3/21 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk?

Solids?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did?

[krispy83]

How old is your LO? Almost 14 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? 5x during the day plus usually at least once during the night

Solids? Yes, though her appetite is so weird - ravenous at one meal, then picks at a couple, then ravenous again. I guess it's normal for a baby but DS always had a consistently decent appetite so it's strange to me.

Questions/AW? Anyone from the Salt Lake City area? We were there for 5 days and I'm assuming NIP, or at least NIP an older baby, is not really done much there from the side-eye and weird looks I got. No one said anything, but it definitely struck me as odd, especially being from a very BFing-friendly community.

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did? I do not, but DH does. This year, tomatoes, zucchini, blackberries, basil.. not sure what else. We also have a lemon tree, a peach tree and green onions but those are a few years old.

[kartish]

krispy83 as BF friendly as we are here, at least in my area, I have seldom seen anyone nursing in public. The times I did it, I always was nervous about it. I would prefer to nurse in my car most of the time.

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - 12.5mo

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? - nurses 4-5x during the day. With these molars coming in it's been 2-3x MOTN yikes!! Usually once during the week I give some WCM in a sippy with breakfast, if I'm having some.

Solids? - 3 meals, 1-2 snacks

Questions/AW? - FFC I prefer to nurse instead of giving a solid snack. It's easier, quicker, less messy, and I get snuggles. Thankfully G has distinct signs for each and he'll let me know which one he wants, even if I offer the alternative.

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did? - I don't. I wish I did. I never have enough follow through when I start.

[lilyelayne]

krispy83 I've heard to look at toddler solid food consumption on a weekly basis, not daily and certainly not meal to meal.
I'm not sure I've seen anyone NIP where I live, other than at a babywearing play date. I also haven't gotten any shade for doing it myself, but rarely I'll notice someone do a double take. I nurse my kid wherever :-)

[maryxc1]

How old is your LO? 13 1/2 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? Last night may have been our last session. We have been dropping slowly since 12 months and have been at 1/day for about a week. I'm going to try to go without tonight. She gets soy milk about 3x a day.

Solids? 4-5x a day

Questions/AW? I am very ready to finish weaning, but strangely last night I was getting emotional about it being over. She is our last child so I think it was because this is officially the end of my childbearing (if that makes sense).

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did? We have a small probably 10x12 garden. I do potatoes, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, and basil.

[lilyelayne]

maryxc1 I understand mixing feelings about weaning, and I imagine it's worst when it's your last baby. Congrats on nursing so long!

[mishka29]

maryxc1, hugs to you! I'm in the same boat, just a couple weeks behind.

[mishka29]

How old is your LO? Almost 14 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? We started the am wean on sat morning. LO did much better than either of us expected she would, which is great. I think we will wait about 3 weeks bedore we cut out the pm feed. That's going to be hard for everyone.

Solids? She taught herself how to put a raspberry on her finger and bite it off. Super cute but now she tries to stick her finger in the banana and just makes a mess.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did? No. I'm a plant killer

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? 13 months today!

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? He gets 2, 5oz cups a day: first thing in the morning and before bed.

Solids? Yep, we're learning how to eat out with him, as apparently there is dairy hidden everywhere!

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did? I love gardening. We didn't do one last year because new baby, but this year it's on! Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and beans are my mains. I also do a large mosquito-repelling pot on the porch/patio.

[maryxc1]

Mar 21, 2016 20:06:00 GMT -5 danitaec said:

How old is your LO? 13 months today!

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? He gets 2, 5oz cups a day: first thing in the morning and before bed.

Solids? Yep, we're learning how to eat out with him, as apparently there is dairy hidden everywhere!

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did? I love gardening. We didn't do one last year because new baby, but this year it's on! Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and beans are my mains. I also do a large mosquito-repelling pot on the porch/patio.

We have discovered that eating out is really hard, too. Of her allergies, dairy is by far the hardest. Good luck to you.

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 13 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? 3x weekdays and 5x weekends, plus at least once overnight.


Solids? 3 meals and 1-2 snacks. He's a voracious eater, but got to keep the weight on my tall child. I'm not great at lining up his lunch on weekends with ours so our lunch turns into snack time for him

Questions/AW? DS pushing the boppy toward me to say he's ready for bedtime early is super cute. He pushes it away sometimes when he's done during the day.

