Mommy Milk Monday - Canadian Thanksgiving edition

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Solids?

How long do you plan on BF?

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own?

[agm04]

How old is your LO? 7.5 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping

Solids? All of the solids. We have a serious carnivore on our hands.

How long do you plan on BF? At least a year, and then as long as we both want to. I get really sad when I think about it ending.

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)? Oh god I'd do so much differently, but not feeding related.

Questions/AW? Not really bf related, but I feel like a veil has been lifted and I can finally enjoy motherhood. Idk if it's LO getting older and easier to manage, our awesome au pair, therapy time...but whatever it is, I am so grateful.

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own? Pajama pants?

[babycfeb2015]

How old is your LO? 8 months yesterday

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing occasionally pumping

Solids?
On about 2 meals a day right now. Veggie for lunch and oatmeal/fruit another veggie for dinner. Hes hit or miss on how much he will eat

How long do you plan on BF?
Hoping he self weans at a year

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)? I would probably try to include bottles at MOTN feedings at a younger age to encourage STTN

Questions/AW?
Anyone else feel like their baby is never going to sleep 12 hrs until their done bfing?

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own? I love my boots. Cant pick a favorite pair but wearing boots makes me happy!

[Deleted]

How old is your LO? 7mo

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing

Solids? This weeks teething has set us back a bit on solids, but she usually eats all of them and enjoys it, although we are not up to full portions yet.

How long do you plan on BF? I really don't have a specific plan. I go back to work in January, so hopefully she'll have quit all daytime feedings by then. I don't mind if she keeps up nursing in the evenings fo a bit longer though.

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)?
Haven't really thought about it. I wouldn't do BFing differently (although maybe pump a bit more and let DH take MOTN feedings more often). Since we are still in the middle of solids introduction and we are making it up as we go along I don't know if we'd do anything differently as we are still trying things.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own?
Well it's not nursing tanks, that's for sure! I am soooo sick of nursing clothing! Can't wait to use all my pretty non-nursing friendly work clothes again.

I do love my blazers - I wear them all the time.

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - 7 months + 1 week

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? - nursing

Solids? - new this week: porkchop, meatball, hamburger, eggplant, pear

How long do you plan on BF? - however long we both want to. 2 years, I think, if we're both willing.

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)? - eh. I think I should say be more consistent with bottles so he'll actually take them, but I go back and forth on whether I actually care. I think DH would appreciate it tho.

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own? - I don't know. Maybe the shoes I wore in my wedding (and then to pretty much every wedding I've attended since).

[lilyelayne]

agm04 I'm so glad you're getting to a place where you get to enjoy mothering. That's awesome.

babycfeb2015 I think in some cases STTN is just personality. Exclusively nursed, DS STTN from 2 months to 6 months (average 11 hours per night), and is hoooooopefully headed back that way, at least til he learns to pull up/sit up and all hell breaks loose again. I don't mean to brag about his previously great sleep, but I also don't feel like I had much to do with it, other than perhaps being available for nursing all day so he didn't reverse cycle like some kids do.

@alyllyra I miss my non nursing friendly clothes too

[cougarette]

How old is your LO?
7.5 months

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

Solids?
Purees. Though I did steam some carrot sticks last night, which I'm going to feed him tonight (we took a much longer walk than planned last night)

How long do you plan on BF?
At this point I really think I can make it a year. I'm still pumping 3x at work, though. I'm ready to drop a pump, but I don't know how.

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)?
I would try to be more relaxed in the beginning. I'll also try laid back nursing in the hospital instead of all the positioning and sandwich your boobs crap

Questions/AW?
It seems like I've asked before, but how do you start dropping pump sessions? Right now I pump at 9, 12, and 3. I think I'd like to consolidate the two in the morning so I am doing 11 and 3.

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own?
Some of my jeans that I've had for years. I was very happy when I fit back into them pp.

[cloe111479]

How old is your LO? She turned 8 Months on Friday.

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? -- Just Frozen milk.

