Its frusterations
about night time nursing toddlers and one year olds givig up a paci.
You know in your heart that these sweet moonlight cuddles will end soon but there are niggling doubts
about night time nursing, especially if your baby is a «certain age».
Not exact matches
About as much as the first visit to meet your girlfriends parents or maybe the last
time you went to A and E and had to sit all
night to see a stressed out
nurse to have splinters of glass picked out of your buttocks maybe.
I am still
nursing my daughter 3 - 4
times 2 day 2
night and I am very worried
about what is going to happen later when baby # 2 comes along.
About conceiving while
nursing... we did not have a problem but I think it is because we got pregnant shortly after we dropped our
night feedings — they say that if you
nurse esp between midnight to five am that is the
time your body is most likely to build up your supply and produce hormones that would keep you from getting pregnant.
About a month ago, that changed when my 10 month old started waking up 6
times a
night to feed and refused to be put into her crib (would not remain asleep after
nursing session).
This may even cause your baby to get confused
about what
time it is and demand
nursing sessions at the wrong
time throughout the
night, too.
He also wakes up and
night about 3
times to
nurse.
Our youngest who is almost a year old wakes up
about 6
times a
night to
nurse.
He got his last bottle of pumped milk last Thursday
night, and I
nursed him for the last
time on Saturday
night... when he was sleepy, and I was as engorged as I ever get (and, after two days of no pumping or
nursing, was
about as engorged as a normal woman gets after being a little late with one feeding).
What I worried
about is that this has been going on a couple of days and since last
night, my 13 - week - old exclusively breastfed baby has been fussing and wanting to
nurse all the
time.
When the baby stays with his mother day and
night,
nurses on cue without bottles and pacifiers, starts solids gradually at
about six months, and spends a good deal of his
time either... [Read more...]
At 9mos son was still waking up for what i thought was to
nurse about 2 - 4
times a
night.
Starting from
about 15 months, I cut down on their feeds considerably, so they were only
nursing before nap, before bed, and several
times throughout the
night — more on that in a minute!
I'm not sure if you are still looking for advice, but I have experience with it... My 8 yr old stayed in the bed with me (and hubby) since day 1, when I got pregnant with my second when he was 16 mths old, we set up his room with a toddler bed (he could get out of his playpen since 9 mths un-assisted, and never had a crib) so we made sure it was fun and playful and gave him that option, we also set up a separate cot beside out bed, so he could be with us still (I was not comfortable being pregnant with a toddler and hubby in bed then, knowing I would have a baby soon) since I was pregnant I was able to talk
about it to him and explain why he was going to have to one day move to his own bed (in our room or his) by the
time I had the baby he was starting the
nights in his own bed and if he woke up he would come into his cot beside our bed... I let him continue like that as long as he wanted, it took
time but I did not push him at all, same with breast feeding I let him make the choice... when I left my hubby (now ex) the boys were both big enough (2 and 4 yrs) for me to be comfortable with them both in bed with me, and I was still
nursing my younger one until he was around 3.5 yrs old, so we just had a big bed with us all piled in, I miss those days so much: (so how did I finally get them both out of my bed?
I have been working full -
time since she was 3 months old and have continued
nursing / pumping, but have thought many
nights about quitting both
nursing and my job since I am so exhausted.
I have been trying to make up my mind
about whether I am doing the right thing or not, as I
nurse my son to sleep most
nights and this is working, and furthermore he has been slightly awake a few
times when I put him to bed (by «accident») and as long as he wasn't overtired he seems to soothe himself to sleep — his makes me feel like he is developing his sleeping habits and learning to sleep although I am constantly worried
about whether I am nurturing a bad sleeping habit.
it took
about a day of nap /
night with us comforting her but not
nursing because she does not need sustanence 4
times in the middle of the
night or to go to sleep... so yes, she cried a bit but a day later and she can reach sound sleep without being preoccupied.
Some
nights she'll
nurse there and then roll over and go back to sleep, but more often recently she wants to
nurse for hours at a
time, so I'm thinking
about trying to keep that session in her bed and not bring her back to ours until she wakes up closer to 5 or 6.
I also thought
about other things related to new motherhood: Some women get
night -
nurses or full -
time nannies from the get - go (and forego the duties and «bonding» that take place during nap - rituals, diaper - changing, bath
time and play
time —
nursing or not).
She had started
nursing again
about 4 to 5
times per
night (we were bed - sharing then) and I was losing my mind with fatigue.
In the early weeks, a baby needs to
nurse about every 2 — 3 hours, or at least 8 — 12
times in a 24 - hour period, including some feeds at
night.
We co-slept and were woken up by our baby each
time he cried to
nurse,
about every two hours each
night.
We've got a co-sleeping 11 month old who wakes, oh, every 1 - 2 hours all
night long, and
nurses just
about every
time he wakes up.
As it was, I listened to my pediatrician (who is unusually knowledgeable
about this) and did something that every
nursing advocate I have ever talked to says (backed by at least on well respected org) to NEVER EVER do — ie I started skipping the
night time feeding and stayed away from the pump.
For
about the first 12 months our
night time routine was
nurse, dad rock him for 30 minutes to go to sleep and then he cuddled next to me in the bed the whole
night.
My son was weaning himself and we were only
night -
time comfort
nursing so I was not concerned
about the diet affecting the quality of my milk.
It is as if you have written every thought that has plagued my mind for the past few months, ill feel great and confident
about it for days, even weeks at a
time and then one
night she'll wake me up several
times throughout the
night to
nurse and cries everytime I try to unlatch.
We bed - shared and
night -
nursed until
about 16 months, and in that
time (although I know it was difficult some
nights) he never asked me to go
nurse somewhere else so he could get some sleep / have space / whatever.
At this
time, a NICU
nurse and fellow mom talked to me
about a practice of disrupting the child's sleep before a
night terror can occur.
Most of the
time they want to
nurse in the middle of the
night it is
about thirst.
He was full and went to his room played with his toys so basictly... I put vinigar on me the whole day and refused to
nurse (I played with him instead) The 2nd
night was the same as first
night, except that he cried for only
about 5 min each
time.