Sentences with phrase «toddler while nursing»

After having six children in quick succession, Hamilton, Ontario, mom Julie Cole has mastered the art of occupying a toddler while nursing a baby: «Have a few special toys that only come out when you need to breastfeed.»
Entertain your toddler while nursing the baby?
Read to a baby or toddler while they nurse or rock to sleep.
Baby Bunching: What are good activities you would recommend for moms to do with young toddlers while they nurse their infants?

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And here I am now: nursing a squirming and disinterested toddler, every once in a while, and knowing that one of these times, it will be her last time, and it will be my last time to lay skin to skin, tummy to tummy, with my own babies, breastfeeding, and that time is coming soon.
Perhaps your partner would be able to sing to or rock the baby while her brother settles back to sleep, or perhaps your toddler would be willing to listen to a quick, simple story while his sister nurses back down.
I'm not really in the carnival of breastfeeding toddlers (particularly my dd3 weaned last year at 3 years), but I did post a toddler nursing picture while studying a human development textbook with my nursing story at http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/my-breastfeeding-story-and-this-is-what-nursing-a-toddler-looks-like-while-studying/ (scroll down to see the pic).
While nursing a toddler was not something that bothered me, nursing a toddler while pregnant (with all the lovely pregnancy hormones coursing through my system) and without any milk coming out was less than appealing tWhile nursing a toddler was not something that bothered me, nursing a toddler while pregnant (with all the lovely pregnancy hormones coursing through my system) and without any milk coming out was less than appealing twhile pregnant (with all the lovely pregnancy hormones coursing through my system) and without any milk coming out was less than appealing to me.
I loved how I could nurse her hands free while also making my toddler lunch!
While it's usually okay to continue partial nursing well into your child's toddler years if you choose, there are some compelling health reasons why you may want to encourage your little one to eat solid foods for all but one or two meals per day.
For five and a half months, I continued to be congratulated for all that we had managed, for the incredible start to life I had given him, for how strong I was for suffering through the challenges of using a Supplemental Nursing System for all that time, especially while having a toddler in the house, too.
Older infants and toddlers respond especially well to this method, as they start to realize they don't need to be nursed at the same time every day and may get so caught up in doing something else that they forget about nursing altogether for a while.
I am very proud of the fact I can dress a toddler, shop, cook dinner, take a conference call, answer e-mails and text my friend all while nursing.
A toddler will sometimes spontaneously, for no obvious reason, break into laughter while he is nursing.
Many mothers learn about tandem nursing when they become pregnant while still breastfeeding their toddlers.
With the prospect of my husband going back to work and being home all day with an 18 month old and a newborn, I needed fresh, exciting toys every day of the week to keep the toddler busy while I nursed baby, diapered baby, changed baby's outfit for the fourth time in a day, etc. (Meanwhile I kept baby busy, happy and learning during her awake times with activities from my infant play book, Begin With A Blanket)
If you can get past learning to nurse while sleeping and wild toddler sleeping arrangements, 13 continuing to share sleep with your little one may help your whole family sleep better into your child's preschool years and beyond.
One idea that I have read, though, is to keep a basket of books or activities for your toddler next to your chair, so you can read or play with him while you nurse.
-LSB-...] start to life I had given him, for how strong I was for suffering through the challenges of using a Supplemental Nursing System for all that time, especially while having a toddler in the house, too.
Of course, he had a mouthful of teeth and I never had pain during breastfeeding (even when he was doing headstands and flips while latched... nursing toddlers is a totally different experience).
My toddler loves to sing songs with motions, so we do that a lot while nursing.
If you are pregnant and your toddler is showing sigs that they are upset by the decrease in your supply, there are ways to manage this which I cover in detail in my BOOBinar on the topic of Breastfeeding while pregnant and tandem nursing.
And she started posting some stuff I think on Instagram of her in these yoga poses and while her toddler baby is nursing.
I have to leave my toddler with the tv while I go into my 6 month old's room to nurse him because it's the only place I am comfortable.
My daughter is an independent, spirited toddler who likes to cuddle only when she nurses and I'm a mama who has loved breastfeeding from the beginning, even while working through supply issues caused from getting my period five weeks post-partem (and every 3 1/2 -4 weeks since).
