Not exact matches
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.
He recently started daycare, so on weekdays he only
nurses when he comes home, at bedtime and during the
night, which I know is not the best for his teeth, but
keeping us both
up all
night every
night would probably be worse in many ways.
I continued to
nurse my son in the middle of the
night until 6 months, which is when I finally gave
up nursing (going back to work and pumping just wasn't working to
keep my supply
up).
If your baby wakes
up during the
night and needs attention, it's easier for you to reach him or her for nightly
nursing and other need s if you
keep him or her in the same room for a while longer.
For awhile, I
kept a list called «Melissa's
Night - time Tired Brain Reminder Extravaganza» on the table by the rocker that reminded me to do things like give the baby a little time to self - soothe before picking him
up, or to try giving him another opportunity to
nurse if he's been
up for awhile — things I would easily forget in my exhaustion and lack of baby experience.
I was
nursing him through the
night and working a lot during the day, on top of
keeping up with my two other kids.
At first I thought I had to wean her before baby # 2 had nightime needs, soon I realized we could
keep up nursing and found creative ways to wean baby # 1 from nightime
nursing and still be with her every
night.
It's more likely that you're just getting interrupted sleep at
night, while working and / or
keeping up with the baby's needs (and if you're
nursing, manufacturing food «round the clock) all day long.
So if she's not sleeping without
nursing and rocking first, or she still gets
up multiple times throughout the
night and won't go back to sleep without the same send - off, she's wise to the fact that crying often results in being picked
up, rocked and fed — pretty good motivation to
keep right on wailing.
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.
It took
up a fair bit of room in our queen - sized bed, but even once my husband returned we
kept using it; most
nights, she'd sleep in the nest from 10 - 4 (with at least one
nursing session, sometimes more) and then I'd lie her on my chest with pillows all around me from 4 - 7, it was the best sleep either of us got!
Keep in mind that many babies experience a growth spurt around 4 months of age, so that could be the reason your baby is suddenly waking
up hungry at
night, or needing to
nurse more frequently during the day.
To meet a newborn's nutritional needs and
keep up his milk supply, breastfeeding mothers need to
nurse on demand, day and
night.
I
keep my supply
up by cosleeping with her and
nursing throughout the
night.
If you
night wean,
keep in mind two things: (1) your baby will still likely need an early morning feeding for a while, after which he may
nurse back to sleep or be
up for the day — be prepared for either scenario and (2) you can still
nurse your baby down to sleep at the beginning of the
night.
It started in the hospital when, on my second
night there, I couldn't sleep because I
kept waking
up every ten minutes to make sure my newborn was still breathing so I asked the
nurses to take her for the
night so I could try to catch
up.
This yo - yo went on for years, I know working as a
night nurse my body clock was always trying to
keep up.