2/29 Mommy Milk Leap Day

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk?

Solids?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you?

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? A year and a week

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Still using that frozen goodness

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk? It's all been bottles, but now we're trying to give it to him in the sippy. It can apparently only be the Dr. Brown's though; he pushes away all others.

Solids? Yep!

Questions/AW? Need some portable protein ideas, ladies. Got any go-tos?

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you? Well normally I would say my daffodils blooming, but they did that at the end of January, so...

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 12.5 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing. Pumping this week because we have a sitter Saturday night. Otherwise wcm when we're apart.

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk? Weaned away from bottles to wcm in a sippy. I've given daycare an empty bottle they can use for wcm when he wants it and it's nap time because he likes to make his cup drip on the floor then.

Solids? 3 meals and 1-2 snacks a day. Letting him practice feeding himself with a spoon. So messy.

Questions/AW? Anyone else still nursing MOTN? Planning to night wean or just let LO self wean? My current plan is to let him self wean, but no indication that'll happen anytime soon.

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you? Not really. Maybe the leaves coming in on the trees.

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - he'll be one on Saturday

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? - nursing. Otherwise he just gets water in a cup.

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk? - DS stayed with my parents one weekend in January and with my ILs for a day at Valentine's. He reluctantly took a bottle both places. I usually leave it up to the caregiver what they want to try, but DH encourages them to use a bottle.

Solids? - 3x a day. Hasn't been into snacking lately.

Questions/AW? - it's possible DS is dropping down to one night feed! He has also missed a daytime feed a few days this week. This brings our total 24 hour nursing sessions to 5-6 instead of 7-8.

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you? - the azaleas bloom.

[seamonster]

danitaec Cheese sticks, yogurt (you could fill up a refillable pouch if you don't want to mess with little containers), lunch meat, peanut butter sandwiches . ETA hard boiled eggs, hummus packets, and nut or sunflower butter packets

[dmorgendorffer]

How old is your LO? 1 year and 10 days

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing together, still weaning from the pump at work, and she is also getting half BM/half wcm at in bottles at daycare

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk? Yes, 3 bottles a day when I'm away. Not weaning from them yet.

Solids? Lots and lots of solids.

Questions/AW? Nothing this week

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you? Our Daffodils coming up, although I'm worried about them this year because they started to come up way too early. Also the first time it is actually warm enough to drive around with the sunroof open, but DH tends to be impatient and tries to open it when it still too cold.

[lilyelayne]

danitaec for LO or you? How portable? LO is dairy & egg free, IIRC, so what about peanut butter?

seamonster my plan is still to let DS self wean at night. He recently dropped to one feed instead of two (for almost two weeks I think?) which is so nice. I had considered some form of night weaning if MOTN feeds were still crushing me after 1 year, like having DH responsible for all wake ups before 3am, but I've tabled that for now.

[dmorgendorffer]

seamonster still doing MOTN, although DD seems go through phases where she gets into the habit of either having a night feed or not having one so I know she doesn't need it. I was up with her once every night last week, but I was sick this weekend and ended up letting her CIO when she woke up Saturday night and then she sttn last night.

I can't send DH in MOTN, if she doesn't go back to sleep immediately for him he just gets her up and lets her play. I suspect being so terrible at handling MOTN wake ups is his way of not having to ever get up for them.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? A year

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk? Bottles are gone, milk in a cup if he'll take it.

Solids? Yes, 3 times a day

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you? Generally when the willows start greening, or when I start wearing flip flops.

[kartish]

seamonster V has been waking up three times a night after a long stretch of him waking only once a night. I've considered weaning, but I think he is going through a growth spurt now so we'll see if he drops back down to one.

[seamonster]

Feb 29, 2016 10:08:49 GMT -5 kartish said:

seamonster V has been waking up three times a night after a long stretch of him waking only once a night. I've considered weaning, but I think he is going through a growth spurt now so we'll see if he drops back down to one.

Hopefully that's just a growth spurt. He's down to one wake up, but I did end up doing CIO to deal with the inconsistent 2nd one because it was killing me. It's still hard to do that one some nights because over a year of sleep deprivation is catching up with me.

[danitaec]

lilyelayne, for LO, yes. And he is egg and dairy free, which does complicate thugs. I want him to have cheese so badly! He doesn't realize what he's missing, which I guess is good. We do use peanut butter at home, just haven't figured out the on-the-go stuff quite yet.

[lilyelayne]

Feb 29, 2016 11:13:01 GMT -5 danitaec said:

lilyelayne, for LO, yes. And he is egg and dairy free, which does complicate thugs. I want him to have cheese so badly! He doesn't realize what he's missing, which I guess is good. We do use peanut butter at home, just haven't figured out the on-the-go stuff quite yet.

Peanut butter in a small Tupperware with something to dip? Graham cracker, veggie stick, rice cake? Or on a sandwich.

[kaydee0402]

How old is your LO? One tomorrow. Cue the tears!

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Only nursing at bedtime.

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk? No more bottles, just sippy cups.

Solids? All the solids.

Questions/AW? I ditto the question about snacks.

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you? The return of our evening walks! That means that it's finally still light enough when we get home to take a walk through the neighborhood. The ability to shut off our heat for good and open the windows. And of course, finally being able to wear sundresses

[agm04]

How old is your LO? turned 1 last week

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? nursing and pumping

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk? she's still on bottles, at least until we get through my week away for work.

Solids? 3x a day, 1-2 snacks

Questions/AW? i posted a sleep check in. i'm so tired, sleep is all i can think about.

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you? our first outdoor get together? we ended up outside for most of DD's party on saturday. we're in houston, and it's been gorgeous lately!

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danitaec Avocado actually has a surprising amount of protein! DD also loves minced soya "meat", which I fry and then mix with sweet potato or carrots. Also other types of beans, houmus and stuff could be good.

seamonster haha, yes, self feeding is a mess but they love it!

[Deleted]

How old is your LO? Almost a year!

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing 1x a day

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk?
No bottles. If I'm away she just copes.

Solids? Yep.

Questions/AW? We are biting the bullet this week and night weaning! So far it's been OK. She still wakes up about once a night, but goes back to sleep if she gets a little water. FX she's done with that soon!

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you?
Being able to eat lunch outside

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? 13 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? BFing in am and pm

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk? I wish. No bottles for this kiddo.

Solids? Yummy in her tummy

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you? I would say going to the park but we did that on the weekend! Lol and now we are expecting 10-15 cm of snow.

[krispy83]

How old is your LO? 13 months

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

Does LO take bottles while you're away? Are you weaning away from bottles even if you continue to nurse or give pumped milk? We've moved from bottles to sippy cups.

Solids? 3x a day plus a snack

Questions/AW? She's back to nursing once a night! Woohoo! Being up 3x to BF was getting exhausting. Granted, I'm still up with her, but baby steps lol

GTKY: what is something that happens or that you do that means 'ah, Spring is finally here' to you? Well, we don't really have much winter, but I love having the windows open in the morning and evening to get cool fresh air in the house.