Tata Tuesday 6-2

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Anyone else still want to play?

1) Any questions, complaints, or victories to celebrate?
2) Anyone else still feeding MOTN on a regular basis?
3) My question: for those of you planning on TTC soon (or who are already pregnant), do you plan to wean soon or attempt tandem feeding? Anyone have experience doing this they want to share?

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1) Any questions, complaints, or victories to celebrate?
J has been sick with a sinus infection and comfort nursing a lot. Boobs were not meant to nurse a child with 11 teeth this often. Ouch.

2) Anyone else still feeding MOTN on a regular basis?
Yes - the reason I asked. He generally wakes up at least once between 2am and 4am and wants to nurse. It's probably because I let him come to our bed then.

3) My question: for those of you planning on TTC soon (or who are already pregnant), do you plan to wean soon or attempt tandem feeding? Anyone have experience doing this they want to share?
We want to TTC starting in August and I'd like to quit nursing before the next LO arrives. J will be over 2 years old by then so hopefully he will have lost interest.

[katka512]

1. LO has started biting again. But we only nurse once a day, so I'm tolerating it for now.
2. No, we haven't fed motn in a long time.
3. I'd like to wean before becoming pregnant. We will probably go back to the fertility clinic in the fall, and I would like LO to self wean before then.
Although I think weaning will happen when we go out of town for a night or two later this summer.

[sanibel21]

We're down to 3 times per day. Some days I want to be done and some days I'm just so damn sad that she's not a baby anymore. Plus she has refused milk in every way shape and form, so I feel better that shes still getting some bm. However I don't think I'm producing much anymore.
No MOTN feedings for awhile now. Thank goodness because I was a royal zombie bitch when we did. Now I'm just a run of the mill zombie bitch, haha.
I always thought we'd be TTC by the end of this summer but I'm just not sure if I'm up to it yet. Either way I personally would want to be done breastfeeding by then. I just don't think I could handle breastfeeding and growing a human. I'm exhausted as it is.

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Anyone else still want to play? Yes!!!!

1) Any questions, complaints, or victories to celebrate? We are officially on WCM!! It was quite a process but it finally happened and she loves it!

2) Anyone else still feeding MOTN on a regular basis? None. My H actually does all middle of the night wakeups now. He is a pro too. She woke up last night and I swear he was in and out in 5 minutes and I never heard her cry out when he left the room.

3) My question: for those of you planning on TTC soon (or who are already pregnant), do you plan to wean soon or attempt tandem feeding? Anyone have experience doing this they want to share? I am in the process of weaning. I feel she is actually self-weaning right now. Our sessions went from 30 minutes to maybe 5-10 minutes. I weaned from nursing to sleep first, right after I found out I was pregnant. Then I cut out the sessions right before nap time. Then I cut out one of our afternoon sessions. So we went from 6 (sometimes 8) sessions/day to 3. I am about to cut the other afternoon session and only nurse morning and night. I will probably see what happens then. She may just completely stop on her own. If not, I will just try to cut the evening session and do morning and then just stop.

It is sad thinking about it all coming to an end. I don't want to tandem nurse though. The idea is not appealing to me in anyway. I also don't want DD to feel displaced when the baby gets here bc she can't nurse when she wants, etc. It will just be an easier transition for all of us if she is weaned prior to the new baby getting here.

[fish8412]

I'm still down for the weekly check in!

1) Any questions, complaints, or victories to celebrate?
Still nursing 1-2 times a day (wake up/bedtime). Some mornings she doesn't nurse.
I think I need to start mixing in whole milk with the frozen breast milk soon. This makes me sad for some weird reason. I'm also worried that LO won't like it.

2) Anyone else still feeding MOTN on a regular basis?
When LO turned 1, my husband started giving bottles during MOTN and after about a month she stopped needing milk in the MOTN.

3) My question: for those of you planning on TTC soon (or who are already pregnant), do you plan to wean soon or attempt tandem feeding? Anyone have experience doing this they want to share?
I personally would not want to tandem nurse. Kudos to those who do it/have done it.

[ellabee]

1) Any questions, complaints, or victories to celebrate?
Sometimes E just hangs out on the boob in the morning. Our 5 min sessions are now like 15-20 and sometimes I get antsy for her to unlatch. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the extra cuddles, but sometimes it just gets to me. Maybe it's because when she's just hanging on and not actively sucking I feel like I can feel her teeth more.

2) Anyone else still feeding MOTN on a regular basis?
No - we haven't had MOTN wake ups for quite a while.

3) My question: for those of you planning on TTC soon (or who are already pregnant), do you plan to wean soon or attempt tandem feeding? Anyone have experience doing this they want to share?
I have been thinking about TFAS more and more lately. I would put our TTC timeline at sometime this fall. I would plan to wean before then because I just don't think I could handle nursing while pregnant. That being said, I'm completely unsure about how to go about weaning. DD seems very attached to her morning and bedtime sessions. Maybe in a month or so I'll try to drop one and see how that goes...

Last comment: I wrote this on the BFing board, but anyone else have a LO who won't let you go near their fingernails unless they're nursing? I'm going to have to get creative once we wean because DD only lets me cut/bite/file hers while nursing.

[fish8412]

Jun 3, 2015 19:34:56 GMT -5 ellabee said:

1) Any questions, complaints, or victories to celebrate?
Sometimes E just hangs out on the boob in the morning. Our 5 min sessions are now like 15-20 and sometimes I get antsy for her to unlatch. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the extra cuddles, but sometimes it just gets to me. Maybe it's because when she's just hanging on and not actively sucking I feel like I can feel her teeth more.

2) Anyone else still feeding MOTN on a regular basis?
No - we haven't had MOTN wake ups for quite a while.

3) My question: for those of you planning on TTC soon (or who are already pregnant), do you plan to wean soon or attempt tandem feeding? Anyone have experience doing this they want to share?
I have been thinking about TFAS more and more lately. I would put our TTC timeline at sometime this fall. I would plan to wean before then because I just don't think I could handle nursing while pregnant. That being said, I'm completely unsure about how to go about weaning. DD seems very attached to her morning and bedtime sessions. Maybe in a month or so I'll try to drop one and see how that goes...

Last comment: I wrote this on the BFing board, but anyone else have a LO who won't let you go near their fingernails unless they're nursing? I'm going to have to get creative once we wean because DD only lets me cut/bite/file hers while nursing.

Yes, LO hates it when I file her fingernails.  My husband doesn't even try.  I do it when she is nursing or I will put the TV on for a few minutes.  That distracts her.