We take baby steps but lo is finally taking normal nipples with her bottle instead of these disposable ones we have been having to use. She is super picky about the nipples.
LO is still EBF and I've pretty much eaten whatever this whole time. He's had no problems and shown no sensitivities to any foods. Lately, I've noticed mucus in his diapers. He had an ear infection so I thought maybe that was the cause, but it's still happening. The only other thing I can think of is swallowing all of his drool. Anyone else noticing this? His pedi didn't seem concerned.
@virginiaunicorn11 when LO has a mucousy diaper, it's stringy. Like if I closed the diaper and opened it there would be mucous strings like a spider web.
@amccoy129 how often is this happening? I mentioned mucous poops to my pedi and they said not to worry about it. Then again my pedi is very anti intervention unless a child's arm is falling off so don't let my experience hold much weight. LO has a mucous poop about once a week.
TTC: 1/2014
BFP: 9/24
EDD: 6/8/2015
Sorry for the poor man's siggy...ticker won't load regardless of how many tips I read.
@amccoy129 I remember reading somewhere that the excess drool can be a cause of mucous in the stool. My LO had it a couple of poops in a row awhile back, but it stopped just as mysteriously as it started
I will spare everyone a picture of my kid's poop! Haha. He'll go a few days with normal diapers and then a few mucous ones. I've mentioned it to our pedi several times (we've been a few times this month) and she just says if there is blood in the stool call. Ha. Okay then....
Yes. If it's not every time and sometimes blood present then don't worry too much. My babe had this awhile back and posted a gross pic but it didn't return.
@amccoy129 there is a poop guide I found on babycenter it says the following about mucous. If anyone wants to look at pictures lol I'll post the link..
LO has been barfing on and off for a week. He's pounding bottles like a champ in between barfs though! They started him on zofran today so hopefully that will help.... After he gets past this bug, we will dive into food. He's having 35-40 ounces of formula a day. Little man is a beef cake.
Somewhat related to feeding LO, I was going through my baby book and found a page on how I was fed. Check this out: -breast fed to 2 mo, then fed Similac -cereal in a bottle started at 2 months -peaches added to bottle 2 weeks later -water out of a sippy cup at 2.5 months -blueberries and peas at 3.5 months, cereal was spoon fed, not sleeping through the night (ha ha ha ha ha ha) -liquid aspirin given after 4 months shots -at 5.5 months, switched from formula to 2% milk, given malt o meal and cream of wheat -drinking out of a cup at 10 months, likes scrambled eggs, toast and gravy
The peaches thing sounds awesome. My mom was telling me how she was always told to put me on my belly to sleep. According to today's APA guidelines you'd think we'd all be dead by now.
@Sammy K Love it. And yet here I am feeling like I need to wait exactly 6 months, preserve his virgin gut, stick with only baby led weaning etc. My logical side is slapping my stubborn across the face.
Just imagine how amazing you'd be if you hadn't been ruined by food at 2 months and cows milk. Ha ha ha.
My mom reminds me constantly that none of her kids slept through the night until after a year old. I actually like hearing this, take the pressure off because I've lost all hope.
My mom was hospitalized with pneumonia when I was nine months. I was nursing every 3 hours day and night and had never had a bottle. My dad says he put a bottle of formula on the high chair tray and I picked it up.and drank it. Weaned.
Somewhat related to feeding LO, I was going through my baby book and found a page on how I was fed. Check this out: -breast fed to 2 mo, then fed Similac -cereal in a bottle started at 2 months -peaches added to bottle 2 weeks later -water out of a sippy cup at 2.5 months -blueberries and peas at 3.5 months, cereal was spoon fed, not sleeping through the night (ha ha ha ha ha ha) -liquid aspirin given after 4 months shots -at 5.5 months, switched from formula to 2% milk, given malt o meal and cream of wheat -drinking out of a cup at 10 months, likes scrambled eggs, toast and gravy
Supply tanking due to not being able to pump at work as much due to short staff, crazy floor. So close to 6 months. We can do it...we can do it...and then hello formula.
TTC: 1/2014
BFP: 9/24
EDD: 6/8/2015
Sorry for the poor man's siggy...ticker won't load regardless of how many tips I read.
@caitlincunn mine does the same thing!!! Freakin' jaws of steel on my nipple.
I'm going to try to make it to 6 months BF too and then introduce formula. I really need migraine meds and I'd rather not be BFing while I take them. 4 more weeks. I'll be satisfied with making it to 6 months I think.
LO is kind of self weaning off the boob. He's majority formula now anyway, but he always seemed to enjoy time spent breastfeeding. Now he seems almost too impatient to want to pay attention to breastfeeding. If he is crying, sometimes he won't even bother trying the boob. If he is really wound up, he just plain won't. When we does decide he will spend some time with the boob, he is easily distracted and sometimes will just stop after just a few minutes (like 2 or 3) without really accomplishing anything. Its like he knows he is getting a bottle afterwards, so why bother with all this other work? I've increased the amount of his formula because every day he seems to take less and less from the breast. Out of five feedings in the day, he may take the boob for two of them. Which of course messes with my supply... Its a downward trend.
