1/4 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

The first MMM of the new year! As we approach our babies' birthdays, I just wanted to say how thankful I am for all of you and how inspiring y'all are for doing the breast milk commitment for so long.

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Solids?

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits?
Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you have any travel planned in 2016? If you could plan any one trip/vacation, where would you go and who would come with you?

[kaydee0402]

How old is your LO? 10 months, three days.

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

Solids? All the solids.

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits? YES, that witch. I had horrible cramping this morning and my face is broken out. She's going to rear her ugly head this week.

Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans? Yep. But I was planning on weaning at a year anyway.

Questions/AW? DS loves to nurse in crazy positions now. His favorite is when both boobs are out and he just goes back and forth between the two until he's done. My husbandman refers to it as the buffet :/

GTKY: do you have any travel planned in 2016? If you could plan any one trip/vacation, where would you go and who would come with you? My youngest sister is graduating and my mom is turning 60 in May, so we're going to do something as a family...not sure what yet. Also, DS and I are going to Disney in February for my race and a weekend at my parents

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? 10 months and change

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just frozen

Solids? Yep, allllmost up to 3 a day regularly, although weekends get whacky. Tried almond milk yogurt and coconut milk yogurt, both of which are a hit. And also peanut butter, which I mixed in the yogurt one day. The upside of having to do allergy testing is we found out he's not allergic to nuts, soy, and whatever else there was, just egg and dairy.

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits? I had one last month, and she's due this weekend.
Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans? I think we'll try in the summer, but since I'm done with the EPing that won't matter.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you have any travel planned in 2016? If you could plan any one trip/vacation, where would you go and who would come with you? We didn't go anywhere this past year, so I'm itching to travel! Husband and I are going to Universal Studios with my community band to play a concert, so that'll be little man's first sleepover with the grands. This summer I'd like to go back to Sanibel; that's our go-to vacation spot, but we've missed the past two summers. If I could go anywhere I'd like to do the Mediterranean; I'd take the husband and baby.

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? 11 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Bfing. Still need to think about this day weaning thing...

Solids? Eating all the food

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits? Ugh yes

Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans? DH won't shut up about wanting to get a vasectomy

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you have any travel planned in 2016? If you could plan any one trip/vacation, where would you go and who would come with you?

Eta: forgot my travel plans. Maybe a week away in the fall to a resort!

[dmorgendorffer]

How old is your LO? 10 Months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and Pumping

Solids? Yes, 3x a day and transitioning away from baby food to mostly table foods. She loves yogurt but otherwise she has no interest in being spoon fed anymore.

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits? Unfortunately, yes.
Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans? Not yet. DH did bring up wanting another baby but with starting a new job it will be at least 4-6 months before we even consider TTC

Questions/AW? With the new job I wasn't sure if I would continue pumping or try to just nurse when we are together and see how far my freezer stash would get us but then I realized it was silly to make it so far and give up before we hit the 1 year mark. My new pumping room is not nearly as nice as the one at my old company - its basically a storage closet with a door and it doesn't have a mini-fridge so I have to keep my milk in the communal fridge but we'll keep going for at least 2 more months!

GTKY: do you have any travel planned in 2016? If you could plan any one trip/vacation, where would you go and who would come with you? Nothing planned yet. My SIL is due in April so we'll probably need to travel down to SC for the baby shower and to meet the new family member. If we could go anywhere I think I'd like to do some kind of relaxing beachy trip with just DH and DD.

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - he'll be 10 months tomorrow!

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? - nursing. Pumping 1-2x a day, but I don't think I'll have enough milk for the whole weekend away. I just don't respond very well to the pump.

Solids? - 3x a day. He's been chowing down at meals, so I may add a snack in soon.

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits? - still no AF over here! Crazy!

Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans? - no. Since DH just wants one more, we probably won't TTC until DS's second birthday. Even if he's still nursing I imagine my cycle will have returned & regulated by then.

Questions/AW? - I told DH we may try night weaning after DS turns one, if he hasn't handled it himself by then. We'll see.

GTKY: do you have any travel planned in 2016? If you could plan any one trip/vacation, where would you go and who would come with you? - going to California in Feb. Taking my (and DS's and my nephews') first cruise in May! Likely going to Canada sometime in the spring but it's not for sure. We'll go to Gulf Shores, AL at least twice, hoping for 4x this year.


I would love a trip with my BFFs. We haven't had any travel together in 3 years

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 10.5 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just nursing. Did use formula for the babysitter and to make LO cereal since I didn't bring the pump.

Solids? 3 meals and 1 snack. Mostly spoon fed table foods or pureed fruit (he loves applesauce and yogurt). He's started spitting out a lot of foods and using his hand to pull things out of his mouth.
Please don't judge my baby's food covered clothes. He rips off all bibs.

