Is anyone else still nursing....

[strawberryfields08]

I can't be the only one I am sure. But I mean NURSING! Like 4, 5, 6, 7 times a day still. I am exhausted from it! For a while I was dry and DD still nursed all the time, then she slowed down and was only doing it at night and nap, now we are back at it again like crazy and I have colostrum now. At night she nurses AT LEAST 4 times sometimes closer to 8 or 9. I am glad to be still comforting her but am worried that I will be so burned out that I won't feel like nursing the baby as much. DH says I will be renewed by the baby and want to nurse again, but this is exhausting at this stage in pregnancy. So, what about everyone else. Still nursing? Burned Out? Or loving it?

BTW: She is 19 mo and impossible to tell no to. She goes crazy in a matter of minutes if she doesn't get her "nummers"

[maclolo]

Yes... I hate it at this point DS is 19 months too (almost 20) and I am determined to nurse until he is 2. I hope your DH is right and we will both be renewed by our new babies! I was pretty much milkless but our ND/MW gave me a tincture to increase my supply. It has really helped! It tastes yucky, but I take it right before I nurse each time and once again I can hear him swallowing. DS just nurses three times a day... when he wakes up, before his nap, and before bedtime. I feel like I have been nursing forever, but it hasn't even been two years.....

[pixiedust]

hugs and kuddo's to you guys! I ended up weaning at around 5 months preggie (my DD was about 21 months old) I was about dry then but DD was STILL nursing at least 7 times a day it seems. I can only imagine how I would feel nursing right now.

[wwisdomskr]

Dd2 will be 22 months next week, and we're still breastfeeding. For the most part, it's going really well...and I'm so thankful!

I choose to put some limits in place when I'm feeling really tired and have to put limits on it when I'm having lots of contractions. That has been hard.

Dd2 seems to intuitively know when I'm reaching my breaking point. She'll go through a few nights of constant nursing, and then settle back into much longer stretches of sleep.

She loves to play with my belly button and talk about the "baby in there" in between sips. lol. It's really cute.

Hope things get better for you soon, Mama!

Have you tried putting a stiffer pillow in between the two of you when she falls asleep? Sometimes I do that when I'm really exhausted. Then, dd2 isn't wakened so easily by the smell, etc...

[Momma Aimee]

in sert longing smilie here - wishful................

i wish we were still nurseing ...... i am soooooo : and about it. I am having a really hard time i fully meant to nurse the whole pregancy and to Tandman. I never never never even dreamed of Theo self=weaning as mcuh of a boob man as he was -- at 19 months he was still nurseing i kidd you not, over 18 times a day OR MORE...............

Theo self weaned about 2 months ago .... welll below the 2 year mark i had set as MIN we would nurse. Pregant or not i never intended to even remotly LIMIT his on cue / request BFR untill about 26 or 27 months .... much less actually impose any real limits till 3.

He still latches on .. and more and more frequently in the past week, though still not daily. I have to remind him to use his touge and do it right, and he USALLY, not always, does.

We talk daily about the baby nurseing, and how Theo can nurse with the baby too and how Momma would like theo to nurse with the baby and how momma misses Theo nurseing.: Maybe when the milk is overflowing after the new one, he will re-nurse .

I can express liquid now, but i do not think it is colustrum yet, maybe it is, seems more like water. so maybe that is it -- either he doesn't like it, thus the no contnueing to nurse after latch OR the fact that is there at all intrigues him to latch on and "check" ???:

I was pretty much milkless but our ND/MW gave me a tincture to increase my supply.

JEALOUS -- Maybe i could have kept Theo on the breast with a little more milk. I still HAD milk when he stopped nurseing, but i know it was getting really to be a lot of effort to get let down.

I am truely sorry -- mommas -- that you are so tired and worn out.

I feel the same way. That is part of why i wish he WOULD nurse. I could SIT and we could nurse, or i could offer comfort with out having to walk the floor at 1 and 2 and 4 am .... and no matter how short or how little, at least he'd have to be still while nurseing.....

