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January 2017 Moms
ThePax89
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Currently Breastfeeding: Check-in
ThePax89
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Any nursing moms interested in doing a weekly/twice monthly check-in? I'm not sure how many of us there are. Also, I need a snazzier title for this thread...suggestions?
1. How old is your nursling?
2. How is pregnancy affecting your nursing relationship?
3. Future plans to wean/tandem nurse?
4. GTKY: how are you getting your older baby/toddler ready to be a big sister/brother?
1. How old is your nursling?
2. How is pregnancy affecting your nursing relationship?
3. Future plans to wean/tandem nurse?
4. GTKY: how are you getting your older baby/toddler ready to be a big sister/brother?
Re: Currently Breastfeeding: Check-in
2. It is making nursing pretty terrible. Every time I nurse, it feels like she's biting me, but she isn't.
3. I originally wanted to tandem nurse/nurse until she weaned herself. Breastfeeding has become something different now. She doesn't nurse for comfort, it is just to go to sleep. About half of the time she prefers a paci anyway. I think our nursing time may be up sooner than I originally I thought.
4. She kisses my belly and likes to listen to the baby's heartbeat (video). We are buying some big sister books.
1. How old is your nursling? 17 months
2. How is pregnancy affecting your nursing relationship? Not affecting it so far as I am only 5 weeks
3. Future plans to wean/tandem nurse? I would love to wean her, but we are having medical issues with her being allergic to almost everything and can't really have any other kind of milk...we are trying rice and coconut milk. So I will nurse her until she doesn't ask for it I guess!
4. GTKY: how are you getting your older baby/toddler ready to be a big sister/brother? We are trying to get her to say baby and pat my tummy, but so far no interest! Just baby and runs off
2. Ugh. It's as painful as it was when I started. I dread nursing again because it hurts.so.much. but she loves it and obviously it's so good for her so I guess we're sticking with it.
3. I'm just going to go with the flow. I'm definitely nursing the new baby, assuming there are no serious barriers to that happening. I'm not sure about DD. As long as she wants to continue with it, I will.
4. Uh, I'm not yet. I'm 5 weeks pregnant and she's 12 months old...she would not get it yet and it would probably only confuse her if she did because it's so far away. As we get closer, I plan to get her a baby doll and read lots of books about siblings to her. We're also working on "gentle touch" (we were doing that already) because she's very enthusiastic about making friends... like, she's made other kids cry because she's so insistent on hugging. Good that she wants to make friends, but she needs to learn about not touching people who don't want to be touched...and not smothering other babies lol.
1. My daughter is 19 months
2. I immediately felt a drop in my supply and DD sometimes pulls off and says "uh oh" and "more" and squeezes my boob. Nips are starting to become really tender.
3. We need to work on night weaning. I just don't have the energy. I'm super nauseous and not able to eat a lot. I've lost 5 lbs so far. Nourishing two babies is hard! I think I'd like to wean her by the time she is 2 in October.
4. She says baby and points to my tummy. We will get her a doll and some books soon. I'm going to start potty training her next month. I think she's ready. Other than that, not much!
@acmergo my daughter just won't drink milk. Refuses. Her pedi thinks she will "wean to water" and is okay with that.
2. How is pregnancy affecting your nursing relationship? It's not really. My son is in a phase where he thinks if he can see me he needs to be nurse and I'm trying to break him of that. I'd really like him to get down to a couple times a day.
3. Future plans to wean/tandem nurse? I'm still going to follow his lead as far as weaning goes. I don't want to tandem nurse, in the sense of both babes at one time, but idk. We'll see what happens.
4. GTKY: how are you getting your older baby/toddler ready to be a big sister/brother? He doesn't understand so not doing much. Working, very slowly, on transitioning him to his own bed and out of mine.
DD2: 9.22.06
DS1: Born too soon, 19w3d 1.28.14
DS2: 3.5.15
ID Twin girls 04/2012
Baby #3 Due Jan. 2017
2.so far i have not seen any contradictions with my pregnancy and breastfeeding.
3. I have been trying to wean her to a cup with milk. But breast is the only way i can calm her and put her to bed.
4. I have a soon to be 6 year old son who loves her 1 year old sister. It was a breeze going from 1 to 2. But they are 5 years apart. Going from 2 to 3 might be harder since 2 and 3 will only be 20 months apart. She is going to too young to truly understand and comprehend that a baby is coming.
2. We only nurse once a day but I can tell something about the milk flavor has changed. She makes weird faces now when drinking.
3. I am letting her self wean. At first I thought tandem nursing would be cool, and now I'm like I want my body back for a little while before I go into full on nursing mode again.
4. I have no idea how we are going to get her ready. She is so freaking attached to me and jealous when other people including H touch me. I'm kind of worries about how she will react.
2. Not effecting us too much. I have stopped nursing in the morning and at nap time and only nurse at night before bed. Hurts a tad but not significant. I really can't imagine I have much milk. He just does it to comfort
3. Since I've been slowly weaning, I need to just cut out night time nursing now. I plan to by end of summer. I really love nursing and enjoy snuggling him before bed. Makes him still feel like my baby not my big boy lol. But I am getting a little tired of it.
4.at 16mo he really doesn't understand the concept that im pregnant. I'll start saying baby and when pointing to my belly but it's hard until I'm really showing. He just knows my belly is where my belly button is lol. I just pray a lot that the Lord prepares him to be a big brother and my husband and I to be parents do two! I'm nervous about that.
1. 19 months (almost)
2. She still nurses 3 times a day, but I can tell I'm starting to dry up. And tonight she didn't fall asleep while nursing before bed, and it took her over an hour to fall asleep with me trying to soothe her while she cried! I don't know how to transition not nursing to sleep!! HELP!
3. I'd like to let her wean on her own, but I'm nervous that she won't before the baby comes. I really don't want to tandem nurse. So as you can tell, I'm really confused and conflicted (and really sad) about this! I don't want to end our nursing relationship yet, but I can tell she's getting frustrated that I'm drying up.
EDD 7/13/2015
Ultra Sound 12/2 @ 8+1 measuring 8+4
I guess I'm just feeling like shit because I thought we had ended the nursing relationship gently and mostly on her terms (the way I wanted), but now I'm not so sure