Extended BFing Weekly Check-in- 12/30

vvvvvfee · December 2014

For the purposes of this check-in, we will define extended breastfeeding as breastfeeding beyond 1 year. Please feel free to suggest questions for future check-ins!

1. How old is your LO?
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse?
3. What is your LO's name for nursing?
4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO?

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms?

Non-breastfeeding question of the week:
Do you have New Year's Eve plans?

vvvvvfee · December 2014

1. How old is your LO? 28 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 2
3. What is your LO's name for nursing? "Boobies"
4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO? No, we never had any issues with allergies.

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms? Doing okay- still at 2x a day. DS has stopped asking for the after-work session that we dropped. Aversion is improving, but I still can't deal with twiddling, and sometimes DS is really persistent about it.

Non-breastfeeding question of the week:
Do you have New Year's Eve plans? No-- I will probably be in bed by 8:30 like I am most nights lately. I highly doubt I would be able to stay up until midnight.

lauranicole91 · December 2014

1. How old is your LO? She will be 3 in March.

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? Just depends on the day and how busy we are. Sometimes only once sometimes 10 times a day.

3. What is your LO's name for nursing? "Mmm-ahs"

4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO? No. I give major props to all the mspi and other allergy moms!

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms? Im 18w and my supply is pretty nonexistent now. I can barely squeeze anything out. But it doesn't hurt so we will continue.

Non-breastfeeding question of the week:
Do you have New Year's Eve plans? Just going to get together with my parents and a couple close friends to play some board games and set off a few fireworks. Nothing huge.

Caz1221 · December 2014

1. How old is your LO? 16 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 2x (wake-up and bedtime)
3. What is your LO's name for nursing? She is just starting to say real words and doesn't have a word for nursing yet. I'm interested to see if she comes up with one.
4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO? No, we haven't encountered any allergies.

Non-breastfeeding question of the week:
Do you have New Year's Eve plans? Only if "plans" include relaxing on the couch with DH after work and probably going to bed by 10 pm! We've never been big NYE people, so it's kind of nice to have LO as an excuse not to go out.

mshukh · December 2014

1. How old is your LO?

18.5 months

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse?

Had been just once but we are back to 2-4 since he had a bad case of flu and with me staying home a lot last couple of weeks.

3. What is your LO's name for nursing?

Nam-nam...I think...it's hard to tell what he says exaclty.

4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO?

No. My parents and in-laws kept telling me I'm poisoning this child by drinking milk, eating chocolate, drinking coffee, eating pickles, onions, garlic...and I'm sure a number of other things. Drove me mad.

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms? Not applicable

Non-breastfeeding question of the week:
Do you have New Year's Eve plans?

New Year is the biggest holiday of the year where I come from. To give you an idea it's like Halloween, X-Mas, New Year, Oscars and VMAs rolled into one. We put our New Year trees up when everyone takes their X-Mas trees down, so that's always tough to handle. Tradition is to get together for loads of food, drinks, New Year movies and shows / concerts made specifically for this event around 9-10 pm and stay up partying till the morning light. Obviously having a baby who wakes up between 6-7 am no matter what ruins those plans. So we'll just have a family dinner and watch the programming mentioned above until maybe 12:30ish or 1 and then go to bed to wake up to open presents under the tree on the 1st.

pmduggan01 · December 2014

1. How old is your LO? Almost 27 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? At least 5 times. I thought he was self-weaning a few weeks ago, but now he's nursing like he did in the past.
3. What is your LO's name for nursing? Milk, which sounds like "mouck" when he says it.
4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO? Eggs and shrimp currently. I had to give up dairy in the past, plus a few others.

Non-breastfeeding question of the week:
Do you have New Year's Eve plans? After a crazy time traveling for Christmas, we're looking forward to a quiet night at home for NYE.

crash916 · December 2014

vvvvvfee said:
For the purposes of this check-in, we will define extended breastfeeding as breastfeeding beyond 1 year. Please feel free to suggest questions for future check-ins!

1. How old is your LO?17 months+

3. What is your LO's name for nursing? Nanas. She will sometimes just sign milk or reach for them too.

4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO? Initially told she was MSPI so I gave up soy and dairy for a month. It made no difference though. She was just colicky.

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? I am having some nipple soreness, mainly due to more sessions and her canines coming in on the top. I wish I knew what my supply was like. Is anyone else fielding lots questions about how they will breastfeed?
Questions for other moms?

Non-breastfeeding question of the week:
Do you have New Year's Eve plans? No plans for NYE just a quiet night at home and hopefully early bedtime.

