Is anyone else still nursing? (A lot!)

jessicaclark8009 · September 2012

Is anyone else still nursing and how are night feedings for you? Any of you still getting up 5+ times a night?

abloxson · September 2012

I'm still nursing but I'm cosleeping so I don't actually have to get up at night. She does wake up at least 23 times a night. The fuller she is from other foods before bed the less she wakes.

smilelari · September 2012

I nurse when we are together and send pumped milk to daycare. DD wakes up 0-1 times per night and if she wakes, I nurse side lying and we both go back to sleep.

Kaeldrasmommy · September 2012

Still nursing like crazy. LO wakes 2 times on a good night, and 6-7 on a bad one. Fortunately the bad nights seem to be getting fewer and farther between.

HBear19 · September 2012

I nurse in the morning and at night.

Usually DD wakes 0-1 times per night, and I nurse her if she does wake because it is comforting to her. I certainly don't mind once per night!

When she's sick, or teething like right now, she sometimes wakes 3-4 times, and I might nurse a little more, but it's just to put her back to sleep. I don't think she's really drinking much. And since the frequent wakings are only if something is worng, like fevers, or pain from teething, I also don't mind because overall, it is rare and I figure she just needs me a little more.

brighteyes2123 · September 2012

Still nursing, been feeling exhausted most mornings depending how often he wakes up in during the night. Some nights he gets up twice and other nights it's every hour, I don't nurse him every hour or two... I think those nights he just need reassurance mummy is still around.

Froggy76 · September 2012

I'm still nursing. I send pumped milk to daycare and recently started to supplement with formula. DD dropped her night feedings pretty consistently at about 2 months old, so I can't comment on that. She STTN at least 11 hours straight.

She has been VERY clingy lately and wanting to nurse pretty often when we're together. This is a big change for her because she never had strong hunger cues and rarely demanded to be fed. She also never seemed to nurse for comfort before, but now she wants to all the time. I think it makes her gums feel better.

drcolleen · September 2012

I nurse through the evenings and on days off, then DD2 sleeps 930/10p - ~9a and DH gives her bottles of BM while I'm at work. She has no teeth yet but I expect a few less than STTNs in our future.

jb2rn · September 2012

I am so glad it's not just us! Ds nurses every 3.5 hours or so. Between 630pm and 630am he wakes 2-3 times.

jessicaclark8009 · September 2012

Thank you for the replies! We are also co-sleeping. I feel like a lot of people look down on this. I have been told time and time again to put DS in his crib and let him cry himself to sleep. I just can't do it! But it's good to know I'm not the only one! Smile

duffmaker · September 2012

We're still nursing! I hope to go until a year, so we will see.

No night feedings for us, DD started sleeping through the night a month or so ago? Maybe longer, I'm not totally sure. We nurse to sleep sometime between 8 and 9pm then she wakes up between 7:30 and 8am. From then she'll nurse about every 4 hours. So 3-4 times a day.

RedCamaro · September 2012

We are. DS is every 2-3 hours, sometimes 4 hours. At night he's up 2-3 times a night on average. A lot more when he's sick.

lcatack · September 2012

We are too. We just started putting DD in her crib for the first stretch at night (she seems to be sleeping better that way, which makes me sad cause I love bedsharing) then she comes back to bed with us and nurses usually 2 times before morning. Thankfully I can bring her back to our bed and sleep through the feeds (unless she's feisty and kicking me in the stomach while she nurses....).

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