6-12 month check in - 1/2

[jewel441]

Happy New Year!

How old is baby?

How often are you nursing? Solids?

How are nights?

How is pumping/nursing going?

Q/rants/raves

GTKY: did you do anything for New Years? Did you stay up until midnight?

[jewel441]

How old is baby? 10 months tomorrow. I can't believe it!

How often are you nursing? Solids? NOD, about 7-10 times in 24 hrs I think. 3x/ day solids

How are nights? They were great. LO went down to 1 wake up, but then travel and food poisoning (for me) killed that. My supply has recovered and we are home so hopefully it goes back down! She is back down to 3 wake ups and it seems to be slowly improving... so FX it gets better

How is pumping/nursing going? Good. No pumping here

Q/rants/raves

GTKY: did you do anything for New Years? Did you stay up until midnight? No and no. Did not even attempt.

[westiemom]

Thanks jewel! Sorry for the food poisoning!

Baby is 8.5 months

We nurse 6-7 times a day. Solids 3 times a day.

Nights are 2 wake ups which I'm fine with.

Nursing is better this week! Biting has slowed down. She is still refusing some but I am just letting her lead and trying not to worry about it.

GTKY: We went to a dinner for DH's Aunt's 86th birthday but we were all in bed by 9!

[Deleted]

How old is baby? 7.5 months

How often are you nursing? Solids? Nursing 4-5 times a day and I have no idea how much at night. We bed share and she eats while I sleep. Probably at least 4 times. Solids usually once a day. Sometimes more snacks.

How are nights? Pretty good. She sends to have stopped screaming as much. So that's nice. And today she let me sleep in, so that was nice of her.

How is pumping/nursing going? Really well. Though she gets really distracted when I try to nurse her around other people. It's almost not even with trying.

Q/rants/raves: nope.

GTKY: did you do anything for New Years? Did you stay up until midnight? We had the neighbor kids over and stayed up until 11:30, but then Ridley was ready for bed so we called it a night.

[frecklesnbrains]

How old is baby? DS is 7 months

How often are you nursing? Solids? DS is on a nursing strike which I posted about on a separate thread, but we're working on getting back on a routine we were in before I was sick and out of commission for over a week. That routine was nursing 2-3 times per day and bottles of pumped milk at daycare. We're doing solids 1-2x/day.

How are nights? Good. DS has been sleeping through the night for long enough that I actually can't remember MOTN nursing sessions anymore.

How is pumping/nursing going? Right now I'm pumping 5x per day to try to reestablish supply after an illness that pretty much destroyed it. I'm happy with how my supply is rebounding - I went from pumping only a few drops to now 3-5oz per session. This is enough for over 1/2 of DS's volume needs. My let-down is painfully slow though - I'm taking 20-25 min per session to get that volume. I'm hopeful it will keep getting better and that DS will quit his nursing strike.

Q/rants/raves: I really miss breastfeeding. I didn't realize how important it was to me until we stopped.

GTKY: did you do anything for New Years? Did you stay up until midnight? LOL. We tried so hard to stay up but didn't make it past 10.

[cinnamonsmiles]

How old is baby?
9.5m

How often are you nursing? Solids?
7x a day total? Don't really keep track but it's a decent amount. Solids 2x a day, moving to 3x soon now that we are done traveling.

How are nights?
Eh. She can totally sleep 9-6 but very rarely does. Usually up 1-2 times in that time frame.

How is pumping/nursing going?
Decent. No pumping here.

Q/rants/raves
I need a miracle to keep my children from waking each other up at night because the current situation just isn't cutting it

GTKY: did you do anything for New Years? Did you stay up until midnight?
Nothing fun. Did stay up until midnight, but only because the fireworks woke LO up.

[halfahippy]

How old is baby? 10 months yesterday

How often are you nursing? Solids? 7-8 times a day. Pumping once a day in the morning.

How are nights? They were really great with only 1-2 wake ups. But the last couple have nights have been horrible. Last night she was up from 11:30-3:30, then again at 4:30. So tired.

How is pumping/nursing going? No complaints.

Q/rants/raves in 75 ounces away from my goal of 500 oz of donated milk! I'm hoping I can hit it before I start weaning. If I don't, it won't be the end of the world. It's a self-imposed goal.

GTKY: did you do anything for New Years? Did you stay up until midnight? DH had to work, so I was home alone with the kids. They went to bed at their normal time and I sorted baby clothes in the next size. I was in bed by 11 but the fireworks woke me up at midnight.

[sandandsea]

Yea! I've made it to this group! Ds is 6 months now!

I NoD when we are together and pump at work. He gets solids twice a day but we have just started so he doesn't eat much yet.

Nights are not great. He's up every 2-4 hours but goes back to sleep pretty well usually. I'm trying to only feed after 4 hours and we are working on that.
Pumping is good. This week is a little funky since I was just with him for 10 days and didn't pump. So my pumping output is all over.

We went to a friend's for New Years where ds1 vommitted all over around 8:30 so we left and took baths and went to bed.