Anyone nursing?

[Willowrose]

We are still currently nursing. Asher is 21 months and nurses pretty frequently. I've had to use a lot of distraction to cut back the last few days as it has been quite painful.
Anyone else having troubles? I am really hoping to make the 2 year mark of nursing. DS#1 weaned when I was 3 months pregnant. Ideally I'd love to tandem nurse if we get that far!

[gabry]

Yep, right over here! Ds is 20 months and still nurses plenty. I'm just barely pregnant (13 dpo), no sore nipples yet. I'm like you, hoping to make it at least to two yrs, and possibly tandem nurse.
I'm just so thrilled I even got pregnant, I only started af again at 16 mo pp, and luteal phase was really short, but thanks to B6, vitex and progesterone and good timing, here we are..

[hottmama]

I am nursing my 27 mo. old constantly still (multiple times an hour during the day), and plan to tandem nurse. He'll turn 3 a couple of weeks after his sister/brother is born. So far, so good, although I know that they say pregnancy symptoms sometimes don't appear until 6 weeks, so we'll see in another few days. I really hope my milk doesn't dry up, because I know dry nursing sucks.

[because]

DD, 27 months, is still nursing. We don't plan to wean her and I'd be up for tandem nursing. She'll be a week short of 3 yo when this one comes.

I had her down to 3-ish times a day when I was trying to ovulate (I'm very sensitive to prolactin and didn't even get 1st PPAF until she was almost 26 months). She upped it a bit in the last few days but I'm just starting to get sore. I had horribly sore nipples starting very early (like 8 dpo) when I was pg with her and I thought maybe I was going to avoid it this time because I hadn't gotten sore yet.

Starting today, though, ow! It feels like soreness from a really bad latch. Is this how pg soreness feels to others or was it maybe actually bad latch?

[hottmama]

Jessica- I am 5w, 3d and just starting yesterday/today it feels like my son is biting me! I think he does have a bad latch though, but it wasn't bugging me so much before. It definitely is starting to irritate me, but I'm sticking with it, no matter what. It's cool that our kiddos are so close together and we're due around the same time! Julian was born 1.31.03 and I'm "due" 12.28.05.

[Willowrose]

Jessica, mine is very painful. I had no pain nursing the first time, but I guess it is common....

[zjandosmom]

My ds is 24m and still nursing away . Ds 1 nursed all through pg and beyond, ds2 self-weaned 2m before ds3 was born. I have no idea what ds#3 will do...I am open to whatever he wants. I will say I did just this week night wean him (no flames please), not because I was pg though. I just needed more sleep than he was letting me get. He still co-sleeps and truly was fine with our night weaning. Ok........my pg-induced insominia is alive and kicking :

[rebx]

My DD is nursing, too. In fact, I was pretty sure I must be pregnant when she started nursing every few hours this last week...I think my milk supply is already changing! My DD be 2 1/2 yrs old next month, and I'm hoping she'll be able to nurse through my pregnancy if she wants to - I had a very irritable uterus during my first pregnancy, and I'm really hoping that nursing her doesn't trigger those same uterine contractions this time around.

[gabry]

Are you mommas still co-sleeping with your current nursling? Just curious to see what (if any) visions of the future you have relating to that? I find it hard to imagine having two nursing kids in the bed (and I would worry a little about my toddler crawling all over the baby).
Ds now starts out the evening in his crib (in our room), comes to our bed when I go to bed. It might be possible to work towards letting him sleep in his crib all night, but then what about the baby waking him up? I can't really see moving him to another room yet..
Anyone btdt? Anyone who 'has a plan'? Or are you just going to take it as it comes?

[hottmama]

I still cosleep, although my son is night weaned. I plan on keeping him in my bed until he wants his own (and believe me, I've asked). I think we might have to put two mattresses together to fit two grown-ups, one 3 yr old, a baby, and kitty. We can't get a queen sized bed up to our bedrooms because of the way the staircase is. My other idea is to get a king-size air mattress, and buy one of those memory foam toppers for it. But I'm not sure if memory foam is safe for babies, because I don't know how soft it is. We had a pillow-top when J was a baby and it was definitely not smooshy enough for him to suffocate or anything.
I am a bit worried about my rolly-poly kid kicking the baby or something, but I'll just stay in between the two of them. I won't let them sleep in the bed together without me in it, definitely.

[because]

Originally Posted by rebx

My DD is nursing, too. In fact, I was pretty sure I must be pregnant when she started nursing every few hours this last week...I think my milk supply is already changing!

DD seems to want to nurse more, too. I wonder why?

We cosleep. We have a queen and twin together right now and it's more than enough room for DH, me, and DD. I figure it'll go: wall - DD - DH - me - baby - side rail.

DD is night weaned but still nurses to sleep and then around 6:00 am until we get out of bed around 8-8:30. That's the part I'm worried about. It's definitely her favorite time to nurse.

[Camellia]

I am nursing dd who turned one last weekend. I really, really hope I am able to nurse her through this whole pregnancy. She still nurses very frequently. I'm a little tender at latch on sometimes, but I hope it doesn't get too bad.

