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[Mama505]

Sky-  My friend's DS stopped nursing when she was pregnant (he was about 20mos. and she was about 3/4 of the way through).  He would still lay down and kind of pretend to nurse, but didn't really do anything, and she was dry as well.  After the baby came he was back in the game, and full swing too!  He wanted to nurse almost every time the new LO latched on.  She always has an overabundant supply so this really helped with leakage issues.  So, like Banana said, she may pick it back up!  As far as naps go, is it warm enough where you are yet to get outside in the mornings?  Maybe if you do some wild outside time in the am she'll be worn out and nap later?  When DS was starting to skip naps (but feeling miserable after 3pm without them) I started packing up snacks/lunch and taking him on walks then to the park all morning.  We would eat there and then I would stick him in the stroller and take the loooong way home.  Sometimes he would sleep as long I we were moving in the stroller, then wake when we stopped, but sometimes I could go home and take him out and lay him down for a proper nap.

Good luck and hugs!

[skycheattraffic]

thank you ladies... I hope she will pick it up too. I'm just so emotional with this pregnancy

[AUvetmom]

My 18 mo son is still nursing a bit, particularly in the morning. Yesterday, and it looks like today too, I started having regular contractions while he was doing his early am marathon nurse. Which made me a bit nervous. But he refuses to sleep in the morning without nursing so when I unlatch him, we all have to get out of bed! Has anyone else had this problem while nursing?

[Mama505]

AUvetmom-  When my DS was about that age that was the only way I got to sleep in at all (and I mean until 7 am or so).  Do you co-sleep?  When he was about 2yo we made a sidecar toddler bed for him that attached to ours.  So, he was still really near, and still like to nurse in the ams, but couldn't just roll right over into my boobs!  That helped a lot, and I wish we'd have done it a little sooner. 

[autumnrayne]

I had to stop nursing my son (at 20 months) because I was spotting after he nursed.  It broke my heart because I didn't want to wean him this early.  Luckily it was a very smooth transition and I dried up in a couple days, but man I was not happy about it at first.