These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.
Oh wait, I did once have someone look at me funny while nursing my 2 year old on take off of a flight, right up until she decided it beat a screaming toddler and said it was a good idea.
I'm not sure why I've gotten such a negative response this time, but I thought I've done well, especially having a toddler running circles around me while nursing at home and in public.
I can play with the toddler or take him to the park with my infant snuggled in on my chest or back and can nurse discreetly while still chasing after the two - year old.
Six ergonomic carrying positions — includes each carrying position while not the would like for Associate in Nursing baby insert: front - fetal, front - infant, front - outward, front - toddler, hip and back carry.
If you sit on the couch and nurse your baby while the toddler watches every episode of Daniel the Damn Tiger while eating Frosted Flakes, then your kids are safe, loved, they aren't hungry, your toddler or preschooler is learning something from that adorable pant-less tiger, and they're eating vitamin fortified food.
Every head turned from the pygmy chimps to us, while I waited for the tour guide to announce, «And to the left, we have the nursing human toddler...»
It's World Breastfeeding Week, and while we are thrilled to celebrate the many stories of blissful 3 am feedings and Oxytocin rushes and all the mommies who can proudly share they are still nursing their babies and toddlers months later, there's another side of the story.
Another thing that I see when I look at the photo is a toddler standing — toddlers are very active and when Lil» B was nursing she would stand, sit, twirl, and do acrobats while she was nursing.
When you lovingly look at a toddler who just fell, and is now nursing with that lone tear streaming down his little face while he nurses, no longer crying in your arms, you'll realize that every bad or hard moment of breast feeding was 100 % worth it!!!
Have a «baby doll station» for your toddler or preschooler to care for their baby, while you nurse your baby.
While I don't feel that nursing a baby whenever and wherever there is a need is at all inappropriate, I think that nursing a toddler in public is.
I felt some tenderness, which was definitely made worse by «dry nursing» when my supply dipped and by an active toddler moving around (or worse - talking) while nursing.
Beyond the pain and discomfort of nursing a newborn, then you have babies that are cutting teeth and gnawing on mom's breast, then toddlers who insist on performing acrobatics while nursing.
There are even multiple photos of moms nursing their toddlers while on the pot - photographic evidence that we can't get a moment's peace even when pooping.
The thing that I struggled with the most was - what do I do with two rambunctious toddlers while I try to figure out nursing / feeding this new person?
And trust me, unless you have nursed a fidgety toddler who tries to nurse while being an acrobat then you really have no place to judge an «extended breastfeeder»
How cool, I have actually been very impressed with the way that the men in my family have treated me while nursing my toddlers.
If you nurse them separately, you could nurse the toddler while the baby naps, or before bed as a comfort to them.
After few weeks of pain while nursing my toddler I finally found the right latch trick for him.
I remember nights in the emergency department when mothers would walk their ill, non nursing babies or toddlers up and down the halls trying, often unsuccessfully, to console them, while the nursing mothers were sitting quietly with their comforted, if not necessarily happy, babies at the breast.
You can comfort a colicky infant and still do household chores, nurse a baby while walking with your family, and hold a snuggly toddler without losing feeling in your arm.
I nurse my newborn while sitting on the floor and keep one hand free to read a book or hug my toddler.
He wasn't a great nurser either so wasn't like, you know, we'd gotten off to this fabulous start but it was just, I think this second one learns how to kind of go with the flow a little bit more because it was not all about that child and for me, I didn't necessarily set up a routine but what I did do is, actually a little bit opposite of yours, mine was, I had to satisfy the toddler first, because I figured that, the infant kind of walk around, kind of keep him pacified a little bit, but my toddler was like me, me, me, me, me, like I need this now, so we had a box of toys, that he could play with, like they were only set up for when I were nursing, so they were like his special toys, a special snacks that I knew that would be safe and I wouldn't be giving the Heimlich Maneuver you know, while I was trying to breastfeed.
Watching toddler pick at cereal while you nurse a baby gives you time to snack everyone in the same place.
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