Extended Breastfeeding Check-in, 1/5

[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 online breastfeeding resource?
4. Have you had to give up any foods while nursing due to allergies in your LO?

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: If you could pick any first name for yourself, what would it be?

[byjove]

Lo will be 13 months next week. During the day she only nurses 2 or maybe 3 times right now. At night she wants to nurse several times, and then cluster feed early morning. My favorite online resource is definitely Kellymom.

Allergies. Oh man. Right now no dairy, soy, eggs, beef, peanuts, fish, shellfish, alcohol, wheat, corn, oats, rice, legumes, green beans, peas, and I'm forgetting something. In the allergy FB group I'm in there are a lot of moms on a TED of like 8 things, which include an oil and salt. I consider myself lucky.

Nonbf-ing question. I am not sure, but I've never loved my popular 80's name. DD2 is Margaret. I could have seen myself with a name like that.

[BabyStandish]

1. How old is your LO? will be 2 in 4 days
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 4-6 during the day
3. What is your favorite online breastfeeding resource? kellymom and here
4. Have you had to give up any foods while nursing due to allergies in your LO? nope

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms? supply is probably non-existent but he still asks for it and nurses to sleep

Non-BFing question of the week: If you could pick any first name for yourself, what would it be? I have no idea. I like my name a lot so I can't imagine anything else.

[billyhorrible]

1. How old is your LO? 19 months

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 3-7

3. What is your favorite online breastfeeding resource?kellymom

4. Have you had to give up any foods while nursing due to allergies in your LO? caffeine. It super affected by first, so I didn't even try it with my second.

Non-BFing question of the week: If you could pick any first name for yourself, what would it be? Daisy.

[valie]

1. How old is your LO? 2.5
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 2
3. What is your favorite online breastfeeding resource? Here!
4. Have you had to give up any foods while nursing due to allergies in your LO? No.

Tandem Nursing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any current challenges? Questions for other moms? We're good. DS shows no signs of slowing down, but since I'm feeding the LO anyway it's nbd.

Non-BFing question of the week: If you could pick any first name for yourself, what would it be? Whoa. Hard question. I love Margot, but I'm not French.

[vvvvvfee]

1. How old is your LO? 17 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 4-5
3. What is your favorite online breastfeeding resource? Kellymom and Dr. Jack Newman's site
4. Have you had to give up any foods while nursing due to allergies in your LO? Nope

Non-BFing question of the week: If you could pick any first name for yourself, what would it be? When I was younger I definitely would have preferred a short, unisex name (Kai or Skye come to mind), since my actual name is long and kinda flowery. But since everyone calls me by my name's nickname anyway, I guess it doesn't much matter.

[seamonster]

1. How old is your LO? 22 months

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

3. What is your favorite online breastfeeding resource? Here, kellymom, Jack Newman

4. Have you had to give up any foods while nursing due to allergies in your LO? Nope

Non-BFing question of the week: If you could pick any first name for yourself, what would it be? My fake name in my 20s for going out was Hannah

[yummeecookee]

Hi - I'm still here!

1. How old is your LO? 14mo today! Aaawww
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? Down to 1x time now. I've been working on dropping the before bed session for the past 2 weeks and it looks like we're there.
3. What is your favorite online breastfeeding resource? Kellymom of course, here, LLL
4. Have you had to give up any foods while nursing due to allergies in your LO? No- thankfully, though I didnt drink any caffeine at dinner.

Non-BFing question of the week: If you could pick any first name for yourself, what would it be? Lila. We had Lila picked out for my DD throughout my entire pregnancy. We went with something else about 2 weeks before I delivered.

[lilyelayne]

BabyStandish happy early birthday to your LO!

[lilyelayne]

1. How old is your LO? - 22 mo

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? - 3-5x day

3. What is your favorite online breastfeeding resource? - kellymom, Nancy mohrbacher. Fav fbook group is Evidence Based Breastfeeding Support. Fav place to participate is here :-)

4. Have you had to give up any foods while nursing due to allergies in your LO? - no. For the first few months I gave up jalapeños because DS would give me crazy eyes after I ate them. Guess he didn't like the taste. Didn't cause any problems though.

Non-BFing question of the week: If you could pick any first name for yourself, what would it be? - I love my first name, so I wouldn't change it.

[geners]

1. How old is your LO? A little over 13 months
2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? 4-6x plus once MOTN
3. What is your favorite online breastfeeding resource? Kellymom or here for sure (both this board and my BMB)
4. Have you had to give up any foods while nursing due to allergies in your LO? No but I limit caffeine (and wine)

Non-BFing question of the week: If you could pick any first name for yourself, what would it be? Interesting. Growing up I haaaated my uncommon, often misspelled and mispronounced name. I longed for something easy (I remember wishing my name was Molly for a while). Now that I'm thinking about it, I kinda like having something a little different. I think it suits me and I don't think I would change it.

[agm04]

1. How old is your LO? 22 months

2. How many times per day does your LO nurse? Usually just once, before bed.

3. What is your favorite online breastfeeding resource? here and kellymom

4. Have you had to give up any foods while nursing due to allergies in your LO? all dairy from when she was about 6 weeks to 9-10 months. Like @clgsquared said, losing baby weight was a breeze.

Pregnant & BFing Moms: How are you doing this week? Any issues with supply, pain, aversion? Questions for other moms? ugh pain and, to a lesser degree, aversion. no sign of her being ready to fully wean though, so i can tough it out once a day.

Non-BFing question of the week: If you could pick any first name for yourself, what would it be? i actually don't think i'd change it. i have a semi common 80s name, and never loved it growing up (i also wanted something shorter), but i like it now!

[sunfrogger88]

13.5mo
4-6
Tcf!
My DD has a peanut allergy that we've just learned about so until I know more, it won't be in my diet

GTKY : I like my name, I'm not sure I could pick another. Maybe the "long" version of my name so i found use both at my leisure?