2/6 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

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

Solids?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: does your SO have any feelings/thoughts/input on your nursing relationship? Was that true at the beginning? Has anything changed 2 years later?

[agm04]

How old is your LO? 23.5 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? once a day, but we've made it a few days without nursing here and there!!

Solids? she snacked too much yesterday - super bowl sunday for toddlers, too!

Questions/AW? it's been probably 4 nights since she REALLY nursed. thursday it hurt so bad that i cut it off after 5 seconds, friday we were able to seamlessly skip it in the bedtime routine, saturday we were out and our au pair put her to bed, and last night it hurt again and she was okay with 2 seconds and then stopping. like literally 2 seconds, and i said "sorry baby it's hurting mommy, can we skip it?" and she said okay. i told her we'd do lots of cuddles, and she said, "okay, but no milk". i feel SO BAD but it's also kind of amazing that it's gone so well so far. so i guess wednesday night was the last real nursing session (still short), which was sweet once it stopped hurting.

GTKY: does your SO have any feelings/thoughts/input on your nursing relationship? Was that true at the beginning? Has anything changed 2 years later? he was very supportive and on board to try for a year, but thought beyond a year was weird. but as she got older, he was softer about it than i was!

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - 23 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? - 4+/day, 0-1/night

Solids? - his appetite has been every hit or miss since starting the amoxicillin.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: does your SO have any feelings/thoughts/input on your nursing relationship? Was that true at the beginning? Has anything changed 2 years later? - I think DH is just interested in supporting me. Not sure he has any preference between bf & not. He's certainly not vocal & never has been. I asked recently and all he said is that DS loves his mik mik so much, so it's obviously a good thing.
He is very encouraging about LLL leader training and patient when I have to deal with the newborn check in at inconvenient times.

[lilyelayne]

agm04 so glad LO is adjusting well to less/no nursing. Take a pic next time she latches in case it's the last!

[agm04]

lilyelayne thanks! i'm surprised but grateful. i don't know that we'll have any more true nursing sessions. we just skipped it last night. part of me wants to offer again just to savor it one more time, but i also don't want to set us back. i'm out of town wed - fri, so if she asks tonight, i will probably do my best to let her nurse and then hope we're done when i'm back.

[seamonster]

agm04 I hear you about the pain with nursing after not nursing a couple days. I could grin and bear it for 30 seconds on each side and that was it. I would count aloud down from 30 and then take DS off. We've had a few nights where he's asked for a cup of milk before bed or that's the only thing that will calm him down MOTN when he wakes up upset. But he's still been good with not nursing.

[seamonster]

lilyelayne I hope G feels better.