8/1 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

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

Solids?

What's a challenge you overcame in this breastfeeding journey?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in August?

[agm04]

How old is your LO? 17 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? Nursing 1-3x/day, WCM 2-3x/day. She's been asking for milk every time we sit down on the couch together or cuddle, and randomly other times. She's suddenly obsessed. I think it may be from teething - she's working on at least 3 teeth right now.

Solids? 3 meals, 2 snacks, constant snack requests. I had to give up on dinner Friday night bc she was crying after every bite. Made her a calorie dense smoothie instead.

What's a challenge you overcame in this breastfeeding journey? I said this in the extended BF check-in on the BF board, but omg the nipple bruising/scabs in the early weeks. That was so rough.

Questions/AW? Anyone else have a spike in milk requests while teething? It seems normal I guess.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in August? A little break in our demanding schedule! We don't have a lot going on this month, thankfully.

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 17.5 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? Nursing at least twice a day. Giving even at snack time and in his breakfast

Solids? 3 meals and 2 snacks. He's becoming pickier.

What's a challenge you overcame in this breastfeeding journey? Shallow latch and lip and tongue tie.

Questions/AW? Anyone else weaned MOTN? I'm tackling this as a start to fully weaning. I'm offering DS water first and then boobs since I don't think he needs milk, but fluids in general.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in August? H and I are going out for our anniversary at the end of the month

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - he'll make 17mo on Friday.

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? - I think we're back to 3-4x/day and HOPEFULLY back to 1-2x/night.

Solids? - I need to do better about offering snacks again. I got lazy which leads to DS being super hungry 30min before meal time.

What's a challenge you overcame in this breastfeeding journey? - it's been pretty smooth sailing. The lack of pump response & bottle acceptance was worrisome but fortunately those things weren't necessary to our situation.

Questions/AW? - between all 4 canines breaking through at once & that high fever virus causing epic nursing days, my supply has been through the roof, with an accompanying surge in hunger. Don't miss that. Think I'm about regulated to normal again.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in August? - another beach trip! Though it's with my ILs which can get a smidge dramatic.

seamonster no night weaning here. Sometimes I consider it but haven't gone through with it. Hate the interrupted sleep but don't mind the snuggles and comfort.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? 17 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? V suddenly have up become nursing so it's only been MOTN, once or twice with the latest sleep issues.

Solids? yes but like pp he is getting picky

What's a challenge you overcame in this breastfeeding journey? Pumping was awful. I never had a solid space at work to pump except for maybe three months of the whole year I pumped. I was jumping around and using other people storage or meeting space, and therefore got walked in on several times.

Questions/AW? seamonster at this point we are working towards night weaning. We were working on dropping to once MOTN, hoping to cut out MOTN before dropping the bedtime but V had other plans. So far he seems less interesting in nursing at night wakeups but his sleep is awful right now so I don't know. He has a sippy that I offer him at times but mostly he rejects it. I'm hoping that once his sleep goes back to normal that we can get back to dropping that last session.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in August? Visiting with my grandparents.

[agm04]

lilyelayne DD nursed like crazy over the weekend, and I felt so engorged yesterday and was really hungry too! It's easy to forget that they're consuming any real amount of milk these days, but hello, reminder.

[dmorgendorffer]

How old is your LO? 17.5 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? nursing 2x a day and milk 2-3x a day

Solids? So picky. Also she suddenly doesn't want to eat in her highchair but when we take her out she wants to eat the leftovers standing up.

What's a challenge you overcame in this breastfeeding journey? The toughest challenge was definitely those first few weeks. I spent a small fortune on everything I could try to heal my nipples. Motivation to pump at work was also a tough one, I am glad thats over.

Questions/AW? DD has started saying "milk".

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in August? I think I'm going to take a real vacation day, we don't have a real vacation planned this year but I need a break from work. Maybe the day for DD's 18 month appt we can do something fun.

[dmorgendorffer]

seamonster we don't nurse overnight anymore, I just stopped offering when it stopped reliably putting her back to sleep. I tried having DH be the one to go in for MOTN wake ups but he can't get her back to sleep so I still go, but I do let her CIO for about 15 minutes before I do, she usually goes back to sleep on her own in that time. When I do get up I've been trying to comfort her without actually taking her out of the crib, but that never works and I usually I just end up rocking her back to sleep without nursing.

[seamonster]

dmorgendorffer thanks for the MOTN advice. I hear you about refusals to suit and eat in the high chair. DS only wants to sit in regular chairs after we sure out at a number of places that didn't have high chairs. For the most part we let him. He's getting too big for a lot of high chairs anyway.