** BF & Pre-BF Check In**

Re: ** BF & Pre-BF Check In**

• TheDairyQueenx3 member

  March 2014

  1. How old are your LOs: 4 months and 3 days
  

  
  

  2. Short term/ Long term goals: 6 months and long term passed a year 

  
  

  3. Accomplishments / Struggles: We passed our first long term goal by a month!! I get so excited to watch their weights go up and up knowing its all due to my hard work! No struggles but I am getting nervous for our first very long road trip to family who is VERY unsupporting in my choice to BF. So should be interesting. My mom FF me and sister so she thinks its kinda weird. 

  
  

  4. EBF, EPing, Supplementing?: EBF with the one supplement bottle at night (1-3 oz) depending on if they need it or not. 

  
  

  5. Any questions this week?: Not this week

  
  

  GTKY:  I put bendy straws in a toothbrush container and keep in in my diaper bag so when we are at restaurants that don't have them I can pull a clean one out and give it to my toddler since the ones that are straight don't seem to work as well for him! 

  
  

  
  

  Together 6 wonderful years.

  TTC #1 18 months 1 loss DX unexplained IF-- BFP July 2009-- ITS A BOY

  TTC #2 3 years and 3 losses DX PCOS -- BFP April 2013-- TWIN BOYS!

  ~DS1-Feb 2010~ 

  ~DS2&3- Nov 2013  {7 weeks early}~ TTC #4~

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• ntdane member

  March 2014

  
  
  1. How old are your LOs: 4 weeks
  
  2. Short term/ Long term goals: 
  3 months/1 year
  
  3. Accomplishments / Struggles: 
  DS' latch was starting to bother me more so I took a closer look at his mouth. I think he may have a partial tongue-tie, which could also be part of the reason he's gaining so much slower than his sister. We meet with a LC tomorrow. Otherwise still struggling to get a stash going. They want to eat all the time, and if I do get some pumped DH ends up using it if I leave the house for more than 20 min.
  
  4. EBF, EPing, Supplementing?: EBF
  
  5. Any questions this week?: 
  Not yet!
  
  GTKY:  Whats your best mommy tip that made life easier? 
  @TheDairyQueenx3‌ I love that idea! I will be stealing that one ASAP .
  When DS1 was a baby we gave him his tri-vi-sol drops straight from the dropper during his bath. He wouldn't drink it in his milk and that was the least messy way to do it.

  

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• carrotcake06 member

  March 2014

  1. 9 months old next week (what??!!)
  
  2. Short term: 1yr / Long term: self-wean
  
  3. Accomplishments: Save for their first 10 days in the NICU while my supply was ramping up, they haven't had any formula. And I've been back to work since they were 3.5 months. Struggles: life w 3u4 with 2 FT working parents is just plain exhausting.
  
  4. EBF.
  
  5. No questions, really. I'm in no way ready to be done BFing, but I am looking forward to wind-down process where I don't have to pump 3x at work and get up 2x a night to nurse.
  
  6. GTKY Mommy tip: keep a spare diaper bag with the essentials in the car. It has saved me more times than I care to mention!

  
  
  
  

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• LittleLady77 member

  March 2014

  No updates from me, still waiting on these babies. I'll be induced in a 1.5 weeks so I'm hoping they come before that! My left boob hurts, hopefully that's a good sign. I'm loving all the tips!

  
  

  
  

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• TheDairyQueenx3 member

  March 2014

  @LittleLady77‌ you are so close to the end!! Enjoy your last week of pregnancy! Can't wait for you to join this thread with outside babies

  
  

  
  

  Together 6 wonderful years.

  TTC #1 18 months 1 loss DX unexplained IF-- BFP July 2009-- ITS A BOY

  TTC #2 3 years and 3 losses DX PCOS -- BFP April 2013-- TWIN BOYS!

  ~DS1-Feb 2010~ 

  ~DS2&3- Nov 2013  {7 weeks early}~ TTC #4~

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• LittleLady77 member

  March 2014

  Thanks @TheDairyQueenx3‌ I can't wait either!

