3/14 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?

Solids?

What's something about BF your toddler that's made you smile in the last couple weeks?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite and least favorite toy LO plays with?

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? One year, 3 weeks

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Still chuggin' that frozen goodness!

Solids? Yep, but it pisses me off how much hidden dairy there is in things. Poor little dude ends up with mucousy poopsplosions when we miss something.

What's something about BF your toddler that's made you smile in the last couple weeks? Not BFing, but I love that we're still going strong with our frozen stash. My boobs did well...

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite and least favorite toy LO plays with? He has a giant green ball that he LOVES. Cheapest toy he got for his birthday, but the one he plays with the most. I hate most of the VTech toys, mostly because their songs rarely rhyme and that kills me. I hate that family thinks toys have to have lights/sound.

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? 13 + months

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

Solids? Yuppers

What's something about BF your toddler that's made you smile in the last couple weeks? Hmm I know there is something but I'm distracted by my next question...

Questions/AW? How do I stop BFing my toddler?! This kid loves her boobie times. She's very aggressive about it as well. She eats very quickly but then just wants to suck for comfort for an insane amount of time. Then if she pops off, you think she's done, but no. She screams like a nutter until she gets the nipple back. How am I supposed to wean this kid?!?

GTKY: what's your favorite and least favorite toy LO plays with? This weekend she found the booze cupboard. We had to relocate all the glass bottles but she's been walking around with the plastic little mini ones lol.

[dmorgendorffer]

How old is your LO? Almost 13 months. Guess I should take her 12 month picture!

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? nursing and I think Friday may have been the last time pumping. Might bring the manual pump with us on our trip this weekend just in case.

Solids? Mostly fruit. Trying to find other recipes for dinners that we can all enjoy and she will actually eat.

What's something about BF your toddler that's made you smile in the last couple weeks? She likes to give me high fives while she's eating, and I still enjoy the cuddles when she falls asleep nursing.

Questions/AW? I did not bring the pump to work with me today!!! We'll see how this goes....

GTKY: what's your favorite and least favorite toy LO plays with? She got this my first purse for Christmas, and last night she actually sat with me on the couch for close to an hour, just taking everything in and out and playing with each thing, it was nice to have a toy that occupied her in one place and wasn't super noisy. My least favorite is our shoes, she is obsessed with carrying our dirty shoes around the house.

[lilyelayne]

danitaec I am crazy impressed that you still have frozen BM! I was bragging about you to a friend this weekend!

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[kartish]

How old is your LO? 13 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing at bedtime and MOTN. We may be done with daytime sessions.

Solids? Yes, but it's hit or miss these days what he'll eat and what goes on the floor.

What's something about BF your toddler that's made you smile in the last couple weeks? I laugh at the way he gets excited for his bedtime boob.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's your favorite and least favorite toy LO plays with? My favorite is the blocks I made him; I love watching him play and learn trying to stack them. My least favorite is a green car that sings "Number, when you learn number, then you can count!" No stupid car, it is numbers. If you learn grammar then you may sing songs to my child. Off switch!

[Deleted]

How old is your LO?
1 year and 1 week

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing?
Nursing

Solids?
Yes. We've had two days where she's wanted nothing but peas, yoghurt and grapes, but I thinks she's back to her old eating habits today.

What's something about BF your toddler that's made you smile in the last couple weeks?
The occations when she falls asleep nursing are still so sweet. It's bad that I have to wake her up to brush her teeth though

Questions/AW?
Nothing at the mo'.

GTKY: what's your favorite and least favorite toy LO plays with?
I like most of her stuff, but anything that keeps her engaged for a while is great! Building blocks and books are the ones that can keep her busy a while.
Least favorite is probably a variant of the brio dachhund consisting of multiple pieces that always falls apart when she picks it up. I've tried putting it aside but she always digs it out again.

[lilyelayne]

mishka29 do you want to wean altogether? Do you want to set boundaries? Are you just worried that she'll want to nurse til she's 18?

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?- 12mo + 1 week

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? - nursing. Hand expressing (since I'm yet again not responding to the pump after a hiatus) in the mornings to donate to my BFF's daughter.

Solids? - 3 meals, 1 snack.

What's something about BF your toddler that's made you smile in the last couple weeks? - I love how enthusiastically he signs for milk, especially when he wakes in the morning. We also practice mouth, nose, eyes, hair while he nurses and he's getting very good at knowing what goes where.

GTKY: what's your favorite and least favorite toy LO plays with? -favorite are probably his blocks because he gets so excited when he stacks three. Or watching him read books never gets old. Least favorite is my phone. Stop stealing it, kiddo!

