3/7 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Solids?

Questions/AW?

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

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How old is your LO?
1 year today! Horay horay!

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing.

Solids? Oh yes. She eats like a horse in the evenings.

Questions/AW?
AW: We have been successful in eliminating MOTN feedings! We are now down to one session per day (bedtime).

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in March?
The light returning and hopefully the weather improves.

[dmorgendorffer]

How old is your LO? 12.5 months

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

Solids? Yes, but DD is starting to become pretty finicky about what she will eat and liking something one day is not a guarantee she will like it the next day. Except for bananas, raspberries and goldfish... she would live on those 3 things alone if we let her.

Questions/AW? How have you been handling the wcm transition? I've been mixing DD's bottles so they are half BM / half WCM and I'm not sure how long I'll keep doing that. I could probably drop my last pumping session and be pump free, but we're still using the BM for half bottles so I'm not sure if we'll have a problem cutting that out.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in March? March Madness. I don't actually enjoy watching basketball at all but I like the competition of putting together my brackets and checking to see how its doing.

[agm04]

How old is your LO? almost 12.5 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? nursing and pumping

Solids? yep, but she's throwing them more and eating them less. knew it was coming eventually. lol.

Questions/AW? who has had success getting the kid to ask nicely for milk? DD's preferred method is lightly slapping my chest and doing this half yell/half laugh. i say, "do you want milk?" and then she does it again, and I say "can you say please? you need to say please." and she sometimes makes this noise that's her version of please, and sometimes just slaps me again.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in March? this work trip (next week) being OVER. i've been dreading it for months!

@alyllyra happy birthday to your LO!

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? a year and 2 weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Still frozen!

Solids? Yep, we've really beefed up giving them, and dropped the midday bottle.

Questions/AW? I can't think of anything.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in March? Birthday! My husband's is the 18th and mine is the 29th.

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? 13 months

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

Solids? Loves all athe food

Questions/AW? So DH is all about starting to wean LO. Which okay fine, I am too but not yet bc she's not ready. She loves her milk, she's small for her age and just adjusted to daycare. So now that she's been having these odd wakeups DH says oh just nurse her again. Needless to say I didn't waste any time pointing out the irony here.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in March? Ummm two days off work.

[agm04]

mishka29 haha they have all the answers until it's the MOTN and they might have to get out of bed.

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 12.5 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and wcm at daycare

Solids? 3 meals and 1-2 snacks. His evening snack is like a meal. Today was 4 mini rice cakes in the car and then a whole banana and some cheese at home.

Questions/AW?agm04 I don't know how to get them to ask nicely. DS paws and screams at me if he's really thirsty or open mouth kisses my shoulder while saying "ba-ba-ba" when he wants some

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in March? Mother's Day was yesterday. Other than that St Patrick's Day.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? 13 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing and attempting milk in cups

Solids? Yes, but he has been a finicky eater lately

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in March? I'm hoping to get a few days of snowboarding in before the end of the season, hopefully bring some friends up with me too.

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - 1 year + 2 days

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? - nursing.

Solids? - 3 meals, a snack some days.

Questions/AW? - it's a little surreal we made it a year, even though we didn't have any majors problems. It's hella surreal that I've nursed this kid a year and he's had probably less than 15 bottles.

GTKY: what's something you're looking forward to in March? - babywearing meeting on Saturday! And St Patrick's Day is mine & DH's fourth wedding anniversary.

[lilyelayne]

agm04 DS signs milk. Occasionally he'll pull at the neckline of my shirt or crawl over to me just whining like crazy, but not too much of that any more, he usually just comes over and signs. Sometimes he asks "up!" and once I pick him up, he signs. If he pulls at my shirt I sit him away from my chest and ask if he wants milk (I also sign it). If he's whining at my feet I tell him to use his words. If he doesn't sign but calms down, I'll ask if he wants milk.
We call it "mik mik." I've only heard him say it once, and that was this weekend. Anyone else have a particular phrase/word for nursing?

I notice if he's impatient while we're assuming the position, I'll often say "hang on, you've got to let me take my clothes off!" I should probably stop that before he's repeating it haha.

[seamonster]

mumomma13 Happy birthday to your LO!

I have a mini-rant: now that I've stopped pumping, I've had spotting for 2 or 3 days every 2 weeks since the end of January. I'm on the minipill and was enjoying my period free and not pregnant lifestyle.

