4/11 Mommy Milk Monday

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO?

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

Solids?

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's a conversation topic you tend to go on & on about? What about your SO?

[agm04]

How old is your LO? 13 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? 4-5x day

Solids? 3x day + 2 snacks (she says snack now - points toward kitchen and says, "nnnnnnnack?" it's so cute!)

Questions/AW? why do i feel guilty for planning to stop pumping? i have 2 weekends away planned in the next few months, and i feel terrible thinking i may not have milk to leave for her.

GTKY: what's a conversation topic you tend to go on & on about? What about your SO? weight lifting for me! DH could talk about wood working for days on end. i smile and nod but don't get it at all.

[lilyelayne]

How old is your LO? - 13 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? - 4x during the day, 2x MOTN. Sometimes I give cow's milk in a cup at breakfast.

Solids? - 3 meals, 2 snacks.

Questions/AW? - finally got my first pp period. It surprised me because I had no supply drop and no symptoms other than bleeding.

GTKY: what's a conversation topic you tend to go on & on about? What about your SO? - me: breastfeeding, Stephen King, national novel writing month. Mostly BF these days.

DH: Everquest (it's like his version of a jock talking about the glory days of high school football, lol), gaming in general, ideas for redoing our yard.

[lilyelayne]

agm04 I love that LO knows the word snack! DS just says "eat" for everything food related other than nursing.
Let the pump go, lady. Let it go. A few days with less or no breastmilk is going to be fine. Are you worried she'll stop nursing because of it? It's a hard change from the first year when how much breast milk / formula consumed every. single. day. seems (or is, at some stages) so important. It's an abrupt shift in mindset. But look at all the things she can eat and drink now. She'll be fine :-) and you can enjoy all the benefits of nursing, all the benefits of your child drinking breast milk, without all the hassle and hardship of pumping - except maybe on those weekends when you're away.

[agm04]

lilyelayne god bless you. I *know* you're right, but I just feel so bad. She's used to nursing before bed, I guess DH needs to give her a bottle at bed time. She's just now up to half and half mommy/cow milk cups with meals during the day, and I'm not sure how she'd do with all cow milk. I should probably just relax and let them figure it out. So much mom guilt all the time!

Also, meh to the first pp period.  At least there weren't any icky symptoms!

[lilyelayne]

agm04 you could always switch to full WCM cups early & save some frozen BM for the bedtime bottle when you're away, if you think it'll make you less stressed about leaving.

[danitaec]

How old is your LO? 13m3w

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? He gets 5 oz first thing, and 5 at night

Solids? Yep, really loving Plum "teensy fruits" right now

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's a conversation topic you tend to go on & on about? What about your SO?
I guess I talk about pop culture things a lot: movies, tv shows, music. My husband goes on&on&on&on about his job, which is great if you love aggregates...

[kartish]

How old is your LO? 14 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? Bedtime, MOTN, and naps on the weekend

Solids? Throwing them in the floor is better than eating them according to V

Questions/AW?

GTKY: what's a conversation topic you tend to go on & on about? What about your SO? DH goes on and on when he is taking about management at work. And about buying houses. I don't know that I go on about anything, but he'd provable say differently.

[mishka29]

On Saturday LO had her first cup of milk before bed. She did really well with DH. After a week we will combine milk and story time for both girls! Hopefully this will make things quicker....

This check in has been super fun but I guess I'm signing off now since I'm packing away the boobies FOREVER! Lol.

[lilyelayne]

Congrats on 14 months of nursing & congrats on being done, mishka29!

[seamonster]

How old is your LO? 13.9 months (14 on Friday)

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? 3-5 during the day and at least once MOTN. MOTN may be going away and I'll have to relearn how to STTN

Solids? 3 meals and 1-2 snacks. Working on him not screeching when you have something to eat and he doesn't even if he just ate. Which means we Ned to be better about not snacking all day on the weekends and eating an early lunch or during nap time. Which would probably be better for us.

Questions/AW? I may not have to night wean after all. Just need to solve the head banging to go back to sleep though.

GTKY: what's a conversation topic you tend to go on & on about? What about your SO? Now it's my kid and travel. Once upon a time I could discuss politics, literature, movies, tv, and travel.

For H I'd say running, but apparently that's just with other runners or at me. I don't think he goes on anything really with anyone.

[seamonster]

mishka29 Congratulations on making it 14 months and being done.

Any weaning tips for those of us following in your footsteps in the coming months?

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Like mishka29 I am also done.
Last nursing session was Friday and she has already stopped asking for milk.

It feels a little strange that it's over. I don't know if I will miss it or not, but I definitly know I will miss these weekly check ins! It has been so great to be able to get an update about what others are struggling with and know that you are not alone. Thank you so much lilyelayne for running it flawlessly every week!

[lilyelayne]

@alyllyra congrats on 13+ months and on weaning!

And you're welcome. I love talking to everyone each week! Crazy to think it's been about a year since I took over the check in.

[mishka29]

Apr 12, 2016 21:55:36 GMT -5 seamonster said:

mishka29 Congratulations on making it 14 months and being done.

Any weaning tips for those of us following in your footsteps in the coming months?

Thanks! We went with the general recommendation which is to cut out one feed at a time until it's just the am and pm feed. Then goes the am feed. DH gave her the milk cup so it wasn't confusing and same thing when we did the pm feed. We spaced out cutting the am and pm feed by 3 weeks.

[dmorgendorffer]

How old is your LO? Almost 14 months

How often are you nursing / how often does LO get milk? nursing 3x a day at least - before daycare, after, and bedtime. More on the weekends. 2 Bottles during the day at daycare mix of BM and WCM

Solids? 3x a day plus 2 snacks.

Questions/AW? We're almost out of frozen milk, not sure how the transition to 100% wcm at daycare will go because she wont take it at home in a cup or a bottle.

GTKY: what's a conversation topic you tend to go on & on about? What about your SO? For me it is probably work, but I have consciously cut out work talk at home in the evening. Both because it annoys DH and it just makes me more stressed to start talking and thinking about it at home. For DH I'd say houses/moving, although really only with me. He is always telling me about ideas for house projects or planning for our next house, etc, etc.