2/15 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

How many times a day does LO nurse or get a bottle? How much?

Solids?

Weaning (from pump or altogether): how's it going?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: how do you feel about making jewelry out of breast milk? (You can google - it's a thing.)

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 1 year today!

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and giving formula at daycare. Will transition to wcm at daycare and nursing at home this week as we are almost out of formula

How many times a day does LO nurse or get a bottle? How much? Nurses 5 times during the day and once at night. Daycare days is 2 or 3 sessions and once at night with 2 bottles

Solids? 3 meals and 1-2 snacks. He eats everything and wants to practice with the spoon

Weaning (from pump or altogether): how's it going? I was down to one pump a day and just quit. I may pump once or twice this week because I have a 1oz bottle in the freezer that needs more milk to be useful. I won't start weaning except for night weaning (I won't do until 13 or 14 months) until May or June.

Questions/AW? How are other ladies making the transition to wcm at daycare or home? How much are you giving over the day?

GTKY: how do you feel about making jewelry out of breast milk? (You can google - it's a thing.) The pieces I've seen are lovely, but I would think someone was weird for wearing it. Like vial of blood weird. I just don't want to know.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? A year and a week

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing, quit pumping as of Saturday!

How many times a day does LO nurse or get a bottle? How much? V has been nursing only about once or twice during the day, at bedtime and once or twice at night. When I'm not there, he gets a sippy cup of BM as often as he will drink it, which is only about 3 oz or less a day. Not sure how to get him to drink more milk, he won't take a bottle at all anymore, and the type of sippy has no impact.

Solids? Yes all the solids. He tried shellfish on Valentines

Weaning (from pump or altogether): how's it going? Pump is done. I was down to twice a day, went to one per day for a week and then I was done, my boobs are a little uncomfortable but they are adjusting.

Questions/AW? If V doesn't stop biting me, we may be done sooner than I had hoped. But he only bites during the day never at night. I don't know what to do. He bites because he doesn't want to nurse, he bites if the milk takes a minute, he bites when he's done. Then he'll pop back on just to bite again and laughs.

GTKY: how do you feel about making jewelry out of breast milk? (You can google - it's a thing.) Not something I'd do, but wouldn't question if someone did.

[seamonster]

Feb 15, 2016 14:00:19 GMT -5 badw0lf said:

He begs like a dog whenever I am snacking so it helps me quit snacking during the day.

DS does the same thing even if he's not hungry and will just throw it on the floor. I should take it as incentive to cut down on snacks instead of eating my snacks in hiding. I give in easily to baby screams.

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How old is your LO? 11 m 1w

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing only.

How many times a day does LO nurse or get a bottle? How much?
2 times: Once before bedtime and one time MOTN. I wouldn't mind dropping the MOTN session though...

Solids? All the solids! 3 large meals per day + 3 snacks that are almost as large.

Weaning (from pump or altogether): how's it going?
We weaned from day time nursing about a month ago since I was going back to work and didn't want to pump. DD took it well, it was only about 2-3 days until she stopped pulling at my shirt during the day and seemed content with solids.
Still working on MOTN feeds though. I'd like to stop since it's a pain to get up every single night when I have to work the next day, but DD doesn't seem content without nursing so we'll see how it goes in the next few weeks.
Bed time nursing can stay though, I love those baby snuggles!

Questions/AW? I've seen this a lot but can only make out part if it: what does WCM stand for?

GTKY: how do you feel about making jewelry out of breast milk? (You can google - it's a thing.)
I thought it was pretty weird at first, but as we get closer and closer to finishing this BF adventure I'm getting a bit sentimental and now I totally want something to remember it by!

[kartish]

@alyllyra Whole Cow's Milk, I think

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kartish Thanks! I thought CM was cow's milk but I couldn't figure out the "W"

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? One year on Saturday!

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Still going with our frozen stash

How many times a day does LO nurse or get a bottle? How much? He gets three 5-oz bottles a day. We could probably cut one out.

Solids? Yep, still no dairy or egg, but everything else!

Weaning (from pump or altogether): how's it going? My last pump was November 23rd. I haven't missed that thing!

Questions/AW?

GTKY: how do you feel about making jewelry out of breast milk? (You can google - it's a thing.) I have a necklace on order. It's a little pearl in the center of a silver ring, stamped "and she loved a little boy very much". I worked really hard being an EPer, and I want to commemorate it.

[agm04]

How old is your LO? 11.5 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? nursing and pumping

How many times a day does LO nurse or get a bottle? How much? when I'm at work, she usually has 2 bottles, but she tends to graze. Instead of crushing a 5 oz bottle like she used to, she'll take a couple ounces, then want it back in an hour to finish. When I'm home with her, she nurses at wake up, maybe 3-4 times during the day, and at bed time. Sometimes 1-2x overnight.

Solids? 3 meals, one snack usually.

Weaning (from pump or altogether): how's it going? not weaning yet.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: how do you feel about making jewelry out of breast milk? (You can google - it's a thing.) Meh, not for me. But I really hate stuff. My mom is kind of a pack rat, and I've moved around so much and lived in enough tiny NYC apartments that I'd rather cling to memories than have a keepsake.

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? 11mo + 1.5week

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? - nursing

How many times a day does LO nurse or get a bottle? How much? - I don't keep up with it. I think 5x during the day and 2x at night is fairly typical. He's gotten better at asking so I don't offer too much any more.

Solids? - 3x a day, sometimes snacks. He's had no appetite for solids the last few days since he's been sick.

Not weaning.

GTKY: how do you feel about making jewelry out of breast milk? - who came up with this idea? How does it work? I've been considering getting a ring or a bracelet. I like the idea of having a memento, but I doubt I'd tell anyone what it was unless they specifically asked.

[lilyelayne]

kartish sorry you're dealing with biting. DS did that a few months ago. For biting when he didn't want to nurse, I learned to offer and if he didn't immediately & enthusiatically accept, I'd put it away. For biting when he was done, I'd watch and unlatch him when he was slowing down, sign & say "all done," and put him down.

The laughing is probably because you react? Maybe putting him down and ignoring him when he bites no matter what the reason could work?

[kartish]

lilyelayne I try not to react and say firmly ouch that hurts, please don't bite momma, but I still have the initial jerk and that's what he laughs at.

I have tried watching for signs and avoid it, but it's gotten so I hesitate to nurse. I'm just hoping he'll tire of it quickly.

[seamonster]

Feb 16, 2016 16:46:26 GMT -5 kartish said:

lilyelayne I try not to react and say firmly ouch that hurts, please don't bite momma, but I still have the initial jerk and that's what he laughs at.

I have tried watching for signs and avoid it, but it's gotten so I hesitate to nurse. I'm just hoping he'll tire of it quickly.

I cover up and tell him "no biting. Biting hurts mommy." I give him another chance or two and then end the nursing session if he keeps it up.

[seamonster]

WCM introduction in a sippy went great. He likes it. So we're doing a morning bottle of formula until it runs out and a afternoon cup of wcm. He doesn't always demand the morning bottle so I told them just to follow his cues.

Funny that he'll nurse at 6 am at home and maybe want a bottle around 10 or might wait until 1pm. At home he wants to nurse every 3 hours even though I feed him the same number of meals at home and he gets a morning snack at home. I think easy access and less excitement at home is part of it.