10/19 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Solids?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume?

[RedGiant]

How old is your LO? 37 weeks (8.5 months)

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing. Should do more pumping so I have a"date night" stash.

Solids? She eats all the purees I give her. Only once a day so far since she still gets bad gas at night if she gets solids after noon.

Questions/AW? She is definitely on the move! She is crawling on hands and knees and pulling to standing. Plus more silly giggles and 8 teeth!

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume?

I really liked when I dressed up as Poison Ivy during college for a Halloween party. I pieced together an outfit using green tights and shoes, a black leotard spray colored green, and plastic ivy from a craft store that I wore in my hair and as accent points on my outfit. Finished with dramatic green smoky eye makeup. I just wish I could find a picture.

ETA: poison ivy the batman villain, not the plant

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 8 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping. Supplementing an ounce or two now to give LO a drink at meal time and use up our formula supply

Solids? Loves them. Working on finger foods, but MH is still nervous about them. Purees until he's 15

Questions/AW? Dropped to 3 pumps a day at work and it's so less stressful. Need to add in a night pump, but I can actually get work done. Which is good because I need a good review this year

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume? Playboy bunny one year was lots of fun. Went as Scully one year, but needed a Mulder

I'd love to do a Medusa costume one year with lots of fake snakes

[danitaec]

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

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Pumping, although I should/could probably start stepping back

Solids? Yep, apples and pears are his favorite, but I'm ready to try more finger foods.

Questions/AW? I pump 4 times a day. If I want to begin the weaning process would it be best to lessen each time or go to 3 pumps for a while first? I know it sounds weird but I'm afraid of stopping!

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume? I only ever remember 3 Halloweens where I dressed up. I liked last year where my baby belly got to participate, too.

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - ~7.5 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? - nursing

Solids? - lunch & dinner. New this week was ground deer (spaghetti sauce) and refried beans.

Questions/AW? - I feel like DS is reverse cycling a bit, wanting to eat at night when life is boring instead of during the day. Sometimes I'm successful offering more during the day, but not usually. The biting mostly passed! I tried backing off on solids but he didn't nurse any more, so I tried stepping up and that hasn't made much difference either. Oh well.

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume? - in college I went as a peacock. Dunno that it was an especially great costume, but I wore a shiny purple pencil skirt, a peacock blue shirt, & truly gigantic peacock feather earrings. Also I got to do crazy peacock eyeshadow, and I bought new purple heels. Was gonna AW a pic but the ones I can crop my friends out of I'm either super sweaty from dancing at a club or at home playing twister. Oh college.

[nbad311]

How old is your LO? 8 months tomorrow!

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? nursing & pumping. He is probably consuming somewhere around 23-25ox of BM a day.

Solids? Yes. Hodge-podge of purees and finger stuff. I let him pick off my plate when we are out to eat these days (or rather, get him his own plate of my food), obviously only baby-friendly stuff. He totally ate steamed broccoli yesterday and I was so tickled and proud. Broccoli! Broccoli is nasty dude (but I didn't tell him that)

Questions/AW? Anyone here use the Wonder Weeks app? Not really related to mommy milk, but DS has been sucking some nights at sleeping, and I'm wondering if the "leaps" really do account for sleep regression/other fussiness.

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume?
In 6th grade, my BFF sat on top of my shoulders (she's tiny and I'm big), held a huge staff, wore a long cape, and wore the Scream mask. We were like 10 feet tall, obvi. It was awesome, but I could only hold up for like 30 minutes before she got too heavy for me. But it was enough time to win the costume contest. :-P I wish I had a picture!

[lilyelayne]

nbad311 the timelines of the wonder weeks don't always line up for DS but pretty close, and some of the signs / skills are spot on. When he first started babbling, he'd wake up MOTN to chat to himself. And now that he's getting close to crawling, he'll wake up to try to practice that. So I'm buying it.

[cloe111479]

Oct 19, 2015 10:18:00 GMT -5 danitaec said:

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

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Pumping, although I should/could probably start stepping back

Solids? Yep, apples and pears are his favorite, but I'm ready to try more finger foods.

Questions/AW? I pump 4 times a day. If I want to begin the weaning process would it be best to lessen each time or go to 3 pumps for a while first? I know it sounds weird but I'm afraid of stopping!

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume? I only ever remember 3 Halloweens where I dressed up. I liked last year where my baby belly got to participate, too.

I totally feel you on the cutting the pumps.  It was HARD.  Stupid mommy guilt is a bitch.  I will say this -- the time i have saved without pumping is amazing.  I get up at 6, feed and change DD, get myself dressed, and out the door by 6:45 most days.  With pumping -- I was up at 5;15 to accomplish the same thing.  It is really nice. 

[cloe111479]

How old is your LO? 8 months and like 2 wks.

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just frozen.

