12/28 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Solids?

If you're thinking about weaning from the pump, what's your plan?
If you're thinking about weaning altogether, what's your plan?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in January?

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - 9 mo + 3 week

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? - nursing. Pumping once most days to build a stash.

Solids? - 3x day.

Weaning? - my plan is to let DS lead. Who's surprised haha. I suppose after one year I might try not offering, not refusing - or only offering at wake ups. But we'll see. FX we make it to two years, though with my independent boy I dunno if we'll do. Time will tell.

Questions/AW? - at DH's grandmother's on Christmas, I stepped into the formal living room (connected to the dining room) to nurse DS. I was standing up, holding him cradle and swaying. One of DH's uncles walked through and said something in passing. Another came in and started playing with DS's feet and talking to him! Neither one had any idea what was going on. It cracked me up.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in January? - I'm happy to be going to NoLa. I'm looking forward to seeing DS again when we return.

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? 10 months, 1 week

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just frozen

Solids? Yep, I feel like they should be chunkier than they are, but he eats 'em!

If you're thinking about weaning from the pump, what's your plan? DONE! If I remember correctly, I spread them out a bit, shortened each one, then slowly dropped a pump until all gone! I was nervous about it but it went well.
If you're thinking about weaning altogether, what's your plan?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in January? I have a music teacher conference I go to each year. I'm looking forward to starfishing the hotel bed and not getting up quite so early!

[agm04]

How old is your LO? 10 months

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

Solids? 3ish times a day. Just started giving her dairy yesterday...so far so good.

If you're thinking about weaning from the pump, what's your plan? Ummm. No plan yet, but I'll probably wean from it at one year.
If you're thinking about weaning altogether, what's your plan? No plan, and no desire to be done.

Questions/AW? Not nursing related, but we survived the 10 hour flights to Chile and back.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in January? Having my mom stay with us for a week while our au pair is in Germany visiting family.

[hollydfromtn]

How old is your LO? 11 months tomorrow

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing

Solids? 3 times a day with an occasional snack if I get hungry. He pretty much eats whatever and whenever I do. He's been refusing scrambled eggs lately, though.

If you're thinking about weaning from the pump, what's your plan?
If you're thinking about weaning altogether, what's your plan? No real plan yet, but I'd like to spread out our daytime nursing sessions so that he can spend longer stretches away from me. We've made it 11 months without a bottle which means I haven't been away from him for longer than 2hrs at a time :/. I don't plan on night weaning until he's ready. I love our late night sessions when the entire house is silent and it's just us in the dark.

Questions/AW? I just can't believe we've made it 11 months. I'm so proud of myself and LO for sticking with it.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in January? S turns 1 in January!!! How did that happen?!

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 10 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing

Solids? Adding more finger foods and feeding chunks of food with a spoon. DS likes to share and feed us so soggy bread and baby biscuits are the main offerings. Also, since H hates bananas it falls on me to offer DS chunks of bananas that may be shoved in my mouth

If you're thinking about weaning from the pump, what's your plan? Not currently pumping, but will just do a midday pump and decrease the time when I go back to work to keep from exploding. DS has dropped to nursing every 3-4 hours so that helps. I don't respond well anyway so it'll be mostly formula at daycare

If you're thinking about weaning altogether, what's your plan? I'm going to stop offering except morning and night and decrease the time there. Also going to try the Ferber sleep training method once we move DS into his own room. Plan to be done by May or June at the latest

Questions/AW? DS tries to sit up when he's done with a side. He has also tried to button my nursing tank when he's full. Not successful, but I appreciate the effort

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in January? My birthday. I may go out with some friends later in the month for fancy cocktails to celebrate.

[lilyelayne]

seamonster buttoning your nursing tank is adorable. DS sits up when he's done. Sometimes he signs "all done" while sitting up.

[lilyelayne]

Does anyone else notice a slower letdown when nursing? Seems like some days DS gets frustrated and I have to help letdown along. It's not all the time, but I've never had to do this before the last 2-3 weeks or so. Maybe he's just frustrated because he is learning impatience?

[kaydee0402]

How old is your LO? Nine months, four weeks (10 months on Friday!)

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

Solids? Give the baby all the food.

If you're thinking about weaning from the pump, what's your plan? Umm burn it? I only pump once or twice a day at work, so in February I'll probably slowly cut down to once a day and then progress to not at all.
If you're thinking about weaning altogether, what's your plan? Geeze, no plan. Baby boy loves to comfort nurse, especially at bedtime. I guess it's time to come up with a plan. I'm looking to the rest of F15 for inspiration!

