Tata Tuesday

[fishbulb]

By popular demand, and since I am apparenlty the first in the check in to remember it's Tuesday.

So this week...

Challenges?
Triumphs?
Questions?
GTKY: How did you come up with your username?

[fishbulb]

Challenges? Just time and a possibly dying pump that I haven't had time to call Medela about yet. Also a little bit of soreness related to overzealous comfort nursing.

Triumphs? J is 10 months on Friday and I'm still going. At this point if I dried up tomorrow I'd feel happy with how far I got.

Questions? For those of you that formula supplement, how did you introduce it? We might be going that way when the freezer stash runs out.

GTKY: How did you come up with your username? It's from an episode of the Simpsons where Homer finds his picture on a box of Japanese dish soap. It turns out it was the product of a merger between two companies, one of whom had a fish for a logo and one who had a light bulb. They merged their logos and came up with a picture like Homer.

[sanibel21]

fishbulb the first time we supplemented with formula we did 4 ounces of breast milk and 2 ounces of formula, all in one bottle. The next was 3 and 3. And we've done 2 and 4 at the most since then.


Challenges- none this week!!
Triumphs- after many months of LO refusing to nurse at bedtime, she started nursing at bedtime again. And I love it!! Also we had to give her pumped milk one night at bedtime and when I pumped I got an ounce more than I normally do. So I think her bedtime nursing is increasing my bedtime supply.
Questions- none
Screen name- Sanibel Island is one of my favorite places and a lot of good things have happened on the 21st of the month.

[MadApple]

Challenges - My supply is annoyingly all over the place. This week, it's been hard to get what she needs. She seems to be hungry all day long.

Triumphs - Tomorrow is baby girl's birthday, so I'm glad to hit that milestone. Her well baby check is on Friday, and I'm hoping they'll tell me I can stop giving her fortified milk bottles twice a day. It's easier to just nurse.

Questions - None.

GTKY: How did you come up with your username? I honestly don't remember.

[Deleted]

Challenges: feeling like she has nursed enough to keep my supply up. I'm scared I will lose it before I'm ready to wean her.

Triumphs: we have less biting! Woohoo!!

Questions: none

Gtky: my username is based on my avatar. The puppy is a French bulldog whose name is Lentil (sometimes called bean). This picture is him as a baby so my username is babylentilbean.

Edit: to remove quote

[ellabee]

Challenges?
Got the stomach flu recently so my supply is so low. I'm hoping with DD being home from daycare due to the blizzard that nursing on demand today and tomorrow will help boost it back up.

Triumphs?
10 months tomorrow! I'm very excited to make it this far.

Questions?
Did anyone's LOs start cutting back on the number of oz per bottle now that they're eating more solids? DD gets three 5oz bottles at daycare, but I only ever pump 4 per session now. I only make up for the difference because she nurses on one side in the morning and I pump the other. I guess I'm asking if I should just start sending 4 oz bottles to daycare.

GTKY: How did you come up with your username?
DDs name is Ella and her middle name starts with a B.

[lincbeesmom]

Challenges? No challenges with breastfeeding, but I'm having issues with linc not wanting too many of the solid foods in offering. Boobs are great though!

Triumphs? LO has taken a few steps here and there!

Questions? No questions this week

GTKY: How did you come up with your username? I'm lincs mom!

[monster]

Challenges? No actual BF'ing challenges. More just thinking about weaning and feeling sad about that. Also concerned about how LO will adjust.
Triumphs? The biting issue seems to be resolved for now. Saying "no" and taking him off seemed to do the trick to teach him that biting mama isn't cool
Questions? Is anyone else planning to BF in the morning and at night with little/no BF'ing or pumping during the day? Has anyone tried or done it with their older children? If so, how long did your supply hold out.
GTKY: How did you come up with your username? It was the name of my dear pet. The name was ironic and also came from a children's song.

[fish8412]

Challenges? My husband has started to give a bottle in the middle of the night in hopes that this will help LO sleep through the night. The first few nights LO has taken the bottle but my husband cannot get her to pass out in her crib (so I had to rock her and put her in the crib). Last night she refused the bottle and wanted to nurse, but then my husband got her to pass out in the crib. So both times I had to get up. Boo. But, a bottom tooth is sooo close to coming through, so if she needs me I will be there for her.