I plan to tandem nurse. I don't forsee Kylie weaning before 3. She is a boobaholic :LOL

[AnaMom]

Yes, 38, nursing 21 month old, got BFP yesterday

Willlow/All:

Glad to find this thread. Congrats to everyone on being pg! Posted a long request for help/support/info over in Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy. I'm also nursing 21 month old DD and like others here hope to continue through pregnancy and tandem nurse if I can and if DD wants to continue. Current challenge is OB is telling me to wean, but I think it may be more out of lack of info on her part. I'm pretty sure I will ignore her, but I really need support. I guess I would feel even better if I could find some other older moms who are making the same choice, as an older mom there is a sense in which time to try is limited so you don't want to take any chances--not that anyone of any age wants to take any chances. Anyway, hopefully this is understandable. . . support is helpful from everyone but if any older moms peek out of the woodwork in same situation I guess I would find that extra comforting.

Excited to be pg, nervous of course (and will be until I deliver), concerned about MC although I don't have a serious history of MC or even early labor (I did have one chemical pregnancy before my DD but that was a VERY early loss, I was only pregant post-implantation for about 5 days, if that).

Also, I'm having some light spotting for last 2 days since I got the BFP. But it is very light and this is right about the time when I would expect AF.


Sara, 38, mom to Ana who is 21 months, DH is 34

[Nature]

Nursing here too! I just found out we're expecting, but I had suspected something because dd (21 months) started to nurse nonstop again the past week. I don't have any breast or nipple pain yet so thats good at least! We co-sleep as well, and I've found that she has not wanted to let go of my nipple at all during the night. This makes for a very sore back in the morning! :LOL

I'm so excited though. I really wanted to have children closer together, and I'm hoping to tandem nurse if dd will still be interested.

[gabry]

Sara and Witchymama, congrats and welcome!
Sara, I'm almost 35 and am nursing my 20 month old ds, and have no intention of quitting during pregnancy. I don't have any studies to recite, but everything I've read, even mainstream books say nursing during pregnancy is okay. Kellymom website has a lot of good info.
Actually, my pediatrician even warned me when I said I was ttc, that my ob might tell me to stop nursing but to just smile and nod and keep on going, that she had absolutely no objections.
BTW, if your ob feels so strongly about this, might she also have other philosophies that clash with yours? You might want to reconsider using her altogether, if that's the case..

[Nature]

When I was pregnant in February (m/c) my OB I had told me I needed to wean my dd right then. I explained to him that it was safe, and there was no reason to wean her.. and he got very angry with me. It said it was unsafe, and his reccomendation was weaning. "It could cause you to miscarry and are YOU willing to take that risk?" I told him there was no evidence that were true at all. Later that day I found out the baby was a blighted ovum and had stopped developing weeks ago. He was so cold to me when he told me, and at the follow up visit, and I vowed I would NEVER go back there.

I'm hoping to find a midwife in the area that is supportive of breastfeeding while pregnant!

And thanks for the welcome Gabry!

[MuhajibahMama]

We're nursing and co sleeping here as well..well sort of...

We night weaned DD in hopes fertility would return, so I nurse her down and then leave. So both girls are alone together until DH joins them late in the night. He then brings me DD in the morning to nurse when it is time to get up.

When DD#2 was born we all slept together (DH-DD1-me-DD2). Then DD2 moved off into the girl's room and then we moved thetwo in together when dd was about 16mos (she's going on 23mos now).

As for what we'll do in January? I haven't a clue! :LOL

[JennInSeattle]

Nathan is 20 months and still nursing but I've cut his nursings down quite a bit - mostly because I've been so irritable. He's down to 3-4 times a day and 2-6 times at night. I'd really like to night wean him and forsee that in the second trimester - hopefully it's the Lord's will that we make it to the second trimester!

We do modified co-sleeping, Nathan's toddler bed is butted up to our bed and I pull him in for nursing - some nights I choose to rub his back instead of nursing in the middle of the night - it just depends. But I plan to move him into his own room during this pregnancy at some point. I can't imagine co-sleeping with two - Dan hates co-sleeping with one! lol

[zjandosmom]

WitchyMama2- I second your finding someone who is more supportive of your choices. This will be my third nursing pregnancy! My first was a preemie and my midwife still didn't bat an eye when I told her I intended to keep nursing for as long as ds1 wanted (when pg with ds#2). What I have read is that if it safe for you to have sex than it is safe to nurse. The uterine contractions you have from sex are stronger than those caused by nursing KWIM? Congrats on being preggo!

[rebx]

AnaMom - I'm 36, pregnant with #2 and plan to nurse my DD as long as she wants to nurse...There's a mother in my family who had 4 kids, 2 born in while she was in her 20's, 2 born in her 40's (40 and 42) - She nursed baby #1 through pregnancy #2 and baby #3 through pregnancy #4, then tandem-nursed babies #3 & #4 for the next few years. She didn't have any problems with any of her pregnancies or births, either during her 20's or 40's.

WitchyMama2 - Here are a few links to some info you could share with your OB if you'd like, about nursing during pregnancy:

http://www.attachmentparenting.org/artnewlook.shtml

http://www.lalecheleague.org/cgi-bin...ding+pregnancy

HTH!