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Extended BFing Weekly Check-in- 1/6
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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. How long do your nursing sessions tend to be?
4. Does your LO drink other milk besides BM? How did you introduce it?
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: How many kids do you have? How many do you want? How many would you have if you lived in fantasy-land, under totally ideal circumstances?
1. How old is your LO?
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse?
3. How long do your nursing sessions tend to be?
4. Does your LO drink other milk besides BM? How did you introduce it?
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: How many kids do you have? How many do you want? How many would you have if you lived in fantasy-land, under totally ideal circumstances?
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Re: Extended BFing Weekly Check-in- 1/6
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 4-6 times
3. How long do your nursing sessions tend to be? Anywhere from 5-30 minutes
4. Does your LO drink other milk besides BM? How did you introduce it?
He just recently started taking soy milk after refusing it for a few weeks. We recently confirmed he has a milk protein intolerance. I would prefer him to drink goats milk but I have offered it many times and still no luck. He does like goats milk yogurt so I an happy he takes a serving of that almost every day and about 8-12 oz of soy milk.
Non-breastfeeding question of the week: How many kids do you have? How many do you want? How many would you have if you lived in fantasy-land, under totally ideal circumstances?
DS is my first. I'd like two or three total, at least one more would be great but we can't think about that for a while, DS needs a lot of attention right now. In an ideal world I would take three or four.
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 2x/day
3. How long do your nursing sessions tend to be? morning is short - usually 10mins; evening can be upwards of 30 mins if she's feeling really cuddly.
4. Does your LO drink other milk besides BM? How did you introduce it? she will now drink some WCM, but it took 6 months for her to be interested. We tried mixing it with BM at a year, but when we got to 50% she refused it and simultaneously dropped bottles cold-turkey. So we didn't try to introduce it, and only started offering it again when she showed interest in a friend's sippy of milk.
Non-breastfeeding question of the week: How many kids do you have? How many do you want? How many would you have if you lived in fantasy-land, under totally ideal circumstances? The plan is 2 kids (have just one now). I'm totally torn between saying 2 is plenty and wanting 3 or 4, but that would be a fantasy-land scenario where no one has to pay for college ;-) (though fraternal twins do run in my family, so I suppose it's possible that 2 could be a surprise 3!)
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 4-6
3. How long do your nursing sessions tend to be? They're usually under 10 minutes. The longest one is usually when we get home from work/daycare. She still (sometimes) nurses in the middle of the night and I don't know how long those last. I do remember she asked at 2 last night and then again at 4 and I told her no. We bedshare, so I know she cried/whimpered for a minute or two (which I felt bad about), but then fell back asleep. I've never told her no in the MOTN and had her accept it.
4. Does your LO drink other milk besides BM? How did you introduce it? A little bit of cow's milk at daycare. It's probably about 8 oz., if that. I've never really pushed it and I think daycare just offers her a cup at lunch.
Non-breastfeeding question of the week: How many kids do you have? How many do you want? How many would you have if you lived in fantasy-land, under totally ideal circumstances? Just 1 child for now. I definitely want at least 2, but I'll wait to make that final decision until after I've had another child. I've always imagined I'd have 2.
edit: spelling error
kellymom has a great page with a list of benefits of BFing past one year:
https://kellymom.com/ages/older-infant/ebf-benefits/
they also have some nice suggestions on responding to criticism about BFing:
https://kellymom.com/bf/concerns/mother/criticism/
i also really enjoyed the book, our babies, ourselves: how biology and culture shape the way we parent-- it shows just how much of what we think are "normal" ways to parent or respond to our children are really just social constructs. and our western social constructs don't always best serve our children's development.
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse?
3. How long do your nursing sessions tend to be?
4. Does your LO drink other milk besides BM? How did you introduce it?
Just offered in a straw cup one day and I'm sure we made different porrige with it prior to that. I never knew it was a big deal to transition.
Non-breastfeeding question of the week: How many kids do you have? How many do you want? How many would you have if you lived in fantasy-land, under totally ideal circumstances?
have you tried having your LO sit on your lap facing you to nurse? that worked well for us for a long time.
now that both DS's sessions are in bed (wake up/bedtime) he just nurses next to me for one side, then kind of flops over my body for the other breast.
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? Once or twice on a busy day out of the house but 8-10 on a normal lazy day around the house.
3. How long do your nursing sessions tend to be? Most are 5 minutes, tops. But the morning and post nap sessions are usually about 30mins.
4. Does your LO drink other milk besides BM? How did you introduce it? She drinks whole milk finally, as of a few months after her 2nd birthday. About 16oz a day. We tried to introduce it at 15m when she was labeled FTT (failure to thrive) but she didn't take to it. She then went to feeding therapy, a GI specialist, and a nutritionalist who all determined she had a oral sensory issue. She was then put on prescription pediasure. I'd have to bribe her to drink the pediasure by telling her she couldn't nurse until she finished "x" amount. It sucked. I'm sure my answer was overkill, sorry.
Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms? No pain since week 6. No aversion. My supply is definitely dwindling. And the color of my milk is changing.
Non-breastfeeding question of the week: How many kids do you have? How many do you want? How many would you have if you lived in fantasy-land, under totally ideal circumstances? We have one daughter now and a son on the way (19.5w pregnant). I want 3, DH wants 5. We will probably stick with 3 unless he gets an awesome high paying job or we win the lottery. Haha.