Pregnant and weaning

Re: Pregnant and weaning

• A&Lmommy member

  April 2017

  First, congratulations on both being pregnant and on nursing for so long. I nursed my 1st until a couple weeks after she turned 2 and I was 6 months pregnant. She is a very strong-willed lil girl who bed shares and does things on her schedule and nursed for quiet time and sleep. It was tough. First your boobs are sore in the 1st trimester and then you start having more Braxton- Hicks because of the nursing in the 2nd tri. My dr never stressed weaning since everyone was healthy but just urged that i had a healthy diet. My supply dropped so I would give her a bottle of coconut milk and then nurse her to 'top her off'. I remember it used to make my skin crawl and make me antsy early on so I would limit the time nursing and then spend extra time cuddling. I also only nursed her in the rocking chair and when she would wake up in the night, I'd ask her if she wanted to sit in the chair or cuddle in bed. During the day, I pushed her beebee (bottle) more while cuddling or distracted as much as possible. She finally started pushing me away when I would try to nurse her and that's how she weaned. I think my milk changed and she didn't like how it tasted. Unfortunately, after she weaned, we started having sleep problems and they weren't so easy to fix without nursing and she did use a bottle as a comfort item until she turned 3 but at least I didn't have to tandem nurse!

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• lfblair768 member

  June 2017

  Hi Bailey.  I see this post is a few months old, but in case you come back to it, I wanted to know how weaning has gone for you.  I'm 24 weeks pregnant and still nursing my almost 22 month old daughter.  My supply has definitely dropped and we nurse three times a day.  At this point my nipples are pretty sore and I'm getting really tired of nursing.  I'd planned to go till she turns two (the new baby will arrive a month later) but I'm going crazy.  To make it more aggravating my daughter twiddles my other nipple while she nurses, so talk about irritating!!  She started doing that at 11 months and I thought it'd be a phase, but I was wrong.  Sometimes a toy in her free hand helps.  Anyway, I appreciate what A&L said.  Maybe I can muster up some more strength/patience with distraction, etc.  In a few weeks my husband and I are doing a 3 night getaway and it will be my first time away from her.  Really interested to see if that affects things.

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• TabulaRasa25 member

  August 2017

  Congrats for nursing as long as you have! 
  
  I got pregnant with my daughter when my son was a year old, and he was still nursing, although by that point, we were mostly at a single bedtime nursing session...he was eating enough table food that he'd dropped all daytime nursing, and we gradually fazed out morning nursing in favor of breakfast. Middle of the Night comfort nursing pretty much only happened during teething time. So we were really just down to the one getting ready for bed nursing session.  I kept it going through my first trimester, and by then, he was just as happy to be held as to be actively nursing at bedtime.  So he more or less self-weaned at 15 months. We did give him a sippy cup option, but he didn't stay interested in that for long.  It's the rest of the ritual, the holding, bedtime story, song, etc. that seems most important, not the feed. 

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