Honorable mention both ways to the v tech catch me kitty he received for his birthday. It has sensors like a roomba! So it can run around the room and mostly not get stuck. Also it waits for him to get close and then runs away, which is pretty cute.

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 13 months

Are you nursing, pumping, supplementing? Nursing. He gets a 5oz bottle of wcm at daycare (because he likes to play with the sippy cup of milk)

Solids? Eats everything. His lunch and dinner times are offset from ours due to sleep schedules and I've had trouble having meals ready for him and have been resorting to packets on the weekend.

What's something about BF your toddler that's made you smile in the last couple weeks? It just makes him so happy. And we get extra cuddle and chat sessions.

Questions/AW? Two and they're related. 1) Anyone night weaning? I'm giving him another month to night wean on his own, but I feel guilty about it. 2)Non-nursing soothing tips (maybe I should make a thread for this one)

GTKY: what's your favorite and least favorite toy LO plays with? I like playing with his wooden blocks. He likes to knock them down. He doesn't stack blocks. And his alphabet alligator he feeds letters and blocks to.

I despise this Fisher Price robot ILs got him. It's so annoying and I wanted to return it, but H insisted on keeping it. The voice is so grating.

[mishka29]

Mar 15, 2016 11:16:42 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

mishka29 do you want to wean altogether? Do you want to set boundaries? Are you just worried that she'll want to nurse til she's 18?

I want to wean all together. We are just down to the am and pm feeds. But she's so cranky when she wakes up I can't see anyway around not feeding her. We would cut out the am feed first.

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Mar 16, 2016 7:12:34 GMT -5 mishka29 said:

Mar 15, 2016 11:16:42 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

mishka29 do you want to wean altogether? Do you want to set boundaries? Are you just worried that she'll want to nurse til she's 18?

I want to wean all together. We are just down to the am and pm feeds. But she's so cranky when she wakes up I can't see anyway around not feeding her. We would cut out the am feed first.

When we cut out feedings I would always had something ready to distract her when she started fussing: snack/pouch, sippy cup, shiny toy, paci or (in the worst cases) my phone. But this was mostly during the day though...
In the mornings we would try to give her breakfast as soon as she woke up, but DD has never been that hungry in the morning so there was never any panic. Maybe prep breakfast the night before so you can give it to her as soon as she wakes up? Or have a food pouch or sippy ready next to her bed to give directly?
I don't know if any of this helps, just throwing stuff out there

[lilyelayne]

Mar 16, 2016 7:12:34 GMT -5 mishka29 said:

Mar 15, 2016 11:16:42 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

mishka29 do you want to wean altogether? Do you want to set boundaries? Are you just worried that she'll want to nurse til she's 18?

I want to wean all together. We are just down to the am and pm feeds. But she's so cranky when she wakes up I can't see anyway around not feeding her. We would cut out the am feed first.

@alyllyra had good tips. Can you send your H in first thing in the morning? He can get her up and to the table and start breakfast before she ever sees you. Or if that doesn't work maybe he can cuddle her with a cup of milk or some food and then move to the table, if needing cuddles is a big part of her morning fussiness. Hopefully not too many mornings of that before she realizes no more nursing when she wakes & y'all can be more flexible again.

[mishka29]

Great tips ladies, thank you!

With DD1 it was so easy. She happily took a cup of milk. LO not so much.

[seamonster]

Mar 16, 2016 9:03:44 GMT -5 mishka29 said:

Great tips ladies, thank you!

With DD1 it was so easy. She happily took a cup of milk. LO not so much.

Would she do a bottle of milk instead of the cup? You'd have to wean off the cup later, but that might be easier.

[mishka29]

Mar 16, 2016 12:36:12 GMT -5 seamonster said:

Mar 16, 2016 9:03:44 GMT -5 mishka29 said:

Great tips ladies, thank you!

With DD1 it was so easy. She happily took a cup of milk. LO not so much.

Would she do a bottle of milk instead of the cup? You'd have to wean off the cup later, but that might be easier.

She has never drank from a bottle. Totally refuses. It has made it a long 13 months bc of that.

[maryxc1]

Mar 16, 2016 21:45:46 GMT -5 mishka29 said:

Mar 16, 2016 12:36:12 GMT -5 seamonster said:

Would she do a bottle of milk instead of the cup? You'd have to wean off the cup later, but that might be easier.

She has never drank from a bottle. Totally refuses. It has made it a long 13 months bc of that.

No bottles here either, with either kid. I feel your pain!