  
  

  
  

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• Missi576 member

  March 2014

  1. How old are your LOs:  34 weeks and 5 days gestation or 2 months and 3 days old. 

  
  

  2. Short term/ Long term goals:   Short term:  Keep increasing my milk supply slowly as I am barely keeping up with their feeds.  ><  Continue to latch one of them on every evening (two if the one my husband hold that night is awake at the end of our time) so they are ready when we start bottle / breast feeding.  Long term:  A year  I made it to 9 months with my older daughters. 

  
  

  3. Accomplishments / Struggles:  Simulated a growth spurt over the last two days and went up maybe 1/2 an ounce!  It's something   Struggles:  bleeding capillaries at times, milk supply

  
  

  4. EBF, EPing, Supplementing?:   Eping for the moment.. well, with the fortification in the milk for NICU babies.

  
  

  5. Any questions this week?:   Nope.

  
  

  GTKY:  Whats your best mommy tip that made life easier?    .. no twin tips yet!  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  

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• BeesKnees181 member

  March 2014

  I plan to be back on here when my twin girls get here.  I am at 29 weeks now.  Any suggestions on books to read?  I was looking at Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding on amazon.  Worth the purchase?  I am also signed up for a class at the hospital. 

   

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• LittleLady77 member

  March 2014

  @BeesKnees181‌ this is the book recommended by my BF class. It's really good. https://www.amazon.com/Nursing-Mothers-Companion-6th/dp/1558327207

  
  

  
  

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• BeesKnees181 member

  March 2014

  LittleLady77 said:

  @BeesKnees181‌ this is the book recommended by my BF class. It's really good. https://www.amazon.com/Nursing-Mothers-Companion-6th/dp/1558327207

  
  Thank you!

   

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• JodiAriel member

  March 2014

  1. How old are your LOs: 16 mos
  

  
  

  2. Short term/ Long term goals: no goals at this point, eventually they will self wean
  

  
  

  3. Accomplishments / Struggles: We cut down to morning/night nursing recently (unless someone is sick or gets hurt) and it has changed my life
  

  
  

  4. EBF, EPing, Supplementing?: EBF, my girls wont even drink milk of any other variety
  

  
  

  5. Any questions this week?: nope

  
  

  GTKY:  Whats your best mommy tip that made life easier? go out everyday. 
  

  
  

  

  
  

  We welcomed our girls on 11.7.12 @ 40w0d!
  Emerson Lily 6 lbs 13 oz & Ellis Willow 6 lbs 9 oz
  
  
  

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• ntdane member

  March 2014

  A little update on my post. I was right and DS does have a tongue-tie. Poor guy only took in 0.7 oz for a feeding at the LC office! No wonder he wants to eat all the time. Instead of putting milk aside for a stash I gave him bottles of pumped milk after nursing last night. He went from sleeping only 1-2 hours to 3-4 hours! Yay for sleep! Now maybe he'll start catching up to his sister who's more than a pound heavier (they started out 2 oz apart).

  

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• SV917 member

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  1. How old are your LOs:
  5 months
  
  2. Short term/ Long term goals:
  6 months/1 year
  
  3. Accomplishments / Struggles:
  Accomplishments - H doesn't need the nipple shield anymore!! This is huge. After 4 1/2 months, he can finally latch on. We've gone a week and a half without it now. He's been having weight gain issues but last week he gained 8 oz.
  
  Struggles - Apparently I was able to pump so much because H wasn't very good at getting the milk with the nipple shield. I've had 2 weeks now were I've gone into my freezer stash. I need to increase my supple just a little so I don't have to deplete my entire stash.
  
  4. EBF, EPing, Supplementing?:
  H - EBF
  E - EP
  
  5. Any questions this week?:
  Now that H is off the nipple shield, I'm thinking about trying to breastfeed E again. She's done it a few times, some successful and other times not so much. Has anyone had an EP'er successfully breastfeed?
  
  GTKY: Whats your best mommy tip that made life easier? Everyday is a struggle. I don't think anyone wants advice from me!
  
  Edit: formatting

  

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