Triumphs? LO is only waking up once in the middle of the night (instead of 3 or 4 like the past several weeks). Also, she is taking more steps with her walker every day!

Questions? Not this week.

[fish8412]

sanibel21 So happy that you can nurse LO at bedtime!! I really want to go to Sanibel Island! My brother and SIL have been a lot and love it there.

[katka512]

Challenges? Nothing too bad. Just have a very distracted eater. I sometimes wonder if she's losing interest in nursing. She gets excited when offered the breast but then is super distractible.
Triumphs? 10.5 months of EBF!
No questions this week
Katka is what my name "translated" to when I studied abroad and all my professors called me that.

[bennieangel]

fishbulb we just gave a full bottle of formula like we would breastmilk & he took it fine! He won't take formula cold (like BM) but otherwise he doesn't care. I would try that with lo first before mixing it with BM & risk wasting the BM if he doesn't take it

[bennieangel]

No new challenges this week still no nursing & still pumping my little amount.

10 months today! I'm really proud that he's still getting breastmilk - even if it's only 1/2 it's still something!

I'm tired of pumping. I just keep telling myself 6 more weeks & I'll start to cut back in prep for not pumping on vacation right after his 1st birthday.

We have a weight check on Friday & I'm expecting good news.

My username is my college + the fact that I'm an angel

[fishbulb]

Thanks for the supplementing tips everyone! monster I haven't tried it yet but my plan is to transition to just morning and evening nursing either when J turns one or when I'm no longer pumping enough for it to be worth the hassle. That's hopefully still two months away though.

[pinecone21]

I'm going to join in an effort to post more!

Challenges: LO has a cold and was so congested at night over the weekend that she was up every 2 hours. The only way to get her back to sleep was to nurse her. She kept popping off because she couldn't breathe, and then biting me when she latched again. It was awful, but we got through it and she is sleeping much better now.

Triumphs: Breastfeeding on a bench in a national park we visited this weekend. It was so peaceful and beautiful. Breastfeeding was so painful for me at first (inverted nipples) and I never thought I would love it this much.

Questions: none right now

GTKY: I like pine trees, and I guess numbers 1-20 were already taken on TB?

[jtizzay]

No challenges. Same old.

Triumphs. Still nursing and pumping. It's s triumph to me. I am super busy at work and it would have been easy to drop

Qns. None. I'm also curious who has gone to the daytime and nighttime nurse only. Everyone says your supply will adjust. I'm just suspect

It's a play on my old screen name so I was recognizable. Snd a play on my initials

[btbergstrom]

Challenges; my supply is tanking! My doc changed me to regular bc pills and I really think that is why based on what I have read. I have gone from getting 4 or more oz in 15 min to barely getting 3. Lo has also dropped her oz and i think it is because my supply is low. We have dropped an entire bottle at day care so instead of 15oz she is down to 10. She also is about 10 1/2 months so I know she is getting ready to transition. Plan is to call OB ASAP.
Triumphs: I've made it this far...I was terrified to breast feed and it hurt at first but I love it now.
Questions: I gotta call my pedi but I really want to start mixing bottles at 11 months with cows milk an breast milk. Someone rec this in the weaning thread so I want to do this.
Screen name is a mix of last name first names in my fam. I know lame and way to personnel but I'm boring.

[stace13]

I'll jump in here.

Challenges: None really. DS is occasionally too distracted to nurse but I can usually convince him to eat when I want him to.
Triumphs: Nursing this long for the second time around has been great!

Someone asked about supply balancing out for only night and day feelings. I still nurse DS full time but with DD we went to morning and night only at about 14 months. I produced a lot of milk with her and it took a week or so but it evened out faster than I would have expected. I do work around babies so I would occasionally let down milk in response to crying but that was manageable.

[babycaps]

Challenges: None, really!
Triumphs: Down to pumping only once a day. I only get 6-8oz but now I go to the gym after LO goes to bed instead of dinner/pumping/cleanup/bed. Instead it's LO to bed/Gym and shower/dinner/HANG OUT/bed! It's nice to have that time back.
No questions this week. So happy to have made it to 11months next week!

GTKY: Caps is a play on my last name. One of my friends asked me if baby caps was in the making yet and from then on we called the not yet conceived child babycaps! I actually don't like my SN, it doesn't give my the anonymity I would have liked to have had on TB. I don't mind it so much on proboards since it's not as popular.
But I will not change it