7/4 Mommy Milk Monday (late)

[lilyelayne]

The holiday threw off my posting schedule!

How old is your LO?

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

Solids?

What benefit of nursing is most important/relevant to you right now?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's something you've done for yourself lately?

[agm04]

How old is your LO? 16 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? nurses morning and night (+ at most nap wake ups if I'm home). We're out of frozen milk, so it's 2 cups of cow milk during the day now.

Solids? 3 meals, 2 snacks. Yesterday at the grocery store, we were waiting for the butcher, and she was like, "Stick?!" (steak), then opened her mouth and made the Homer Simpson food noise. She loves food!

What benefit of nursing is most important/relevant to you right now? Immune support. We had a crazy weekend of travel (airplane, rented car, hotel rooms, oh my!), her nap schedule was off, who knows what germs she touched where...so of course she's sick today. I feel so guilty for not having more frozen milk when she's sick.

Questions/AW? Any tips for a sick baby? She's congested and has a VERY runny nose. We have the humidifier set up, and I use the nose frida as often as she'll let me. Not sure what else to do for her. Poor thing.

GTKY: what's something you've done for yourself lately? Napped during DD's nap instead of going to the gym when I'm feeling particularly run down. Going to NYC (really it's for work, but it's still time away and I could have skipped it) in a couple of weeks.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? Almost 17 months

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

Solids? He eats best when not distracted but sometimes he eats like a bird and sometimes he eats more than DH or I. I am trying to get him to eat more at dinner time because it affects his sleep so much.

What benefit of nursing is most important/relevant to you right now? Right now the only thing is that he still wants that comfort. I'm pretty done nursing but can tell he is very much still enjoying the tones he does nurse. Which make weaning hard but no way doing want to nurse two at a time!

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's something you've done for yourself lately? I bought myself ice cream the other day! Probably not the best but I love ice cream.

[lilyelayne]

DS is 16 months today!

He was back to 4x a day and 2x MOTN but yesterday and today he's asked to nurse a lot during the day so who knows.

Solids- I am so tired of him flinging his food on the floor. At breakfast and lunch when it's just the two of us, he throws very little, but in the evening or on weekends when DH is there it's much worse. We just take his plate away and ignore him, ask if he's hungry and give him just a few bites on his high chair tray if he asks to eat.

Most important/relevant benefit- it's a toss up between snuggles and hydration. He loves water in a cup but sometimes when he's playing outside he gets too distracted to drink, but he'll come and nurse when he starts to get too hot.

GTKY: I'm not really sure the answer to this one. I bought a couple new dresses online last month, and these days clothes shopping feels like a huge splurge, so maybe that?

agm04 when DS is really stuffy I elevate one end of his crib mattress by putting towels underneath it. He doesn't stay there but it helps him fall asleep. Is LO still sleeping on a pallet on the floor? Or has she moved somewhere you could elevate her head? Other than that just lots and lots and lots of saline spray all throughout the day, only nose Frida when I needed his nose clear to eat or sleep, amd hanging out in the steamy bathroom when he was really struggling. Sometimes I put a little eucalyptus / spearmint massage oil on my chest just before he nurses or if we're doing skin to skin; I think it helps open my nasal passages. Be careful if you're using essential oils though since they're soooooo concentrated.

[dmorgendorffer]

How old is your LO? 16.5 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? I'm trying to stick to just morning and bedtime but if we are together she asks throughout the day. I've started turning her down and giving her milk in a cup instead but she gets mad. She does fine drinking wcm from the cup when I'm not there though. Its 50/50 on days when she's in daycare if she'll ask to nurse when I get home from work or make it to bedtime.

Solids? Picky eater. She eats better at daycare - they said sometimes seeing the other kids eating something will help them decide to try it. Even when I offer things I know she eats at daycare she won't eat them at home.

What benefit of nursing is most important/relevant to you right now? The comfort and nursing induced sleep was nice on the airplane, although she absolutely hates being under the nursing cover now. kartish I'm feeling like you, I'm over it but she gets so excited and happy to nurse that I don't want to take that away from her just yet.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's something you've done for yourself lately? Yesterday when we got home I sat on the couch and watched TV while DD napped even though DH was cleaning. I had a little bit of guilt for not helping him but I felt like after 5 days with his family I needed a little time to myself to enjoy before the long weekend was over.

[agm04]

lilyelayne thank you! good ideas. she's sleeping in her crib now (hooray!), so if she's still stuffy today i'll try that. we did that for reflux for months and it helped. DD napped for FIVE HOURS yesterday and is still asleep (so 12+ hours of night sleep)...hopefully all this sleep will fix her up! Also, i feel for you on the food throwing...I have to remind myself not to react when DD does it, bc it's extremely annoying.

dmorgendorffer 5 days with his family definitely earns you some couch time in my book!

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 16 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? At least 3X a day

Solids? Everything. DS wants to feed himself all the time and it's so messy. Only annoying when we're eating out.

What benefit of nursing is most important/relevant to you right now? Cuddles and sleepy time at night

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's something you've done for yourself lately? I got my hair cut and a massage.


agm04 Saline drops or spray and elevate the crib head for congestion