Solids? anything she can get her hands on. I got some stage 3 purees with the little bits.. the first time she tried them, you would have thought I was killing her. The coughing that happened. There was like one tiny bit in her mouth and she was gagging like crazy. It was better as it went on and yesterday, it was even better. No more gagging, but i don't think she likes them as much as the just plain purees. We will see.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume? -- Hmm.. probably raggedy ann. My moms best friend's son was Andy. We wore them for halloween, and then again for mardi gras that year. My mom made both outfits.

[kaydee0402]

How old is your LO? 7 months.

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

Solids? So many solids.

Questions/AW? Does nursing a baby during flight take off work just as well as giving them a bottle? I know you need them to suck to help with the ears, but I know DS will be much more interested in the source than a bottle.

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume? My mom made me a Felicity dress (American Girl) one year. Loved it!

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kaydee0402 I nursed DD during take off when we flew, and it worked like a charm.

[Deleted]

How old is your LO?
7 months 2 weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing and occational pumping

Solids?
She will eat a big portion when DH feed her, but only a few bites if I do it. I guess she knows that with me, she can get access to "the good stuff" so she doesn't need to eat solids. Oh well, we keep trying.

Questions/AW?


GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume?
I was Cruella DeVille one year, that was nice. I'd like to have a chance to be Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas.

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? 8 1/2 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? BF

Solids? Yup she's eating everything we eat now.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume? A crayon lol

[lilyelayne]

kaydee0402 I was planning on nursing but DS slept through take off on all 4 flights. He was awake some landings but just chilled.

[mishka29]

Just remembered my question....

How many feedings a day is everyone doing?

We are doing 4-5 a day.

[seamonster]

kaydee0402 I nurse DS every flight. I start during taxi and hope it's a short taxi because sometimes I've had to really push the boob to keep him eating. Sometimes he's asleep during takeoff or landing and I nurse him as soon as he wakes up. A pacifier would work if LO is actively sucking.

[cougarette]

How old is your LO?
Almost 8 months

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

Solids?
Still just purees, but he is enjoying them. He's getting one at daycare and one at home

Questions/AW?
I know we talked about this recently, but how many and what size bottles are you leaving with lo during the day?

For the longest time I've been bringing 3 4oz bottles. Last week DS's teacher was suggesting 2 6oz bottles instead since he was having a hard time fitting in a third bottle.

I did that Thursday and Friday and it seemed to go well. Then today he only drank 3oz from his first bottle, 2 from his second and then the 2oz extra bottle I brought. I should mention that he switched teachers today, so maybe it was a fluke? Or he had a case of the Mondays? Either way I'm going back to 3 4oz tomorrow and see how it goes. I just hate to waste any.


GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume?
DH and I dress up every year to pass out candy. I can't think of a favorite, though.

[hollydfromtn]

How old is your LO? 10 days shy of 9 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing

Solids? Averaging 2 meals a day. We're on the tail end of a leap and about to cut 4 teeth I believe, so it's been tough to catch him happy enough to sit down and eat. He only ate once today. :/

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume? probably my princess costume that my Mamaw made me when I was like 8 or 9. She even made one of those big cone hats with the shimmery material that came off the top.

[lilyelayne]

[cougarette]

Oct 19, 2015 12:53:46 GMT -5 mishka29 said:

Just remembered my question....

How many feedings a day is everyone doing?

We are doing 4-5 a day.

Hmmm I'd say about 6 or so. 2 or 3 being bottles at daycare.

[seamonster]

cougarette I leave 2 4oz bottles and he had a sippy cup of formula that he drinks maybe an ounce of (will switch to water once we run out of formula). With commute he's there about 9 hours. I try to top him off in the parking lot before we go in, otherwise it's 10 hours. I went down from 3 bottles to 2 because he wasn't getting the third bottle in, but he also didn't need as much.

[cougarette]

The more I'm thinking about how many feedings we have I'm noticing that he's not eating as often, but from both sides which he hasn't done in a loooong time.

[duckker]

Oct 19, 2015 12:32:24 GMT -5 @alyllyra said:

kaydee0402 I nursed DD during take off when we flew, and it worked like a charm.

Second this. On the flight home she wouldn't nurse because she was so excited to look at all the people. I gave her a little piece of a BLW oatmeal cookie to chew-suck on and that seemed to do the trick, as well.

[lilyelayne]

Oct 19, 2015 12:53:46 GMT -5 mishka29 said:

Just remembered my question....

How many feedings a day is everyone doing?

We are doing 4-5 a day.

5-6 during the day, 1-2 overnight? Approximately? I include 5am as an overnight feeding because he goes back in his crib afterward even if he doesn't go right back to sleep.

[junebugjam]

I forget who asked what questions, but we're about 6-7 feedings a day. Morning, 3 while
I'm a work, 1 after daycare, bedtime, and once at night (sometimes twice but rarely).

As for size I had been sending four 4 oz bottles, but now I also send a puree so he's only been drinking 3 of the 4, and today he took a long nap so he only drank 2. I was considering doing three 5 oz bottles, but I don't know. Maybe he just doesn't need as many ounces?

