I had long since stopped offering the breast, and I began to limit him to morning and
night time nursing sessions.
Not exact matches
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.
In fact, healthy babies can go from many
night nursing sessions, to none, and back to
night nursing a few
times during that first year.
Even if she is spitting up a few
times per day (or
night) she is most likely getting adequate nutrition because of her frequent
nursing sessions.
My 8 month old son is getting distracted / refusing to
nurse at
times... distracted my people, the dog, the phone on the
night stand, my water bottle or any noise he hears... He used to
nurse every 2 hrs for 20 — 40 min... but lately he will go longer between
nursing sessions and only wants to
nurse for 5 min and sometimes not at all even when it has been 4 because something else catches his attention.
If your child is still waking for a
night nursing session after a week or two of sleep training, he may need more
time before he is able to sleep through the
night.
I try to limit her to one morning, one noon, and one
night nursing session with a few
times in between if she is in need of some calming mommy
time.
My 8 month old son is getting distracted / refusing to
nurse at
times... distracted my people, the dog, the phone on the
night stand, my water bottle or any noise he hears... He used to
nurse every 2 hrs for 20 — 40 min... but lately he will go longer between
nursing sessions and only wants to
nurse for 5 min and sometimes not at all even when it ha... [Read more]
Not only do the components of breastmilk change depending on the age and stage of the nursling, variations also exist within each
nursing session, with the
time of day or
night, and to some extent with maternal diet.
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.
You will likely find it a great help during those sleepless last trimester
nights, during marathon
nursing sessions, for colicky dinner
times and eventually to rest in while you nervously watch the door for when your teen is late in returning home from the movies.
So through my pregnancy I started rubbing his back and singing to him when he woke at
night while I was
nursing him and then slowly, with
time, I tried to make the
nursing sessions shorter and used more of the back rubbing and singing instead.
These
sessions need not be uniformly spaced, however you ought to be
nursing or pumping at least once at
night in the beginning for a couple of months or at any
time you feel a decrease in supply.
Sometimes I resent the middle - of - the -
night nursing session that still happens most
nights, and other
times I love the peacefulness of it being just the two of us awake.
It is never far from my
nursing spot and even in the middle of the
night I find myself grabbing it to record at least the
time of my son's
nursing session and diaper change as we establish our breastfeeding relationship.
But as a general rule, I start with «replacing» one
nursing session a day with bone broth (usually at
night in hopes to get them extra full to sleep longer)... and work my way up until they are getting bone broth a few
times a day.