Anyone still pregnant & nursing?

[ladybugchild77]

I have noticed that when I nurse Kiera (which is only like 3 times a day at this point) I sometimes get some doozies of contractions! Other times i feel nothing at all! I have also noticed that my nipples are sooooooo sore but am unsure if that has to do with her latch or just becasue I am nearing the end of this pregnancy. How is everyone else doing???

[AngelBee]

We are not nursing anymore. Angelo stopped around 21 months (he will be 2 on Sunday) I would offer but he would say no.

That is awesome that you are still going!

[corrio]

I'm still pg and nurseing.. And nothing for me.. I'm 6 days past my due date.. Actually the only diffrence I see is my 3 year old wants to nurse all the time.. And its getting kinda hard over this belly of mine..

I did here you will only get contractions when you are ready to go into labour..

Lisa

[Peony]

We still are. I was starting to think maybe dd had weaned until baby came, she hadn't asked in a week, but then she asked yesterday. She talks alot about nursing with baby so I'm expecting her to increase her nursing then. DD has forgotten how to latch on correctly so I'm not looking forward to retraining her when all my milk is here.

[loomweaver]

We had actually cut down to just sleeping times and Leigh, 30 months, was only nursing about 10 minutes max at a time. Then she got sick a month ago and wanted to nurse A LOT during that time (like everytime I sat down) So now she is nursing more and, yes, getting contractions everytime.
She talks about the new baby getting nummies and "Leigh getting nummies too!" We've been reading a lot of nursing books also.

She has switched back to getting into my bed in the mornings (Right next to hers) and nursing in the morning for about 45 minutes. This is the one time that I am nervous about her "sharing" ability. She doesn't even want Daddy around then. She waits until he gets up for work to come over.


Soooo, I guess we'll be tandeming for a while.

[ariahsmum]

I'm still pregnant! I have the gestation of a horse!

I still nurse dd (almost 5) and she has upped her nursing to about 90 minutes a day. My nipples are seriously sore (not used to this kind of sucking), and yes it really gets contractions going. They will be very very very hard, intense, long, and usually 2 minutes aparts (only 1 minute between them). Yesterday I had to stop her from nursing actually, cause they got so intense that there was NO break between them, and I figured that couldn't be great for the baby.

Unfortunately, they don't get labor going. They stop about an hour after our nursing session ends, then go back to puttery BH.

Oh, well. I told dh at least we know nipple stim contracts my uterus very efficiently. If I should need it after the birth...

[LionTigerBear]

I had to stop nursing my 2-year-old almost three months ago, but I started again when I hit 37 weeks. The reason I stopped is it was giving me extremely intense contractions, and I could not get comfortable through them or even deal with them at all while I was nursing. Uggh. Well, I am still getting them when I nurse, but at least I have no worries about them kick-starting labor now, and I don't like just always denying him, even though he doesn't nurse much anymore anyway. But when I just can't stand the pain (or don't feel like dealing with it, or if I'm having strong contractions anyway) then I tell him we'll have num-nums later.

It hurts so bad though, like NOTHING else. Very intense.

[LionTigerBear]

Ariah's mum, mine are really long and strong too-- pretty much continuous once they kick in. Hardly a break at all. They go away really soon after he stops nursing.

[leurMaman]

We aren't nursing anymore - but I wonder if that will make baby #2 come sooner. Good luck!

[ruthieroo]

Me! Though (thankfully) not that often and I really can't stand to do it for long periods but my son is okay with that. It doesn't hurt and I have never felt painful contractions while nursing, it's just terribly uncomfortable. My son is 18 months old and is probably nursing on average 3 times a day for short sessions. He doesn't nurse during the night anymore and often doesn't nurse before bedtime and this is a development that happened only a couple months ago at his own initiative so I'm really proud of myself for not pushing him to night wean any earlier because I was a bit worried I'd be up nursing TWO at night!

[PuppyFluffer]

Dd seemed to have weaned about three weeks before the birth of this baby. I had my baby Oct 8th.

The nursing through out this pregnancy was tender on my nipples the whole time. Dd really didn't like the colostrum at the end. She talked of nursing when I had milk again but has only asked twice. Once for a hurt she sustained falling down and one other time. It was almost as if she just wanted to know that she could nurse - that I would let her.

I never got contractions from her nursing.

[eli's mama]

Me too. I feel like the worst mother ever though, whenever ds (2.5 yo) asks to nurse I turn into a grumpy bear. I do let him but I put a pretty strict time limit on it because it hurts so much. He is asking more as new babe gets closer to making his or her arrival, and I know he's a bit anxious so I try not to say no, but tell him it's just for a minute. It just hurts. I hate denying him, and pretty much can't when I look at his sweet face, but it feels like I'm bf-ing a shark.

[ladybugchild77]

BF a shark! EXACTLY!!! You took the words right out of my mouth! Kiera has been doing this "clamp down as soon as I put my mouth on the nipple thing" and boy does that hurt! I also have been limiting her but only right before bed - it hurts the most then...I am not sure why... but if I don't limit that one I get angry I am in so much pain and then it is hard to put her to sleep becasue all I can focus on are my nipples that feel like someone is ripping them off! Otherwise I am gearing up to tandem and actually am looking forward to it!