Also DS has his second case of pinkeye in a month. I did breastmilk in the eye while we try to get a doctor appointment where I'm sure they'll tell me it's viral and related to his cold and runny nose since we just got off antibiotics 2 weeks ago.

[agm04]

seamonster so lame, i'm sorry. none of that is any fun!

mumomma13 happy birthday to the babe!

lilyelayne i kept meaning to teach DD signs, but it didn't happen. i wonder if it's too late to start. DH loves to say super inappropriate things like "tell mommy to whip one of those tits out and give you milk!" there's one i don't want her yelling in target...

[dmorgendorffer]

lilyelayne my anniversary is on March 15th and it didn't even occur to me as something I'm looking forward to, I had a little moment of guilt about that after reading yours. I really dropped the ball on DH's Bday present this year so I guess I should come up with something good for our anniversary.

agm04 lots of food throwing going on over here too. I'd love for DD to learn to sign and I've tried teaching her "All done" but usually she indicates she is done eating by starting to throw her food. Last weekend I gave her a little bowl of puffs for a snack and she wanted goldfish instead, she smacked the little bowl so hard it flew all the way over to the wall.

[lilyelayne]

Mar 8, 2016 9:16:30 GMT -5 mumomma13 said:

Is anyone "day-weaning" and still nursing first thing in the mornings and before bed? I think that's my current goal, but I feel guilty for it for some reason.

Only nursing in the AM & PM is a common routine for extended BF I think @alyllyra & mishka29 already did this, if I'm not mistaken, or are y'all still nursing on demand on weekends (or days you're home)?

I feel like the huge focus on feeding our kids and especially making sure that milk is the main source of calories for a year makes for a lot of guilt opportunity when they shift to solid food or non-infant-milk (BM or formula).

Remember that it's a nursing relationship - you're both in it, you're both participating, you both have needs. It's okay to take your side into account too.

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Mar 8, 2016 9:32:14 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

Remember that it's a nursing relationship - you're both in it, you're both participating, you both have needs. It's okay to take your side into account too.

Well said!

[dmorgendorffer]

mumomma13 I am! I've only been pumping once a day for the past week and I plan to be completely finished by the end of this week. I've been nursing her when we are together (so first thing in the morning and usually twice in evenings, plus whenever she wants to on the weekends) but I think I am going to start offering her wcm bottles during the day on the weekends too.

I also feel weird and a little guilty about stopping pumping and just offering wcm, like in the back of my head thinking its better for her if I just keep doing it, but really wcm is fine and she can still nurse when she wants to so really no reason for any guilt about it.

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Mar 8, 2016 9:16:30 GMT -5 mumomma13 said:

Is anyone "day-weaning" and still nursing first thing in the mornings and before bed? I think that's my current goal, but I feel guilty for it for some reason.

Yes, we have day-weaned. We only nurse once a day now, right before bed.
We did it because I was going back to work and didn't want to pump, and DD wasn't that interested in nursing during the day anyway. It's been a major relief to not have to worry about her needs during the day.

Once I decided to wean we began by upping her solids intake, trying to offer her something at regular intervals (every 2 hours at least) so that she wouldn't go hungry and want to nurse because of that. In the beginning she was fine in the mornings and through lunch, but got fussy at around 4pm. For the first 2-3 days I would nurse her when she got fussy, then we started distracting her instead with snacks, toys, books or something (depending on her mood) to take her mind of it. I think it was around 1-1 1/2 weeks before she stopped fussing during the day. For a while, she increased night time nursing, but I'm not sure if that was just because we stopped during the day or because of a growth spurt.


If you feel like you're ready I don't think it's anything to be guilty about. Just be prepared that once you start you have to be consistent, 'cause your supply might not get back to it's former state if you drop nursing sessions for a longer period of time.

[seamonster]

Mar 8, 2016 9:16:30 GMT -5 mumomma13 said:

Is anyone "day-weaning" and still nursing first thing in the mornings and before bed? I think that's my current goal, but I feel guilty for it for some reason.

No reason to feel guilty. It's common and if it works for you, then do it. Only do what both of you are comfortable with anddon't worry that you're cheating your baby or anything.

We'll switch to day weaning in a few months and days at home will be like days at daycare where he gets wcm during the day. We have to night wean first.