I'm torn between relief that soon probably I won't have to worry about what I can take for my headaches and sadness that this time is so obviously almost over.
As a bonus tho, it's now getting much easier to know how much food he is taking. That should make our struggle to help him gain weight easier.
@mellymar I think they start to be very distracted right about now. My guy is nursing plus one bottle a day and he pops on and off the boob and the bottle. I've tried pumping after and get an ounce quickly so he could have more. Whatever is best for you guys but wanted to share. It IS pretty annoying
^^^^Mine too. I used to be able to nurse him anywhere but now have to be in a quiet place or he's way too distracted. I nursed him at the mall last week with a cover and it was a disaster. I thought he was going to rip my nipple off. My pedi also told me he wound get way more efficient and nurse for 5 or 10 minutes and be done.
LO is really quick and efficient but its not even worth trying to nurse him outside of the house. I also notice he's much less into his pacifier. The sucking something all the time need as passed so I can see why Melly's babe might be losing interest. Its definitely only about food now for us.
LO is really quick and efficient but its not even worth trying to nurse him outside of the house. I also notice he's much less into his pacifier. The sucking something all the time need as passed so I can see why Melly's babe might be losing interest. Its definitely only about food now for us.
Yes! Half the time he's trying to chew his paci. He'll even pull it out and try to gnaw on the side of the paci or on the paci leash
Yeah, my kid has always only nursed one side for 5-10 minutes, but now sometimes it's even less than that. He will nurse a couple minutes to satiate, then get right back into whatever else is going on. If I take him to a quiet room, after spending a few minutes checking out the room, he nurses way longer than usual, trying to catch up on food.
I feel like it's affecting my supply in my right boob, which was always the lower producer. Also, he sometimes screams and won't nurse on the right, then suckles like a little pig when I give up and offer the left.
I think LO is or will be going through a growth spurt. My supply has suddenly jumped up. It's that or the recent addition of gluten back into my diet. I usually get 6-7 ounces from the first pump at work and I just got 6 ounces from one side! I better have a hungry baby when I get home!
My boobs are so weird now. Suddenly, the side that always had super high production has gone way down, while the other side has gone up slightly, so now they're about even. I'm about breaking even every day on milk, sometimes getting 3-4oz surplus. The biggest issue is that i used to have forceful letdown, which has stopped...great for LO when we nurse, but terrible for pumping. It took me like 20 minutes this morning to empty the left side, even though it hadn't been touched in 7 hours. And i'm not even certain i emptied it, i just gave up because it was taking forever. I wind up ending my work pumps before i'm actually empty because i just don't have the time. I've been suspecting a Return of the Menstrual Cycle recently, and i'm wondering if that's right around the corner now...I've been told by various friends that they experienced a bit of a slow down on production during ovulation/their periods, but it then came back up afterwards. I usually average about 6-7 ounces at each of my 3 daily work pumps, and today i got 5 and then 4.5 for the first two, despite making them 3-5 minutes longer than usual. Ugh.
I'm sure it's fine and i'm just freaking out for no reason...but we won't even be to 5 months until this weekend, and i was really hoping to keep running a surplus until 6 months so that i could then cut down my work pumps from 3 times a day to 2 and start tapping into my reserves. Now i'm not sure if i can do that. Or if i do, i might have to keep pumping for the full 12 months (when i was hoping to have enough in reserve by 10-11 months to stop pumping all together). Booooooo. I'm also nervous about the alleged production slow down at 6 months i've been reading about. I don't know what i'm going to do if that happens. As muich as i want to BF for 12 months, i don't think i want to do that enough to start waking up MOTN again while LO sleeps just to get in an extra few ounces. Hopefully this will resolve itself soon.
@hudson202 Dairy, beans, and cruciferous vegetables seem to be the last hold outs. And I can eat beans or veggies in small quantities, just not a 1/2 cup serving at once.
@delujm0 I have noticed my production varies and both sides never produce the same. If I notice a drop, it usually means I'm dehydrated. I still don't have my period and I'm hoping it doesn't return until I'm done BF. That is a small trade off for feeling like a dairy cow for a year.
@hudson202 Dairy, beans, and cruciferous vegetables seem to be the last hold outs. And I can eat beans or veggies in small quantities, just not a 1/2 cup serving at once.
In my world, a 1/2 cup serving at once IS a small quantity. Yikes.
Guys, I want to start LO on solids soon - where do I start to find good info on this? I know my doc is obviously one resource, but anything else you have found helpful about what types of foods to start with, etc.?
