Is anyone nursing their newborn and older child? As the time gets closer I am getting more and more nervous. DS has already been wanting to nurse more this past month, as it seems I have more supply. One of my midwives told me about someone's 5yo who got fat after the baby was born. She put on so much weight that they had to buy her all new clothes. Obviously I'll have to limit DS, but I also don't want him to feel ignored or get jealous of the new baby.
Just wondering if anyone could share their experience!
Re: Tandem nursing
Hoping that he'll cut back a little
Maybe we can have a check in for tandem nursers (are there any others?) and it can totally include moms of multiples. I imagine that's a whole other type of tiring, haha.
We have had a few melt downs when the toddler wanted to nurse and I didn't let her. I have to tell her that the baby ONLY drinks milk and needs my milk to get strong and big like her big sister. I usually offer her a cup of cow's milk and she will sometimes take it. If my husband and I keep the toddler distracted and busy throughout the day the "milkie" melt downs don't happen. So far she hasn't been negative/hurtful towards the baby when I'm nursing.
I was super engorged after the delivery (my milk came in in less than 24 hours) and had to pump in the middle of the night to relieve some of the pressure. My boobs were so big that the baby couldn't latch on correctly. I am now 9 days PP and my supply has evened out. I haven't had to pump in a few days.
I tandem nursed my first two. My toddler was 26 months and only nursing once a day. The only issue we had was with the force of my letdown. It was too much for the newborn. I had to do a lot of reclined nursing and she couldn't comfort nurse.
I am a little nervous about engorgement, haha. I never got engorged the first time, the only way I knew my milk had come in was because DS's poops changed. I did have a pretty forceful letdown too, he would sometimes choke because of it.
I never took a refresher class on breastfeeding, so I'm also a little nervous about how it will go with a newborn again. Hoping I remember how to do it!
DD is in daycare during the week so we nurse at bedtime and sometimes early mornings. We'll see how this weekend goes with her home all day. Tandem nursing seems to be the best thing right now for her jealousy/feeling of being replaced.