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in January? Hopefully having a healthier month in our house!

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? 11 months today

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? BFing. Really need to start day weaning here...next week maybe

Solids? Eats all the food!

If you're thinking about weaning from the pump, what's your plan?
If you're thinking about weaning altogether, what's your plan? No plan yet. But LO starts daycare on the 11th so I gotta get something together. With dd1 I had it all planned out and stretched it over a numbers of weeks. #secondchild

Questions/AW? Nope

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in January? Well I have to go back to work so...

[mishka29]

Dec 28, 2015 16:21:52 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

Does anyone else notice a slower letdown when nursing? Seems like some days DS gets frustrated and I have to help letdown along. It's not all the time, but I've never had to do this before the last 2-3 weeks or so. Maybe he's just frustrated because he is learning impatience?

Yes! Especially during feedings at night which is frustrating bc I was her to eat faster so I can go back to sleep.

[kartish]

Dec 28, 2015 16:21:52 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

Does anyone else notice a slower letdown when nursing? Seems like some days DS gets frustrated and I have to help letdown along. It's not all the time, but I've never had to do this before the last 2-3 weeks or so. Maybe he's just frustrated because he is learning impatience?

I have noticed this lately, especially since V is lately not very interested in nursing if it takes more than a second for daytime nursing.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? 10 months and three weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping

Solids? Yes, probably way too much junk over the holidays, but when everyone wants to hold him and oh it was only a tiny piece of chocolate...times a million

If you're thinking about weaning from the pump, what's your plan? I dropped to two sessions a couple of weeks ago. I planned to keep that up until February, but then not sure how to proceed. One pump for a while? I really don't want to pump past a year at all, but not sure how not pumping will affect nursing on demand.
If you're thinking about weaning altogether, what's your plan? I plan on still nursing on demand, but I think V will easily drop daytime nursing. He is so distracted and I have to remind him to nurse these days. If I stop doing that I think he will forgo all but bedtime and MOTN.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in January? Starting with our basement renovation!

[Deleted]

How old is your LO? 9mo 3w?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing. I should pump a little too because I have like 5 bags in the freezer...

Solids? Lately, with all the sickness, she eats less solids and wants to nurse more. Ugh, and she was doing so well.

If you're thinking about weaning altogether, what's your plan?
All my plans fell through when DD got sick. Trying to come up with a new plan. I go back to work January 7 and I really wasn't planing to pump at work so worst case scenario she'll just have to day time wean cold turkey. DH will have a hell of a time taking care of her...

Questions/AW? Nothing, I'm just sooo over DDs back-to-back colds and sore throats!

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in January?
Well I go back to work, so that's both scary and exciting. And DH is taking over at home so I'm kinda looking forward to him getting more time with DD and to see how he copes with managing the home (is my evil face showing? )

Edited bc the emojis were screwed up

[agm04]

Dec 28, 2015 14:35:21 GMT -5 hollydfromtn said:

If you're thinking about weaning altogether, what's your plan? No real plan yet, but I'd like to spread out our daytime nursing sessions so that he can spend longer stretches away from me. We've made it 11 months without a bottle which means I haven't been away from him for longer than 2hrs at a time :/. I don't plan on night weaning until he's ready. I love our late night sessions when the entire house is silent and it's just us in the dark.

Questions/AW? I just can't believe we've made it 11 months. I'm so proud of myself and LO for sticking with it. 

I can't believe I'm saying this, but me too!  We've had some really rough nights at our house in the last 2 months, but I find myself disappointed when she stirs and goes back to sleep sometimes - like as much as I hate the lack of sleep, the snuggles are SO SWEET.  I'm with you on the AW too - congrats! - it feels really good to look back on the struggles and know we made it.

[seamonster]

Dec 28, 2015 22:32:21 GMT -5 kartish said:

Dec 28, 2015 16:21:52 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

Does anyone else notice a slower letdown when nursing? Seems like some days DS gets frustrated and I have to help letdown along. It's not all the time, but I've never had to do this before the last 2-3 weeks or so. Maybe he's just frustrated because he is learning impatience?

I have noticed this lately, especially since V is lately not very interested in nursing if it takes more than a second for daytime nursing.

So it's not just me. I have to swap sided multiple times for this like in the very beginning. Or he gets annoyed and squirms away.