Extended Breastfeeding Check-in, 12/8

[vvvvvfee]

For the purposes of this check-in, we will define extended breastfeeding as breastfeeding beyond 1 year. Questions are repeated and suggestions are appreciated!

1. How old is your LO?
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse?
3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler?
4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)?

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms?

Tandem Nursing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any current challenges? Questions for other moms?

Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie?

[vvvvvfee]

1. How old is your LO? 16 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 5-ish
3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler? Cuddles, quick and easy, don't have to pump.
4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)? No real quotes yes, but it's funny how businesslike and efficient DS2 is compared to DS1, who wanted to linger and nurse forrrreeeevvver. DS2 pulls up the flap on my bra after he's done with one side and then tries to tug down the other one. Then he's off to do something else.

Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie? As a kid I was weirdly obsessed with the unbearably cheesy 80's romantic comedy Date With An Angel.

[billyhorrible]

1. How old is your LO? 17 months

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 2-3 times

3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler? even though he's nut still, nursing is the stillest he gets while awake.

4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)? I swear that nursing before bed is his favorite time of day. DH does bath, pajamas, story, then calls me. And the little guy lights up like it's Christmas morning every night.

Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie? Either Labyrinth or Princess Bride.

[seamonster]

1. How old is your LO? 21 months

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 0-1

3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler? Cuddles and how calm he is.

4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)? For a while he was very polite when he was done and would try to fasten my bra cups for me.

Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie? The Little Mermaid

[lilyelayne]

1. How old is your LO? - 21mo

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? - 3-4

3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler? - cuddles. The different things he brings to me while we nurse, usually a book to read but sometimes he's just hoarding. Once he nursed with a blankie, 2 stuffed animals, and a dump truck.

4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)? - sometimes if he calls "momma!!" and doesn't get my attention, he'll call "mik mik!!" which is what he calls nursing. It's my other name haha.


Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie? - I've always loved movies so it's hard to pick one. All Dogs Go to Heaven and Labyrinth come to mind.

[valie]

1. How old is your LO? 2.5
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 0-3x
3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler? He likes to snuggle while nursing.
4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)? I don't know about best, but he sure says what's on his mind. He did this one recently after being offered expressed milk in a cup, "No, I don't want that pumped milk. I want breastmilk. From Mommy's breast."

Tandem Nursing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any current challenges? Questions for other moms? We're good. DD is sick as anything so DS is getting some bonus antibodies which is good.

Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie? I don't know, maybe Aladdin.

[BabyStandish]

1. How old is your LO? 23 months..looks like we are going to make it to age 2
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 6-8
3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler? the cuddles
4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)? I always laugh when we get home from being out and I open the door to get him out of the carseat and the first thing he says to me is "boob?"

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms? supply on my left side has definitely tanked and it's pretty painful on that side. I'm not sure if that's related or what? So I only offer that side about once a day. Sometimes DS doesn't ask for boob when he wakes up in the morning which is a new thing. I'm guessing my supply is pretty low so food is more interesting to him when he's actually hungry.

Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie? The Three Lives of Thomasina

[kensie5226]

1. How old is your LO? 13 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? We had it down to 2-3 and then she got croup and we've been back up to 6-7.
3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler? I'm ready to be done. But, I'm glad something was able to comfort her in sickness.
4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)? She's been trying unbutton or pull my shirt lately. It's cute, but embarrassing in the wrong time/place.

Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie? The Princess Bride, and it's still my fave movie.

[kensie5226]

lilyelayne, All Dogs Go to Heaven terrified me as a kid!

[lilyelayne]

Dec 9, 2016 9:04:09 GMT -5 kensie5226 said:

lilyelayne, All Dogs Go to Heaven terrified me as a kid!

Oops! That was me and the Last Unicorn. My sister loved it, and I was scared!

[geners]

1. How old is your LO? 12m
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? Usually 4-6x & once MOTN. On days I work, just once in the a.m., before bed and MOTN.
3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler? Love the quiet time alone with him, and that it provides comfort when nothing else will
4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)? He's pretty little still but he's just recently started trying to climb to get to me when I'm getting set up in the rocking chair to nurse. Starting to assert himself more

Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie? The first movies I remember watching regularly were The Goonies and Stand by Me (we didn't watch tv/movies much when I was really little)

[sunfrogger88]

1. LO is 12.5mo

2. 4-6 including overnights. I am testing not pumping at work so.. We'll see!

3. The eyes and the way she melts into me!

4. We're in the acrobatics stage so.. Lol

GTKY: Little Mermaid!

[yummeecookee]

1. How old is your LO? 13 m

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 2x on most week nights. In weekends it's 2-4x

3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler? The fact that it seems to be the only thing that can get him to relax. This kid is a mile a minute otherwise.

4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)? I just like when he grabs his blankie and runs over to the glider in his nursery. The he looks at me and shouts so I know he's ready for nursing and bed.

Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie? Sleeping Beauty

[packmomma]

1. Almost 16 months
2. 6ish plus once motn sometimes.
3. It's a nice way for him to calm down and his sleeps all over the place right now so it's helpful to get him to nap as well.
4. He will run over to the glider on the weekends if I've been away for a bit. As soon as a he sees me he'll laugh and then run over and climb in to the chair. It's just the cutest thing.
Drop dead fred.

[byjove]

Hello! I am new here. I nursed DD1 until 25 months (I was pregnant and she weaned about 3rd trimester) and am not sure what my plan with DD2 is yet! She has a long list of severe food allergies which has put me on basically a modified TED diet, among other challenges, so it feels good to know we made it to the year mark at least! I night weaned DD1 at 18 months, hoping to possibly do DD2 (Margs) a little earlier. Sleep is a huge challenge for us right now. She also doesn't have a huge diet so I am afraid to stop pumping at work. I am hoping to drop to two pumps at work after the holidays. Right now it is mostly 3x a day, sometimes 2x when I am burnt out (I hand express).

1. 12 months
2. Countless times right now. Normally 7-8x, but teething, WW8, and a cold brings us to almost constant nursing at night these last weeks.
3. I am able meet her nutritional needs.
4. She nurses to sleep clutching a wet wipe. It's her thing LOL
NONBFing Q: All of the Hailey Mills movies

[gdaisy09]

1. 12 months
2. Most days she nurses 4-5 times, we need to get better with food(she's not a big eater) I'm not sure what she's "supposed" to be doing at this age. I'm having emotional issues with nursing less.

3. I love the cuddles, and when she clearly wants that bonding time (motor boating, tugging at my shirt, etc)

4. Not really talking here yet, but when she's nursing she likes to shove her hand in the opposite bra cup and pull out my nursing pad.

My favorite childhood movie was Mary poppins

[sunfrogger88]

@gdaisy9 we also put our hands on the opposite boob. She can't sit still for a minute!

[sunfrogger88]

I find myself missing her more since we don't nurse as much. I haven't missed her a lot during the work day but the last week or two have been hard. Normal?

[gdaisy09]

Dec 14, 2016 11:03:07 GMT -5 sunfrogger88 said:

@gdaisy9 we also put our hands on the opposite boob. She can't sit still for a minute!

we have birthday twins! yes, she's so busy! she pulls the nursing pad out like it's some kind of magic trick and then spends the whole nursing session waiving it around

[sunfrogger88]

Dec 14, 2016 13:07:45 GMT -5 gdaisy09 said:

Dec 14, 2016 11:03:07 GMT -5 sunfrogger88 said:

@gdaisy9 we also put our hands on the opposite boob. She can't sit still for a minute!

we have birthday twins! yes, she's so busy! she pulls the nursing pad out like it's some kind of magic trick and then spends the whole nursing session waiving it around

Turkey babies!!

[pantaloons55]

Hi! Hope its ok if I join right in. I'm a member of the N15 board but fell off the earth for the first year. Really could have used this board in the early days, but was just barely surviving those early months, so I'm here now.

1. How old is your LO? 13 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 4-6, occasionally more on weekends
3. What is your favorite thing about nursing a toddler? That he's so much more efficient at it, and the cuddles. Its the only way I can get him to be somewhat still (but not really, SO figety) for more than a second.
4. Best quote about nursing from your LO (or cutest nursing-related story if your LO is littler)? I love that when I get him home from day care, I walk to the couch to nurse and he is all excited and giggly. Its adorable.

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms?

Tandem Nursing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any current challenges? Questions for other moms?

Non-BFing question of the week: What was your favorite childhood movie? Ferngully

[packmomma]

Dec 14, 2016 11:03:37 GMT -5 sunfrogger88 said:

I find myself missing her more since we don't nurse as much. I haven't missed her a lot during the work day but the last week or two have been hard. Normal?

I think it's totally a normal feeling. When W drops a nursing session (especially at bedtime) I really miss it.

[packmomma]

pantaloons55 I loved ferngully!!

[pantaloons55]

Dec 14, 2016 16:05:49 GMT -5 packmomma said:

Dec 14, 2016 11:03:37 GMT -5 sunfrogger88 said:

I find myself missing her more since we don't nurse as much. I haven't missed her a lot during the work day but the last week or two have been hard. Normal?

I think it's totally a normal feeling. When W drops a nursing session (especially at bedtime) I really miss it.

Me too. I feel like I'm going to have a harder time (eventually) giving it up than he is.

[seamonster]

Dec 15, 2016 9:28:22 GMT -5 pantaloons55 said:

Dec 14, 2016 16:05:49 GMT -5 packmomma said:

I think it's totally a normal feeling. When W drops a nursing session (especially at bedtime) I really miss it.

Me too. I feel like I'm going to have a harder time (eventually) giving it up than he is.

I cried the first night DS didn't want to nurse at all at bedtime. My baby growing up makes me emotional.