How old is your LO? 8 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Nursing together, pumping in the morning and once at work. I dropped my lunchtime pump because it was too crazy. I've been getting 10-12 oz in one pump at the end of the school day, so I'm sticking with that for now. Much less daunting and maybe I'll actually make it to a year.

Solids? Purées mostly. Although he has been rejecting spoon feedings lately so I bought some baby food pouches that were on sale and he loves those. Puffs, wagon wheels, and mum mums too. Bought a mesh feeder but haven't gotten around to putting anything in it. Would like to try more finger foods soon.

Questions/AW? I think he cut his first tooth! He never lets me actually look in his mouth, but I can feel it's sharp and he's started biting at the end of his nursing sessions (ow) which he never did before.

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume?

Eh, I don't really love Halloween. I remember having a little red riding hood costume that I really liked as a kid. I'm super excited to dress up my LO though.

[duckker]

How old is your LO? 7 months and three weekish

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

Solids? All dem. She loved everything as a puree, but is definitely expressing preferences (and disgust) with some of the less mushy forms. Lots of nose wrinkling, then slooooowly holding the food up and dropping it over the side of the table. Some things she eats for a while, then tucks into the chair next to her. I can't decide if she likes and is saving for later, or doesn't like but doesn't hate and is just hiding so she won't have to eat it. I'm going to guarantee right now that I have already thought about this a thousand times more than she has.

Questions/AW? What is everyone using to guide their plans to wean from the pump? I wish so much that we had a deepfreeze; I don't think I'll be dropping any pump sessions early, and I want to continue nursing with wakeup and at bedtime even after I'm not pumping. I have this idea that maybe I will pump enough on my commute to send in after she's a year (which is possible--as long as that pump stays at around 10 oz). But I am over. it. with pumping during the work day. It's just a complete and utter bitch. I've tried really hard to make it painless/pleasant for myself, and I'm focusing on how lucky I am to be able to do it. But I'm tired of the whole thing. Especially since part of my job is to facilitate committees and training sessions, and having to "duck out" three different times for a half hour each time is tough to explain and always awkward/discombobulating when I'm the one running the meeting.

GTKY: what's your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? If you've never participated in Halloween, what would be your dream costume? I love the idea of Halloween and hate the practice. So I do stupid things like tell people I'm dressed as a Jehovah's Witness. I get overwhelmed by the need to have an amazing costume, and then inevitably end up making a huge mess of it.

[duckker]

Oct 20, 2015 20:03:30 GMT -5 mumomma13 said:

Questions/AW?

1) Did your nipples hurt when your LO started teething? I don't see or feel anything on his gums, but starting this week, I have been super sore.

2) How many oz of food (purees) are you giving LO a day? What about water?

1) Yep, and the right one is still especially painful. I had a bleb for the first time about a week ago, which led to a whole bad scene with the plugged duct and engorgement and etc. I'm not sure that the nipple soreness is related to that. But it's very tender and raw. Earth Mama Angel Baby Nipple Butter works pretty well. 

2) No earthly idea. Somewhere around 8-10, I guess. I think they give her 4-5 oz at daycare, of which I'm pretty sure she only eats some. With DH out of town, I've been falling down on the solids at dinner time. Everyone is too tired, so I just prioritize getting her into bed as smoothly as possible, and nursing as much as we can, because she's not really doing bottles at daycare this week. 

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Oct 20, 2015 20:03:30 GMT -5 mumomma13 said:

1) Did your nipples hurt when your LO started teething? I don't see or feel anything on his gums, but starting this week, I have been super sore.

2) How many oz of food (purees) are you giving LO a day? What about water?

1) So far, surprisingly, no. I was so scared of that, but she's only cut her bottom teeth do far, and her tounge covers those while nursing. And she hasn't bit me yet (knock on wood).

2) The amount really varies. I haven't tracked it. We give her water every meal though, she loves to drink from the sippy cup. None of our sippy cups have scales, but maybe 50-100 ml/day?

[mishka29]

1) only 2 teeth so not yet but I'm sure it will come at some point

2) not tracking the water and two weeks ago I would have said none. But now during meals she'll start screaming until you give her the water cup. I've tried the straw cup before and she just chewed on it but suddenly she's a pro at it. She loves her water.

[duckker]

danitaec, Found answers to both of our questions on Kellymom. Which, why don't I always just look there? Because that's where all the answers live...

kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/pumping/weaning-from-pump/

Also, this: "Most moms find that they can wean down to a few feedings a day (or even just one) and maintain their supplies at this level for extended periods of time. In established lactation, milk production depends primarily upon milk removal – if milk is removed from the breast, then the breast will continue to make milk." which makes me think I could probably drop to just my initial pumping session to get her milk for the day at school, and nurse the rest of the time. She's pretty much reverse cycling now.

I think I'll drop a pump somewhere around December. I'd like to keep donating, so maybe I'll just keep the lunch pump at that point and see what happens.

Ew, this makes me all nervous and sick-feeling.