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits? Not yet, but probably due to the minipill. Expect AF this month because I forgot a second pack of pills and will miss a week.
Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans? No. I'd like to TTC or at least NTTNGP in May. H is on the fence. Plan to be done by May or June for myself.

Questions/AW? None now

GTKY: do you have any travel planned in 2016? If you could plan any one trip/vacation, where would you go and who would come with you? Lots of trips planned.

Don't know on the second. I travel a lot, but it'd be nice to travel with friends.

[krispy83]

How old is your LO? 11 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing when together, pumping when I'm at work.

Solids? Pretty much everything. Trying to get her to eat a bit more at dinner, otherwise she's up several times to nurse during the night which is exhausting.

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits? Nope, but I'm also on the mini-pill.

Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans? No, we are done.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you have any travel planned in 2016? If you could plan any one trip/vacation, where would you go and who would come with you? Yes! We're going to Salt Lake City in March (DH is going for a conference and we've never been so the kids and I are tagging along), Ohio in June (to visit DH's family) and Disneyland at some point during the holiday season (though we're only 90 min away so I don't know that it really counts as travel). We were hoping to squeeze a trip to NY in there, but my cousin just got engaged and he lives there so we'll probably wait until their wedding.

[agm04]

How old is your LO? 10.5 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing together, pumping at work.

Solids? 3x a day. Her favorites seem to be black olives (ew) and frozen cherries (yum).

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits? No AF yet.

Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans? Nope. I really want to start trying again in July, but I don't think I'd wean DD if that seemed to be inhibiting things (not that there's anything wrong with doing that).

Questions/AW? I have to be away from DD for a few days (Sunday night - Friday afternoon) in March. She'll be about 13 months. I'm not planning to wean her. Any experienced BF moms out there who can reassure me that the time away won't be the nail in the coffin for whatever BF we're still doing?

GTKY: girls' trip in May for my neighbor's bday. she has a baby 6 weeks older than DD, so we both need it! We're also talking about a family trip to Cayman in the spring, but not sure if we can swing it with work schedules. if I could go anywhere, I think a nice long trip to Italy with DH.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? 11 months this week

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and pumping

Solids? Yes, trying to branch out more and more

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits? Yes

Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans? Not really, I guess we are NTNP since I'm not on BC, but no real plans.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you have any travel planned in 2016? If you could plan any one trip/vacation, where would you go and who would come with you? Plans to visit family in Texas and I hope to also visit family in Wisconsin. And most likely will go up to Sun Valley in the spring. And that's it.

If I could plan a trip without restrictions, I would totally take one of those around the world cruises, with all my family.

[mishka29]

badw0lf, we are weaning for daycare at some point (starts monday). I'm providing a straw cup that LO uses and they will provide the milk. I would check with your place and see if they provide wcm.

[seamonster]

Jan 6, 2016 8:06:43 GMT -5 mishka29 said:

badw0lf, we are weaning for daycare at some point (starts monday). I'm providing a straw cup that LO uses and they will provide the milk. I would check with your place and see if they provide wcm.

Once he hits a year, they'll put WCM in his sippy cup unless I send in bottles. We may transition using bottles and a mixture of WCM and my milk or formula if he's not taking to WCM right away. Also need to get him to stop ripping off bibs and to stop throwing his cup. Otherwise he may go through his entire wardrobe in one day.

[maryxc1]

Jan 4, 2016 11:17:48 GMT -5 danitaec said:

How old is your LO? 10 months and change

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Just frozen

Solids? Yep, allllmost up to 3 a day regularly, although weekends get whacky. Tried almond milk yogurt and coconut milk yogurt, both of which are a hit. And also peanut butter, which I mixed in the yogurt one day. The upside of having to do allergy testing is we found out he's not allergic to nuts, soy, and whatever else there was, just egg and dairy.

Is AF back to her regularly scheduled visits? I had one last month, and she's due this weekend.
Do you have TTC plans that affect your BF plans? I think we'll try in the summer, but since I'm done with the EPing that won't matter.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you have any travel planned in 2016? If you could plan any one trip/vacation, where would you go and who would come with you? We didn't go anywhere this past year, so I'm itching to travel! Husband and I are going to Universal Studios with my community band to play a concert, so that'll be little man's first sleepover with the grands. This summer I'd like to go back to Sanibel; that's our go-to vacation spot, but we've missed the past two summers. If I could go anywhere I'd like to do the Mediterranean; I'd take the husband and baby.

We had to do allergy testing as well, but they just tested the things she had eaten and reacted to. He said I had to try feeding the other things before they did the skin test. I wish they had done them all so I don't have to panic every time I introduce a new food.