[seamonster]

Mar 8, 2016 9:25:33 GMT -5 dmorgendorffer said:

agm04 lots of food throwing going on over here too. I'd love for DD to learn to sign and I've tried teaching her "All done" but usually she indicates she is done eating by starting to throw her food. Last weekend I gave her a little bowl of puffs for a snack and she wanted goldfish instead, she smacked the little bowl so hard it flew all the way over to the wall.

Food throwing or if we're feeding him, he'll take the food out of his mouth. Or he'll sweetly offer us what he doesn't want to eat. We all know how much moms love partially chewed bananas.

[agm04]

Mar 8, 2016 9:25:33 GMT -5 dmorgendorffer said:

lilyelayne my anniversary is on March 15th and it didn't even occur to me as something I'm looking forward to, I had a little moment of guilt about that after reading yours. I really dropped the ball on DH's Bday present this year so I guess I should come up with something good for our anniversary.

agm04 lots of food throwing going on over here too. I'd love for DD to learn to sign and I've tried teaching her "All done" but usually she indicates she is done eating by starting to throw her food. Last weekend I gave her a little bowl of puffs for a snack and she wanted goldfish instead, she smacked the little bowl so hard it flew all the way over to the wall.

this made me lol

[agm04]

Polling you guys. I'm planning to pump morning and night while I'm out of town next week. The hotel doesn't have a freezer for my room, but said I may be able to use their freezer to store milk; I'll have to ask when I'm there. There's a mini fridge in my room, and I can try using the top freezer portion, but I doubt it will get cold enough to fully freeze. What would you do?

1) make arrangements to donate it to someone now (have to used human milk 4 human babies, I don't qualify for any of the milk banks for various reasons)
2) plan to freeze it and bring it home and try to find someone who needs it if I can't get it frozen
3) plan to bring it home even if I can't fully freeze it

I think DD will go through at least half of what I have frozen while I'm gone, but it's not like I NEED a freezer stash at this point. Thoughts?

[lilyelayne]

seamonster DS is always trying to share food he's taken out of his mouth. Ugh.

agm04 I've found hotel fridges usually can get cold enough to partially freeze drinks, so it may be if you transfer the milk in 2-3oz portions into bags (assuming this is what you usually do) and lay them flat in the back, they'll probably freeze. Just turn the fridge to as cold as it goes when you check in. Also if they are in the freezer section should be okay? Not all hotel fridges have freezer sections though. If you're giving to the hotel freezer, I'd put those bags in a gallon ziplock very well labeled.

Or you can find someone locally in HM4HB and either let your freezer stash take the hit or pump a few days when you get home to replenish.

Though it's terrifying, I'd probably do HM4HB and not have to deal with freezing / transport. When do you think you'd use your freezer stash again? If LO gets just WCM while you're away (even for the weekend) I wonder if she would go back to nursing when you got home... I would think so? I've been pondering the same thing, thinking of donating my whole freezer stash if we intro WCM and he likes it. But I have a different situation as we exclusively nurse save for a handful of days in the past year.

[agm04]

lilyelayne I'm going out of town for a weekend in May. If I step back and think about it, I feel so lucky to even have a freezer stash, and I certainly didn't expect to still be using it, so maybe HM4HB is the answer. Will keep chewing on it.

[mishka29]

Mar 8, 2016 9:32:14 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

Mar 8, 2016 9:16:30 GMT -5 mumomma13 said:

Is anyone "day-weaning" and still nursing first thing in the mornings and before bed? I think that's my current goal, but I feel guilty for it for some reason.

Only nursing in the AM & PM is a common routine for extended BF I think @alyllyra & mishka29 already did this, if I'm not mistaken, or are y'all still nursing on demand on weekends (or days you're home)?

I feel like the huge focus on feeding our kids and especially making sure that milk is the main source of calories for a year makes for a lot of guilt opportunity when they shift to solid food or non-infant-milk (BM or formula).

Remember that it's a nursing relationship - you're both in it, you're both participating, you both have needs. It's okay to take your side into account too.

I try not to add extra feedings since we are trying to move away from nursing or at least thinking about it. But.... If she only has a short nap and won't go back she's really really angry and some milk really helps the situation.

[seamonster]

agm04 The freezer section of a mini fridge will get cold enough to freeze your milk. I froze bags of milk last week in the mini fridge at work.

I'd let your freezer stash take the hit. It's kind of the point of having one and you'll be able to restock a bit going home if you can get it through security or are going to check your freezer bag.

HM4HB is a good option too.

[agm04]

seamonster sweet, thanks! maybe i'll do half and half then.