side note, I am just loving nursing at this age. The other day she was whining about who knows what, and I was getting undressed to take a shower. She saw my boobs, stopped whining, got a huge grin on her face, and waved at them! So cute! Anyone have any other cute stories to share?
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Re: Those planning on extended BFing...
Our schedule goes something like this:
Early morning wake up to nurse around 5:30 or 6am then back to sleep
Up for the day at 7:30ish - nurse first thing
He usually asks to nurse once or twice more before breakfast at 9 (yeah, lots of nursing in the morning!)
Nurse before 10:30am nap
Sometimes nurse after nap
Lunch around 1
Nurse around 2 or 2:30
Nurse before 3:30 nap
Sometimes nurse after nap
Dinner around 6
Nurse before bed at 7:30
He likes his milk for sure.
I don't know what I'm doing... I feel like she has gotten more frequent with the BFing which seems not good. I feel like she is always pulling my boobs out.
She's hit or miss on the solids too... I feel like she eats well but I don't know. I should probably be better about not letting her nurse all the time.
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That's lots of nursing all day! I don't think I'd be able to do that much even if I weren't pregnant!
I don't know if it counts as extended BFing since I got her weaned down to once a day...and is it anything past 1 year is extended? Emma has a cup of WCM with breakfast and lunch and then nurses about an hour after dinner, right around 7 pm. With dinner she gets water. I'll probably wean w/in the next month b/c I'm not interested in tandem nursing and I'm afraid if I wait too long, she'll want to start again. But after I was in a big hurry to decrease the number of feedings, I'm having a hard time relinquishing this last one. And I have a feeling she might have a hard time with it as well
I just can't envision myself nursing a newborn all the time and then having my toddler want to with my sore nips and all that. I don't know though, maybe I won't be able to give it up before November...(crap, but how would that go with her spending a long weekend with the IL's in October while I'm out of state? I haven't pumped since I don't know, February? Probably longer than that. Would her still wanting to nurse while I'm gone make things hard on the IL's?)
Gym: That's about how much Evie nurses too!
Lolly: I don't know what the technical defintion of "extended" is. I know some people would say anything over a year.
Maybe the trip would be a good time to wean? She might be so distracted by doing new things w/the IL's that she won't even notice. It's a long time from now--I would just keep doing what you are doing for now if it works for both of you!
We pretty much do set times now. I'm not going to BF much longer than another couple months probably. I don't know, maybe we'll keep the night/morning sessions for awhile yet. I'm kinda just winging it. Anyway, we're down to 4 times a day now, and this is after weeks and weeks of slowly dropping down from 9x/day. She eats solids pretty well now, but hates WCM, so I am very hesitant to stop BF'ing until she starts drinking the WCM better. Right now our schedule is this:
6:30ish - wake up and nurse first thing
8:00 - breakfast
9:45 - nurse before nap
12:00 - lunch
1:45 - nurse before nap
4:00 - we just officially dropped this BF session yesterday, so I offer a snack, and if she ever asks to nurse at this time, I won't refuse, but she rarely asks
5:15ish - dinner
7:00 - nurse before bed
We're actually just down to twice a day now - morning and afternoon (when I work) or bedtime (when I'm off). I started giving her bottles of frozen milk for the other two sessions just this past weekend. I love breastfeeding, and I agree that this age is the absolute best for it, but I'm sick to death of my pump. Now I have the best of both worlds: I still get to BF her and I don't have to pump. :-)
She doesn't eat much in terms of quantity of solids yet, but toddlers need less food than babies do, so I don't worry about it. If she's hungry, she'll eat.
Cute stories: She likes to growl at me while she's eating. I call her my little tiger and she giggles.
I still nurse on her cue, but here's what her pattern generally looks like:
Wakes up around 6/6:30 am - nurses
Nurses again shortly after that
Breakfast
AM Nap 1 - nurses before and after
Lunch
PM Nap 2 - nurses before and after
Dinner
Nurse before bedtime
Somedays she BFs more frequently than others, but it's usually around 6-8 times a day still, despite eating solids 3 times a day. It honestly doesn't bother me in the least because all it requires from me is to sit there and hold my little girl ....no effort at all.
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The schedule on the weekdays is more standard:
Sometimes wake between 3 - 4 am to nurse (usually not - yea!)
Wake at 6:00 - nurse
breakfast at daycare (solids) - 8:30
expressed milk bottle at 9:30 (5oz)
lunch at daycare (solids) - 11:30am
expressed milk bottle at 1:30pm (5oz)
snack at 3:30 (solids)
sometimes nurse when I get home - 4:30 pm
dinner at 5:30 (solids)
nurse before bed at 7:30
I think he gets less milk on the weekends. He doesn't usually initiate nursing unless he's tired on the weekends and he doesn't get the bottles.
I have a couple of favorite things about nursing now. He will reach at my nose and I will make a piggy noise and he giggles while nursing (I will probably regret doing this, but its fun!). The other is that he knows the sign for "nurse." If I make the sign and he's hungry he will run to me and nuzzle me - then he keeps doing the sign while he nurses. So cute!
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This is the case here too! If I only whip out one, she cries and claws at my clothing. And she switches back and forth a bunch of times. As far as playing with the other nipple- it doesn't hurt so much as feels weird and I don't like it. So, I cover it up with my clothes or put my hand over it when she does that.
In just the last few weeks, DD has started nursing less (for reference, I think a few weeks ago, I said she was nursing 8-10 x a day.
Now, she nurses when she wakes up in the morning, once in the late morning pre-nap, once in the mid-afternoon pre-nap, and in the evening before bed. She usually gets up 2x to nurse overnight. She eats 3 solid meals a day and an afternoon snack (I count the late morning nursing session as her morning snack). There's always the occasional nursing to soothe her if she's fussy or fell.
This is all very new, as she was a baby who nursed all the time from day 1. I can tell my supply has decreased; I haven't leaked in 3 weeks, and I'd usually wake up every day with giant wet spots on my shirt for the last 11 months. Yesterday, she went seven waking hours without nursing, a first, and I didn't even feel that full.
We want to TTC in the fall, so I will probably wean her then if AF doesn't show up before then. The thought of weaning makes me sad, but I can see that she needs less milk and enjoys solids more, so she's getting there on her own. I know she won't self-wean anytime soon, but she is becoming less dependent on the boob.
As for a cute story: Anytime I'm holding her, she sticks her hand down my shirt/bra and just leaves it there. She did it with a friend over the weekend.
This is almost exactly us on weekends, sometimes there's an extra one in the afternoon. He also eats a snack around 3. I've been trying to not nurse him if he's just about due for a meal or snack. But if he wants after, I let him.
On weekdays he nurses when he wakes up, and before bed. Sometimes a third session when I first get home from work.
Lately I've been wearing tank tops with this heat and he this as an open buffet. He will stick his hand in my shirt right after he finished nursing, then laugh! I'm trying not to encourage this, So Far it hasn't happened in public
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I also started back to work part time (usually just 3-4 hours a day) so I think she has picked up nursing more because it's like "Mammas home, but I have to make sure it's her!! MILK!!!" and then she seems to nurse more after I have been away for a bit even if she ate big kid food.