However, as my pregnancy progressed, I decided that I wanted / needed to cut down on the
number of nursing sessions per day for a variety of reasons.
Another likely important variable that adds to the challenge of this sort of research is the variation in proportion of calories provided and number
of nursing sessions per day.
Once your child has reached her 2nd birthday, though she may still want to have a taste of your nipples, the length and
frequency of nursing sessions will gradually reduce.
Having a few pics of your baby at the breast or a
video of a nursing session will be priceless once this phase ends and the next begins.
It can happen at the
start of the nursing session when your baby is impatient to get some milk because, let's face it, you are taking too much time removing your shirt and they haven't nursed for 45 minutes!!
No rushing to a bathroom in the
middle of a nursing session or when you've got a full grocery cart — I can wait until I'm ready to change a diaper without dealing with an accident.
«Chances are you are going to be asymmetric on some level, but you can nurse your baby first on the larger breast for all or most
of your nursing sessions as this is when babies typically have more vigorous sucking,» O'Connor says.
Instead, I find that for the first week or so of nursing a baby I have to take a deep breath and mentally prepare for the first minute or
so of each nursing session because it is quite uncomfortable.
I'm trying to limit the number
of nursing sessions in the day (she says, nursing as she writes) but think I'm going to have to invest in some high necked maternity jump suits to keep him from forcing his way under or over!!!
I found she bit when she was hungrier for solids than milk and if she was really tired and almost always at the
end of a nursing session.
When turning the pump on, it automatically starts off with a «gentle stimulation mode» that's intended to get the milk flowing like babies do with their quick little sucks at the
beginning of a nursing session.
If your child is vomiting often and not keeping the milk down for long, it may be helpful to breastfeed frequently but limit the
length of each nursing session (so your child takes in less milk at once).
Now he is 4.5 weeks old and I've tried to increase the
number of nursing sessions but he seems to only get 2 - 3 oz per feeding when he nurses (I can guess because of my pumped amount after a nursing session).
So usually toddlers will start to let go of
some of the nursing sessions throughout the day on their own.
(Tip: if you were making them switch breasts after a certain amount of time, start letting the baby decide (unlatch) when they're done with one breast and then switch sides, and / or start each nursing session on the breast they finished with the last time, so they have a chance to get all the fatty milk that usually comes at the end
of a nursing session.)
The hindmilk is the milk that comes at the end
of a nursing session, and it's full of fat to bulk up the child.
Margaret would express and freeze all the milk left at the end
of her nursing sessions, so that when the baby was hungry and she wasn't available, Bob had a ready bottle of breast milk on hand.
When we say that those flutter sucks at the end
of a nursing session are «just pacifying,» we forget that a mother may have another «letdown» late in a feeding, and the baby may get more milk.
Repeat the process until either
all of the nursing sessions are dropped or you've dropped the desired amount of feedings.
Help Mom wean her baby by tracking the number
of nursing sessions and then eliminating them one at a time
I never let them get upset and I do continue to nurse them after a moment, but my eldest quickly realized that biting could signal the end
of a nursing session.
You are required to boost the number
of nursing sessions you have or bottles, maybe every 30 - 40 minutes if needed to make up for this.
Technically speaking, we've been weaning since day one, particularly once he started eating solid foods, and slooooowly started letting solid food take the place of
some of his nursing sessions.
PRIOR TO FEEDING: If the baby is known to bite at the beginning
of a nursing session, it may be due to tension in the jaw or sore teething gums.