LO has become very distractible while nursing. Suddenly breastmilk isn't his favorite thing anymore, it's playing and looking around. When I use the nipple shield, I have to hold it on the whole time or else he will grab it, roll back to his back (we nurse side-lying) and cram it in his mouth like a little snack, smacking his lips like it's delicious. I'm torn between being annoyed and thinking it's adorable. I let him suck on it for a minute then take it away so he won't choke on it.
I asked my mom when we got our first solid foods and she said she started me on rice cereal at 6 weeks hoping it would help with colic...sigh. On the bright side she said she breastfed till 11 months.
Re: Feeding lo - November
@amccoy129 how often is this happening? I mentioned mucous poops to my pedi and they said not to worry about it. Then again my pedi is very anti intervention unless a child's arm is falling off so don't let my experience hold much weight. LO has a mucous poop about once a week.
https://www.babycenter.ca/baby-poo-photos
Check this out:
-breast fed to 2 mo, then fed Similac
-cereal in a bottle started at 2 months
-peaches added to bottle 2 weeks later
-water out of a sippy cup at 2.5 months
-blueberries and peas at 3.5 months, cereal was spoon fed, not sleeping through the night (ha ha ha ha ha ha)
-liquid aspirin given after 4 months shots
-at 5.5 months, switched from formula to 2% milk, given malt o meal and cream of wheat
-drinking out of a cup at 10 months, likes scrambled eggs, toast and gravy
Pretty funny stuff!
Just imagine how amazing you'd be if you hadn't been ruined by food at 2 months and cows milk. Ha ha ha.
My mom reminds me constantly that none of her kids slept through the night until after a year old. I actually like hearing this, take the pressure off because I've lost all hope.
My mom was hospitalized with pneumonia when I was nine months. I was nursing every 3 hours day and night and had never had a bottle. My dad says he put a bottle of formula on the high chair tray and I picked it up.and drank it. Weaned.
Thanks for all your replies. I think it was the ear infection/antibiotics. Poops are looking way more normal now!
I'm going to try to make it to 6 months BF too and then introduce formula. I really need migraine meds and I'd rather not be BFing while I take them. 4 more weeks. I'll be satisfied with making it to 6 months I think.
I've increased the amount of his formula because every day he seems to take less and less from the breast. Out of five feedings in the day, he may take the boob for two of them. Which of course messes with my supply... Its a downward trend.
I'm torn between relief that soon probably I won't have to worry about what I can take for my headaches and sadness that this time is so obviously almost over.
As a bonus tho, it's now getting much easier to know how much food he is taking. That should make our struggle to help him gain weight easier.
(Shrugs) It is what it is
I feel like it's affecting my supply in my right boob, which was always the lower producer. Also, he sometimes screams and won't nurse on the right, then suckles like a little pig when I give up and offer the left.
Babies, man.
My boobs are so weird now. Suddenly, the side that always had super high production has gone way down, while the other side has gone up slightly, so now they're about even. I'm about breaking even every day on milk, sometimes getting 3-4oz surplus. The biggest issue is that i used to have forceful letdown, which has stopped...great for LO when we nurse, but terrible for pumping. It took me like 20 minutes this morning to empty the left side, even though it hadn't been touched in 7 hours. And i'm not even certain i emptied it, i just gave up because it was taking forever. I wind up ending my work pumps before i'm actually empty because i just don't have the time. I've been suspecting a Return of the Menstrual Cycle recently, and i'm wondering if that's right around the corner now...I've been told by various friends that they experienced a bit of a slow down on production during ovulation/their periods, but it then came back up afterwards. I usually average about 6-7 ounces at each of my 3 daily work pumps, and today i got 5 and then 4.5 for the first two, despite making them 3-5 minutes longer than usual. Ugh.
I'm sure it's fine and i'm just freaking out for no reason...but we won't even be to 5 months until this weekend, and i was really hoping to keep running a surplus until 6 months so that i could then cut down my work pumps from 3 times a day to 2 and start tapping into my reserves. Now i'm not sure if i can do that. Or if i do, i might have to keep pumping for the full 12 months (when i was hoping to have enough in reserve by 10-11 months to stop pumping all together). Booooooo. I'm also nervous about the alleged production slow down at 6 months i've been reading about. I don't know what i'm going to do if that happens. As muich as i want to BF for 12 months, i don't think i want to do that enough to start waking up MOTN again while LO sleeps just to get in an extra few ounces. Hopefully this will resolve itself soon.
@delujm0 I have noticed my production varies and both sides never produce the same. If I notice a drop, it usually means I'm dehydrated. I still don't have my period and I'm hoping it doesn't return until I'm done BF. That is a small trade off for feeling like a dairy cow for a year.
But the babies are growth spurting and eating LOTS, and I'm not keeping up. I either break even or am short by a few ounces.
I'm producing 10 oz per day less than I was at the beginning of October. I'm trying hard to boost the supply again, but no luck so far!
I asked my mom when we got our first solid foods and she said she started me on rice cereal at 6 weeks hoping it would help with colic...sigh. On the bright side she said she breastfed till 11 months.