Solids? Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

How long do you plan on BF? Until we run out of frozen milk. (approx a year)

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)? I would totally give breast feeding another shot and not just go straight to pumping. I was so worried about her being jaundice and eating enough that I followed DH's ideas of pumping and bottle feeding. (the nurse in him took over and he wanted to get her fed as quickly and effciently as possible). Now -- i know what my body can do, and the 2nd time around (if we are lucky enough to get a 2nd time) -- we won't jump to that as quickly.

Questions/AW? In the last week I have noticed that Quinn wants less and less of her bottles. Not so much that she doesn't take them.. but she wants to go and not be bothered with eating them. It meant we were throwing a little bit out each time. We started putting just 3 oz in each today. Anyone else?

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own? I have a black sweatshirt that i got when i worked in disney world that has magic kingdom embroidered on it.. I live in it at home when it gets cold. (you know those 5 days it gets cold here)

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? He'll be 8 months on Thursday

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping, still offering 3oz in a sippy cup at daycare of formula but he's not always drinking it

Solids? He loves them. Trying to incorporate more finger foods

How long do you plan on BF? Start weaning at a year. I'm not pumping after that

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)? I would see a private LC right away and not jump so quickly into supplementing or be pressured to give a bottle because my ILs are around and want to hold the baby or DH wants to entertain them and take the baby out. Different pump next time and hopefully better response

Questions/AW? DS has settled in his new curve. Consistently 91% for weight the last 4 months. His head is consistently 98% and DH has a big head so no concern there

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own? I have a green trenchcoat that I love. Other than that, yoga pants. Soft pants for life

[seamonster]

babycfeb2015 DS is down to one night wake up and I love it. DH would like it if I'd night wean, but I'm going to let DS wean himself until we hit a year. I'm afraid he'll always prefer to nurse to sleep and that will be some tough training to break.

cloe111479 You could try dropping bottle size. As they eat more solids they start to consume less milk. I think it's 16-21oz at the end of the year. Kellymom has a good guide to the research broken up by study and results.

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? 8 1/2

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? BF

Solids? #secondkid this kid is getting whatever. Today alone she had cheese, beets, corn and god knows what else for the first time.

How long do you plan on BF? Full time until a year and she goes to daycare then part time until 15/16 months.

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)? NO MORE says DH lol. But if...give a bottle earlier so I wouldn't be glued to LO.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own? A black cardigan which is 8 years old. I wish I had bought more.

[danitaec]

cloe111479, our guy is on the go and not finishing bottles in one sit. We usually try again about 10-15 minutes later and he will either finish or get close.

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? 8 months next week!

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Pumping and pumping and pumping!

Solids? Mostly purées, with some little chunks of things occasionally

How long do you plan on BF? Plan on weaning from the pump soon, with enough frozen to last til one year or more.

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)? Honestly, and this is probably a huge UO, but I am seriously thinking on EPing again. Not BFing was a huge disappointment, but hot dang can I pump! At least this time; next time could be completely different.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own? Sweaters, cardigans, sweatshirts, hoodies... Anything to keep me warm and cover up my pudgy parts.

[kaydee0402]

How old is your LO? Seven months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? All of the above

Solids? We started toast fingers this week (toast sliced into strips). I put butter on it and Little Man licked all the butter off, lol. And then I realized that he probably shouldn't eat butter yet, so I sent them to school plain today. I guess I could Google to see when butter is okay.

How long do you plan on BF? Until 11 months.

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)? Yes. I had an over-supply in the beginning and rather than doing what the pedi suggested to cut it back, I just should have pumped and saved it so I wouldn't have to supplement so much with formula now. Oh well, live and learn.

Questions/AW? Nope.

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own? Right now, my sweaters!

[junebugjam]

I'm late to the party.

How old is your LO? He'll be 8 months on Friday.

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing & pumping.

Solids? Purees, puffs, etc. Although he's not been thrilled with the purées lately so I wonder if he wants more finger foods.

How long do you plan on BF? Not sure. I fantasize about stopping because I hate pumping at work, but I don't think he's ready yet.

If you had another baby, would you do anything differently re: feeding (milk or solids)? Probably not.

Questions/AW? None

GTKY: what's your favorite article of clothing you own? A pair of sweats I have from VS. They're amazing.