My first only gave up
night time nursing around 13 months.
Not exact matches
Rachel Held Evans recently wrote: «Every
night, as I
nurse my little boy for the last
time before bed, I pray for the mamas
nursing their babies in refugee camps and rafts
around the world, desperate for a safe place to call home.»
Of course, I am the mother of an 18 - month - old who still wakes three
times a
night to
nurse, and I spend a good percentage of the week walking
around like a zombie.
In May, Lily's second birthday passed, and again, no signs of weaning We have some boundaries set
around night nursing (so mama can get some sleep) and
around nursing in public, but for the most part, she has full access to the breast and still
nurses 4 - 6
times per day, more when she's teething, overstimulated, sick, growing...
I am
nursing two right now 4 years and one 4 months but the baby only gets up once a
night so I am hoping to have luck with Nfp this
time around
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?
He started sleeping thrugh the
night around 2 mos but then
around 4 mos I got sick 7 when he would awake I didn't want to take the
time to shush him back to sleep so I started putting him in bed &
nursing.
Around 8 mos we moved him to his own room & I would
nurse in there a few
times a
night.
And while we had a pretty easy baby the second
time around, we also had certain things in place (babysitter,
night nurse to help me with my C - section post-op care of the baby, more involved family) that made the entire experience significantly easier.
As he is still feeding
around 3
times in the
night, I want him close enough to be able to
nurse lying down without too much disturbance.
Be sure you're tending to your own needs and getting enough rest every
night to have the best possible results when the
nursing time rolls
around.
I have
nursed 4 children
nights — 3 of them
nursed till almost 5 and the fourth is now 2 1/2 and they did naturally extend their number of hours of uninterrupted sleep on their own over
time with maturity, reaching a «full»
night (sometimes)
around 3 or 4... But with teeth... I don't know the «research», and I guess theoretically the sugar in the milk would encourage cavities.