BoyOhBoys · December 2014

1. How old is your LO? 13 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? Once during the day and every two hours at night - 7am

3. What is your LO's name for nursing? Boob or Boo
4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO? Nope

Non-breastfeeding question of the week:
Do you have New Year's Eve plans? I would love to say "sleep" but littlest boy decided he doesn't want to go to bed until 9:30 - 10 the past few nights...

ejb23 · January 2015

1. How old is your LO?
15+mo

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse?
Usually 3-4 (plus motn if needed) during week and 5-7 on weekend.

3. What is your LO's name for nursing?
Milk - sounds like muilk

4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO? No, thank goodness!

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion?
Not preg but planning on TTC in about 3-4 months.

Questions for other moms?
Any issues with getting pregnant while BFing for anyone? We got pregnant quickly the first two times but a little worried BFing may impact that and/or anyone have an OB not supportive of continued BFing while pregnant ?

Do you have New Year's Eve plans?
My sister babysat so we could go to dinner. We were home by 9 and in bed by 10. Of course dd wanted in on the countdown so she woke to nurse at 1159am so she was my Nye kiss.

ChantyPants477 · January 2015

I've been following this board since before my nugget was born but never had anything extra to contribute or ask. But here I am now!

1. How old is your LO? 13 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? Twice- wake up and before bath time at night
3. What is your LO's name for nursing? He just reaches up and tugs my shirt collar

ChantyPants477 · January 2015

Don't know why it keeps deleting the rest of my post!

3. I've been using the sign for milk for months but no progress there.
4. Thankfully no issues with allergies or sensitives

And no special plans last night. I read in my jammies while my H watched football. I did drink some wine though

Cass005 · January 2015

1. How old is your LO? 6 days

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? Every 3_4 hours

3. What is your LO's name for nursing?

4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO? Nah

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms?

Starting to get frustrated since.my milk hasn't come in. We're on the 15-15-15 plan where I nurse for 15 mins pump for 15 minutes and she gets 15MLK of formula (now a bit.more). Doctor said yesterday to feed formula to her whenever she wants it and I should nurse her and every 3 hours. I feel like it's Lot of work and honestly going straight to formula feeds is rather appealing. But I'm trying to hold.in there since its still early.

Cass005 · January 2015

@casey78 : thanks for the heads up and thank thInk you for the advice I very much appreciate it

. I am not quite ready to give up so I'll definitely give it a shot. I also plan to schedule a visit with a LC.

MamaMD · January 2015

1. How old is your LO? 19 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 2 (morning and bedtime)
3. What is your LO's name for nursing? Boo-boo
4. Have you had to give up any foods due to allergies in your LO? Nope.

Non-breastfeeding question of the week:
Do you have New Year's Eve plans? Ha. I'm a little late to the check-in. However, we didn't go out. DH and I watched a movie then watched the ball drop in NYC (which was 10pm where we live). We were in bed soon after that. Haven't made it to midnight in several years!

@Cass005 Hang in there! The beginning is SO hard. I too had supply issues at first - jaundiced/sleepy baby led to difficulty establishing an adequate supply and the need to pump and supplement early on. But here we are at 19 months! Good luck!

SidraJedi · January 2015

1. DD is 21.5 months
2. She nurses on demand (if it's excessive I try to dissuade her) so it can be anywhere over 4 times during the day and at least 2 at night. It's usually more.
3. She's asks for Bee-bee or Bee Bah-tee when she wants to nurse. Bee-bee/Bee = Breast and Bah-tee = Milk.
4. Not really. I had to give up coffee bc it was throwing off her nap schedule.

5. Nursing while pregnant is going alright. My nips are still extra sensitive but no pregnancy related aversions. I can usually get her to stop twiddling/asking to twiddle by telling her she has a choice: no twiddling or no Beebee.

6. We went out for sushi but mostly bc neither DH not I wanted to cook. Then we came home and crashed by 10pm.

vvvvvfee · January 2015

@ejb23
i did not have any trouble getting pregnant while BFing. we got pregnant the first cycle trying with DS and again with this baby. DS was 26 months and nursing 3x a day when we conceived. i'd gotten my period back when he was 12 months old. my cycles had been long, but relatively regular.

my OB said he thought i should work on weaning DS when i mentioned it at my first pregnancy appointment, but he hasn't mentioned it again. i think he was coming from the perspective of it being an added strain on my body, b/c i felt like death at that first appointment. he's very patient-centered, though, so i don't think he's really going to push it.

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