Mommy Milk Memorial Day

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite outdoor summer activity?

[lilyelayne]

11 weeks. Nursing. I'm a bit afraid he won't take a bottle anymore cause it's been so long. I need to drag out the pump & make myself deal with it.

Last night when we were nursing in DS's room with only the nightlight on, I remembered in the early days straining to see by the nightlight to help him latch. And last night I just put him in the vicinity of my breast and he latched on like a champ, even on the inverted nipple. I'm so proud of him.

GTKY: swimming & laying out, especially at the beach!

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? 16 weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Bf

Questions/AW? On average, how many times do your nurse LO during a day (24 hr prriod)?
We do 7 which includes one night feed.

GTKY: what's your favorite outdoor summer activity? Cottage time!

[lilyelayne]

mishka29 DS nurses 7 times in 24 hours. He typically sleeps 10pm-6am, with his last feed at 9pm.
Eta: it varies but he usually eats 6am, 9am, 11am, 2 or 230pm, 430pm, 730pm, 9pm

[cloe111479]

How old is your LO?15 wks.

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just pumping.

Questions/AW? Not so much a aw but a good lord. I pumped at 10:30 last night. Then little bit slept until 6:30. Then she fell back asleep until about 8:30. So I finally got to pump. I filled 3 bottles (4oz) on each side. Holy boobs! It didn't stop.

GTKY: what's your favorite outdoor summer activity? Bbq, swimming, and for the early part of it crawfish.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? 15 weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping at work.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite outdoor summer activity? Probably camping or going to the lake, but I don't get to do either often. I'm going to introduce LO to both this summer though.

[lilyelayne]

cloe111479 so much milk! Impressive!

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 14 weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? nursing and starting this week pumping for daycare feeds. Hopefully I can keep up with demand. I've got an ambitious every 2 hour pumping schedule and I'm starting back on the nursing tea and oatmeal to boost production.

Questions/AW? I made a thread on the BF board, but how much are you sending to daycare with LO and how long are they there for?

GTKY: what's your favorite outdoor summer activity? It was patio drinking, but I don't get to do that much now. Now it's park walks.

[seamonster]

mishka29, um 8 or 9? He cluster feeds in the evening so I count that as one. Sleeps from 9:30 or 10:30 (bedtime is so hard) to somewhere between 1:30 to 3:30 and then we start every 2-3 hours eating.

[osumegs]

How old is your LO? 14 weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping, but lo won't take bottles still

Questions/AW? Still no weight gain. Starting dairy elimination (started yesterday). Met with lc today. Possible tongue tie and lip tie discovered. Meeting with pediatric dentist soon about that. Really trying to avoid formula unless it becomes safer to do formula

GTKY: what's your favorite outdoor summer activity? Boating or camping

[junebugjam]

How old is your LO? 14 weeks I think. I'm losing track. 3 months.

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing, pumping in vain.

Questions/AW? I'm getting close to accepting that my baby will never drink from a bottle. So frustrating. We met with the doctor in our group who's also a lactation consultant, and she gave us some advice, but none of it is working. I'm exhausted. So tired of trying.

GTKY: what's your favorite outdoor summer activity? Lounging by the pool or ocean.

[lilyelayne]

osumegs I hope getting the ties fixed helps!
junebugjam sorry your LO still won't take a bottle

[osumegs]

junebugjam ours still won't either. We are debating ordering the mimijumi or whatever it's called since it has a guarantee. it's frustrating isn't it!

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11 w 2days

Nursing mostly. But since my boobs now have decided to increase production I try to pump a little too.

I got nothin'.

Swiming or sunbathing.

osumegs and junebugjam Hugs for LOs not taking the bottle. I really hope you can work it out.

cloe111479 Whoa, that's impressive!

lilyelayne Your little guy is so good!

mishka29 I haven't really counted, but typically it's between 8-10 times.

[lilyelayne]

badw0lf love tit for support. I'm sorry you're having supply problems. The BF board can give you advice on power pumping & such to try to increase, and someone there may have advice on combo feeding BM & formula. My best guess for combo feeding is trial & error til you figure out what your LO wants, not that that's helpful advice. No matter what you feed your child, you're a great mom. Internet hugs!

[junebugjam]

May 25, 2015 15:34:16 GMT -5 osumegs said:

junebugjam ours still won't either. We are debating ordering the mimijumi or whatever it's called since it has a guarantee. it's frustrating isn't it!

