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• Emerald27 member

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  1. How old is LO? 27 months
  

  2. Have you begun ovulating pp? What are you doing this cycle? BBT, CM, PNVs and VitD

  3. Cycle/Month 8/9

  4. How do you feel about this cycle? Very hopeful. Timing was good and chart is pretty.

  5. Questions/ Concerns/ Joys/ Rants/ Stories about breastfeeding this week: none, still happily nursing DS on demand

  
  

  GTKY: Do you and LO have a special word for nursing? If LO is still too little to have a "code word", have you thought about what you might have him/her call nursing when the time comes? 

  
  

  DS calls nursing/breasts "bees", and says "want some bees", "yummy bees", "bees, please", and such. Now that he says "please" it's less important, but when he first started to say "bees", it sounded like he was saying "please" which was very sweet and polite. I stole "bees" from a friend whose children say it, thinking that I'd prefer a code word to "boobies". 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• jcsumm0 member

  January 2014

  I love "bees" @Emerald27 !  I just call it nursing and she calls my boobs "nurses."  "Mommy has nurses.  Dada only nipples." 
  
  I just came in to say I guess I am out of this check-in because DD has self-weaned!  I cannot believe it, I still think it hasn't really sunk in although she's only nursed once in the last week and a half.  Like everyone who's nursed a 2 year old (I think) I thought she would never want to stop.  We were down to naptime and bedtime with some gentle mother-led/don't ask don't refuse weaning for the past several months.  Then last Sunday my MIL put her down for a nap while she was babysitting and then she didn't ask that night.  I held my breath because I knew she would would ask again.  I talked it over with my friend and LLL leader who's nursed 5 kids, and she said usually even if they ask again they only try for a moment and then realize they don't really remember how/don't really want it any more.  So Friday night when she said, "I forgot to nurse!" I held my breath and let her, and she just nursed a few seconds on each side and then just asked me to sing to her and hold her.  And she hasn't asked since then.
  
  Like I said I am still in shock and I don't really think that I have processed it yet.  I was mostly ready to be done because I'd been having a nursing aversion, but I wanted to nurse her as long as she needed it.  I am very very grateful it happened on her terms.
  
  Sorry for the novel, but it feels good to get that all out there!  Thanks so much for the support from this check-in!  I'll be lurking and wishing you all the very best!
  

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• mb314 member

  January 2014

  1. How old is LO? 16 months
  

  2. Have you begun ovulating pp? What are you doing this cycle?  This is my first pp cycle, and my first time ever temping.  I think my chart is a mess because I don't think I get 3 hour stretches in the early morning hours thanks to night nursing and I don't take my temp in the middle of the night. 
  

  3. Cycle/Month 1/1
  

  4. How do you feel about this cycle?  Unless I'm super lucky and I ovulated early (which I'm pretty sure I didn't), there's no chance for conceiving this cycle.  DH is out of town indefinitely because his mom is in the hospital. 
  

  5. Questions/ Concerns/ Joys/ Rants/ Stories about breastfeeding this week:  I am enjoying the middle of the night nursing sessions a little more since DH is out of town and it is just DS and me in bed.
  

  
  

  GTKY: Do you and LO have a special word for nursing? If LO is still too little to have a "code word", have you thought about what you might have him/her call nursing when the time comes?  I don't really have one.  We just nurse before bed and in the middle of the night (and before naps on the weekend).  He knows when it is time to nurse, so there's no need for a code word.  I don't want to encourage it other times.
  

  

     
  

  

   

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• NL15 member

  January 2014

  1. How old is LO? 12.5 months
  

  2. Have you begun ovulating pp? What are you doing this cycle? Yes, this is our first cycle TTC. Doing the usuals.
  

  3. Cycle/Month 1/1
  

  4. How do you feel about this cycle? Can't help but get my hopes up especially now that I'm in the 2WW, even though I keep telling myself to be realistic and not expect anything the first cycle.
  

  5. Questions/ Concerns/ Joys/ Rants/ Stories about breastfeeding this week: DD has decided she needs a MOTN snack once again, which has messed with my temps the last few days. For example, yesterday she woke up at 3:30am, and I had to get up at 6 for work, so I temped at 3:30 before I went to her since I knew I wouldn't be getting another 3 hrs after that. Of course, 3:30 is way too early...so it's either I get an open circle for being too early, or I temp at my normal time and don't get as accurate of a temp - so far I've been choosing to temp early even though it means an open circle as opposed to waiting. Is that ok? Any advice (I'm new to temping this cycle)??
  
  

  GTKY: Do you and LO have a special word for nursing? If LO is still too little to have a "code word", have you thought about what you might have him/her call nursing when the time comes?  Nothing yet, she's still too young. I have taught her some sign language, and she can sign "milk", so we'll probably just keep going with that. @Emerald27 - "bees" is cute - I like it!
  

  

  

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• Emerald27 member

  January 2014

  @NL15 I temp at the same time every day, despite night wakings and bedsharing part of the night. I set my alarm for 5:30am, and I've usually gotten at least a couple hours of good sleep at that point, but not always. My charts aren't perfect, but O is still quite obvious:
  
  
  
  So I'm a big fan of setting an alarm and temping at the same time each day. But you have to figure out what works best for you too. Care to link your chart?
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• NL15 member

  January 2014

  @Emerald27 - got it linked in my siggy!
  Today's was crazy low - I was up with DD at 4am and didn't temp then - I realize now I should have because she was up again at 5:30. I guess I need to stop worrying so much about the time and just always temp the first time I wake up no matter how early?
  

  

  

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• NL15 member

  January 2014

  theresat858 said:

  NL15 said:

  @Emerald27 - got it linked in my siggy!
  Today's was crazy low - I was up with DD at 4am and didn't temp then - I realize now I should have because she was up again at 5:30. I guess I need to stop worrying so much about the time and just always temp the first time I wake up no matter how early?
  

  This is what I do. If I get 3 hours of sleep again before 7am, I temp again at 7 and use that temp.
  

  @theresat858, I'm a little leery to temp twice - I've seen a few people on this board say it's a no-no. I guess you have to do what works though...thanks for the input.
  

  

  

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