5/2 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk?

Solids?

Anything you & your nursling are struggling with re: feeding?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what are you looking forward to in May?

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? 14 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? 5oz boob juice morning/night, coconut milk all the time in between

Solids? Was not a fan of ground venison this past week; we'll keep trying!

Anything you & your nursling are struggling with re: feeding?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what are you looking forward to in May? The end of school! 19 more days, although I have to take a couple of days off between now and then for various things, to technically about 16 days...

[agm04]

How old is your LO? 14 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? 4-6x a day (nurses morning and night and sometimes nap, sippy cup with half cow milk/half breastmilk at meals) If I'm not the one putting her to bed (very rare), she has no interest in milk at bed time. She'll swat the bottle away. But she's all about nursing if I'm there, even though it's brief. She asks for milk the whole time she's getting in PJs and reading books. It's cute. "Mek? Mek? Mek?" Then she nurses for like one minute, unlatches, and says, "Nigh nigh?" Guess she's ready for bed!

Solids? So many solids. So much poop. I'm really making an effort to introduce at least a few new foods every week, so she's used to trying new things. It's hard to remember.

Anything you & your nursling are struggling with re: feeding? Not at the moment, thankfully!

Questions/AW? danitaec I see 5 oz morning/night, but how often/how much coconut milk during the day? I wonder if I'm giving DD enough. She gets 4 oz bottles at breakfast and lunch, then the morning/night nursing, and sometimes a 2 oz cow milk cup at dinner or in between. All the pedi said at her last appt is that cow milk should max out at 24 oz a day.

GTKY: what are you looking forward to in May? DH's bday this week, Mother's Day, a girls' weekend trip in 2 weeks. But mostly lots of time with DD. She's so fun these days!

[danitaec]

agm04, I don't track the coconut like I do the boob juice, but I'd say between 12-15 oz?

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - he'll be 14 months on Thursday

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? - nurses 3-4x during the day & 1-2x MOTN.

Solids? - yup yup yup. Favorites right now are anything with rice (he asked for seconds eating jambalaya this week!) and broccoli.

Anything you & your nursling are struggling with re: feeding? - nope

GTKY: what are you looking forward to in May? - vacation!! Cruise next week & beach in 3 weeks.

agm04 our pedi said at least 16oz of milk a day, whether breast or cow, but if he was nursing good then don't worry about it. I offer water in a sippy all day (I try to remember to have it on the floor for him, and we added a cup holder to his car seat) and with meals. Once every week or two I give WCM at breakfast, or DH will give him some if I sleep in on Saturday. DS drinks 2-3oz if he's into it or a few sips if not.

[agm04]

Thanks ladies. Sounds like I may need to offer milk more often, or up the size of her meal time bottles. She'd be happy taking 10 bottles a day and ignoring food (she loves food, but she REALLY loves milk), so I cut back, but I'll re-examine.

Another question today: plugged ducts. I didn't pump at work yesterday out of laziness, and thought it would be fine, since I usually only pump 3ish oz anyway. Well I had a nice lump in my boob last night, even after DD nursed twice. I hand expressed to empty it, but it is SOOOOORE today. The only other plugged duct I had was pretty bad, and I had to get some solids out of there. This one wasn't like that, so should it still be sore? I don't really feel a lump anymore, and it seems like milk is flowing when I hand express, so is it just residual soreness? DNW mastitis. Google likes to give me general symptoms, but no answers here.

[lilyelayne]

agm04 if DS skips a couple feedings sometimes I'll get a harder spot (sometimes not) and nursing takes care of it. I am sometimes sore afterward. With no lump & good milk flow I'm inclined to believe it's gone. Take some ibuprofen and keep an eye on it.

[agm04]

lilyelayne thanks!

[kartish]

How old is your LO? Will be 15 months this week

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? Naps, Bedtime, MOTN still

Solids? Yep, he tried paella last night

Anything you & your nursling are struggling with re: feeding? I am having mixed feelings about weaning from nap nursing. I want to, but our nap routine is pretty nice on the days I'm home with him so I also don't want to screw it up

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what are you looking forward to in May? We have a weekend getaway planned and I'm really looking forward to that.

ETA oh and my friend is getting married this month! Next week actually, so I need to go and find a present and something to wear. ..

[lilyelayne]

kartish have you decided about nap nursing?

[lilyelayne]

I'm going to be out of town & without internet for a week starting Sunday. Do y'all want me to post this check in early Sunday or does someone want to post Monday as usual?

[danitaec]

I vote for Sunday, lilyelayne

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 14 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? 3-5 times a day and 1-2 times at night.

Solids? Started not wanting normal meals and snacks and being picky. He got sick Saturday night which is some of it. We're trying to roll with it.

Anything you & your nursling are struggling with re: feeding? We're on vacation and he's doing a bit of cluster feeding in the morning. Seeing if lactation tea helps tone that down.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what are you looking forward to in May? We're on vacation this week. Nice to spend some extra time with H and DS

[seamonster]

May 5, 2016 7:43:35 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

I'm going to be out of town & without internet for a week starting Sunday. Do y'all want me to post this check in early Sunday or does someone want to post Monday as usual?

Sunday is fine.

[kartish]

May 5, 2016 7:42:42 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

kartish have you decided about nap nursing?

Yes, I think so. He's sick right now so probably will wait until he us feeling better, but I will probably shorten the sessions a little each week until they are gone.