We have the mimijumi. It shows the most promise but he still won't really take it. He drank 2 ounces from it over like a 6 hour span the other day. I gave him a day off from the bottle today and will try again tomorrow.

[osumegs]

May 25, 2015 18:53:47 GMT -5 junebugjam said:

May 25, 2015 15:34:16 GMT -5 osumegs said:

junebugjam ours still won't either. We are debating ordering the mimijumi or whatever it's called since it has a guarantee. it's frustrating isn't it!

We have the mimijumi. It shows the most promise but he still won't really take it. He drank 2 ounces from it over like a 6 hour span the other day. I gave him a day off from the bottle today and will try again tomorrow.

I may order it then and give it a go. That's good it at least shows promise

[cougarette]

3 months today!

Nursing and pumping at work

No questions for me this week

Going to the beach, though we may not get to go much this year. Which is sad since we live at the beach.

[cougarette]

mishka29 We also average about 7 feedings a day. 3 of those are at daycare and one is motn.

[cougarette]

seamonster I've been sending 4 3oz bottles, but he usually only takes 3 of them. One day he had all 4, so I'll keep sending it and if he doesn't have it there then DH will give it to him when they get home. He's at DC from 8-5 and with DH until I get home at 6.

[greenpony33]

How old is your LO? 15 weeks


Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nirsing, pumping while at work
Questions/AW?Nope, not now
GTKY: what's your favorite outdoor summer activity? Tubing down the river (annual trip with a few members of DH family), but I'm not sure how well do that this year with DS,might have to skip it until next year


seamonster I send 5 3oz bottles to day care but DS usually only eats 4. He is there from about 615a-4/430p and then he is with DH until 745/8 when I get home. DH usually gives 1 or 2 bobbles depending on DS schedule for that day.

mishka29 DS is eating about 10-11 times a day- usually 2 or 3 of them are MOTN. Our night time is very similar to seamonsters.

[cloe111479]

Seamonster-- my LO is at the sitter from 7:30-4. I send 3 4oz bottles. She usually eats right before she goes. and typically only eats two of them there and then the 3 she eats around 5-5:30.

[seamonster]

badw0lf, 4oz is probably a good start. Are you substituting a full or partial feed. What we did when supplementing was take the number of oz he should get total if EFF, and divide by the number of times he wanted to eat. He maxed out at 4oz.

Since you're EPing Kellymom has a calculator for figuring out how much bm you need based on amount of formula or vice versa.

[seamonster]

badw0lf, don't beat yourself up about needing formula. What's important is your baby is getting fed. I had such tremendous guilt over supplementing, but in the end baby was happy and fed. Feeding babies is a tough job.

[seamonster]

Thanks for the bottle advice. I'm going to send 4 3.5oz bottles and see how that goes. Plus some small bags from my stash.

Hopefully pumping at work goes well. I'm ok with sending in a bottle of formula if we need to, but fingers crossed I can get enough out.

[kartish]

badw0lf, hugs for support! Just remember you are doing awesome and feeding formula doesn't change that one bit.

[flyster]

How old is your LO? Less than a week away from 4 months (!)

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping

Questions/AW? At the inlaws this past weekend I had a little shadow "helper". His cousin's 6 year old daughter who was obsessed with DS. She found me nursing fascinating, so we had quite the audience.

GTKY: what's your favorite outdoor summer activity? Used to be camping and canoeing. Most summers I've managed to convince DH to go on a 3-6 day canoe trip with some friends. Last year we went to the Boundry Waters in Minnesota with a friend who was also about 4 months pregnant at the time. It was the perfect point in our pregnancies to go: Past the most risky time, and before we started getting really uncomfortable (although getting up to pee multiple times in the night sucked) . This summer we are renting a house near the finger lakes with about 15 other people including that same couple, and me and my friend are planning on ditching the babies for a day to rent Kayaks to get our fix. The babes will be a bit small still for boating.

[michelle142]

How old is your LO?
3 months, 5 days (that went FAST!)

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing when together - pumping at work


GTKY: what's your favorite outdoor summer activity?
Bonfires and Bike rides (not together of course, that would be silly).

[michelle142]

mishka29 we're at about 8-9 times in 24 hours.

[michelle142]

seamonster I'm away from DD 6am to 430pm Monday-Friday.

I make up 5, 3oz bottles. DH gives her one around 7am, then the rest go to daycare. Sometimes she takes all 4 at daycare, sometimes only 3 of them.

ETA: When she doesn't take the 4 bottle at daycare, that one carries over to be the first bottle of the next day.