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did? I'd love to do flowers and vegetables. I kill herbs easily.

[kartish]

How old is your LO? A year and almost 2 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? We nurse at bedtime and lately several times a night. On my weekends we still have a nap nursing session also. No other milk, he won't drink it from a cup or bottle.

Solids? Yes, and he gets so impatient when he sees us preparing food.

Questions/AW?

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did? Not last year, but we try every year. This year for sure tomatoes, zucchini and pumpkins. Not sure what else. I have to get started on my seeds!

[dmorgendorffer]

danitaec what do you put in your mosquito repelling pot? How well does it work?

[lilyelayne]

Mar 22, 2016 8:27:03 GMT -5 dmorgendorffer said:

danitaec what do you put in your mosquito repelling pot? How well does it work?

Also curious!

[dmorgendorffer]

How old is your LO? 13 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? During the week 3x, 5 or 6 on the weekends.

Solids? 3 meals and 2 snacks a day.

Questions/AW? Daycare is really pushing to transition completely to sippy cups and drop the bottles, but every time I've offered DD milk in a sippy she takes a big swig and then spits it all out. She chugs water from her cup no problem. I think some of you have mentioned this same issue - anyone have any tips for getting her to take milk from the cup?

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did? Nothing edible, but usually my MIL comes up and we plant some annuals in the big pots by our front door and in the bed around our tree. Not sure when she will make it up this year since my SILs due date is toward the end of the April and I'm sure they will not be traveling for a while before and after the baby comes so I might be on my own to figure out what to put in there. Can't have two giant dirt pots on my front porch all summer long...

[lilyelayne]

dmorgendorffer have you tried a different kind of cup for milk? Some kids get attached that liquid A comes from container X and liquid B comes from container Y. So having milk come out when she's expecting water (from her water cup) may be throwing her off? Are you giving her breastmilk still or WCM?

[seamonster]

Mar 22, 2016 8:40:26 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

dmorgendorffer have you tried a different kind of cup for milk? Some kids get attached that liquid A comes from container X and liquid B comes from container Y. So having milk come out when she's expecting water (from her water cup) may be throwing her off? Are you giving her breastmilk still or WCM?

Different cup worked for the most part, but they give him a bottle at daycare because he likes to play with the cup too much. He does the same with water, so it's more a mess thing there.

Maybe try a straw cup?

[danitaec]

Here's the link for my pot. I found all these things, or something close to them.

[agm04]

danitaec you've done it before? good results? moquitos here are out of control here. last year we had one of those systems installed that sprays at dawn and dusk, but it can still be bad.

[danitaec]

agm04, I have done it, and it worked ok. Mosquitos LOVE me, so I need extreme measures. At the very least it smells/looks good. We put it by the door so hopefully they wouldn't get inside.

[duckker]

How old is your LO? One million years. Or maybe 13 months on Saturday? One of those.

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? I nurse first thing in the morning and before bedtime. After daycare if she's up for it. No WCM--the girl pounds water like she's in the Ironman, and judging by her growth rate, probably is just fine on her steady diet of eating everything in sight.

Solids? All of them. For some reason, she won't eat strawberries or eggs at home, no matter what. But out in the wild? Or at daycare? Or with Nana? It's like she's been forbidden to have them at home and must tank up on the experience.

Questions/AW? I'm stupid proud of her self-feeding ability, for which I take zero credit. Babygirl had two bowls of chicken soup with rice and veggies tonight, with a spoon and almost none ended up anywhere but inside her. She even tipped the bowl to get the last bits. Both times. And then ate two slices of my gluten free pizza. And then nursed. If she doesn't STTN tonight, I don't know what...

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did? I have always wanted to, but we never had a yard. Now we have a huge yard. In the desert. At some point I want to learn how to garden here. That point is a very distant one, in the far future.

I HAVE MISSED Y'ALL!!!!!

[lilyelayne]

duckker !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deleted]

How old is your LO? 1 year 2 weeks

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? 1xday, pm.

Solids? Yep. She'd eat all the pasta in world if I let her, there just seems to be no bottom to this kid.

Questions/AW? Nothing.

GTKY: do you garden? If so, what are you planting? If not, do you wish you did?
We have a balcony and usually plant tomatoes and peas. Every year I get totally excited about planting, then DH ends up taking care of it because I'm too lazy. So this year I let DH take care of it from the beginning