I am countring down the days......

[renaissanceed]

We still are. When I work, it's obviously less, but on my days off, we nurse in the morning when we get up, and then usually I can put her off til nap time, then usually once during nap time, and at the end of nap time, and then once in the evening, and then bedtime and about 3-4 times/night.

So, not as often as you, but still more often than I'd like. I've had good luck over the last month helping her gently understand that she can nurse but not for as long as she wants to. I started by telling her she could have 3 more sips and then the 'boobs' are going to sleep, than I would count down 3, 2, 1. At first she would whine for about 30 seconds, then she would whine for 20 seconds, then 10. Now when I tell her that, she has the world's quickest nips for 2 and 1 (usually) and then pops her soother in her mouth and doesn't protest at all when I cover the boobs with my tshirt.

She is 20 months old so hopefully your daughter might be willing to go with something like this. I'm always careful to reassure her that the boobs will wake up again later and if she has hurt herself or is really upset for some reason, I won't tell her they are asleep and she has to wait until nap time or bed time, which I do sometimes when she just wants to check to see if they're still there.

I'm kind of thinking that when the baby comes, it won't be as bad to nurse her because she'll hopefully be satisfied by the amount of milk being generated more quickly. Also, she seems to be very willing to share the boobs with other objects and knows that 'baby' will want to 'eat boobs' all the time, so I'm hopeful that all will go fairly well...

[kgrfcharlton]

: Mine weaned last week :

When I was in 1st tri - we go down to just a few feedings a day b/c I was so sick. And, to be honest, I planned on nursing until 2, until I got preggo again. I had PPD before & decided I needed to wean Bishop before the new baby came just in case I have PPD again. But, I didn't want to take this away from him. I really prayed that it would be on his terms & it was. He had gone down to just wanting "na-na's" in the morning & he started skipping some mornings. Then last week he stopped asking : . It worked out how it was supposed to, but that doesn't mean I don't miss our nursing relationship.

[strawberryfields08]

Originally Posted by renaissanceed

So, not as often as you, but still more often than I'd like. I've had good luck over the last month helping her gently understand that she can nurse but not for as long as she wants to. I started by telling her she could have 3 more sips and then the 'boobs' are going to sleep, than I would count down 3, 2, 1. At first she would whine for about 30 seconds, then she would whine for 20 seconds, then 10. Now when I tell her that, she has the world's quickest nips for 2 and 1 (usually) and then pops her soother in her mouth and doesn't protest at all when I cover the boobs with my tshirt.

Yes, we have tried this. For a while I was having a PTL scare and mw really wanted me to consider weaning. I told her the "nummers" had owies and occasionally she would cover them up and understand. Now she will finish nursing say "nummer owie" and lean over and give it a kiss These are the moments when I don't feel so bad because they are just so precious still at this age!

Also she does good about sharing "nummers" with her toys and lately her water bottle : So I hope and pray that means she will be ok sharing and my way of justifying my thoughts to myself and my family is that she will adjust to baby better if she still gets to nurse.....right?


Hugs and sorry to the mamas who are sad about weaning and maybe they will resume. I hope so for your sake.

[Mom2ManyBlessings]

Yes, we're still nursing here. He's 2 1/2, and still going. It was down to nap/bedtime until this week, as a matter of fact, but he's started asking mid-morning, now. He also informed me that "Mommy juice came out in my mouth again!" So I guess the colostrum production has started. I was dry for several months, but it didn't deter him in the least.... But he's a very happy boy, now...

We have been talking about how the baby will be drinking lots of mommy juice, and he seems ok with that. He even brings me his babies to nurse. I tandem nursed #3 and #4 for a couple of months, and was perfectly fine with it.

HUGS to all you mamas who are struggling at this point!

[Da WIC Lady]

We're still nursing here. DD is 25 months and still going strong. She gets about 5-6 gulps on each side before she decides she's done and wants to comfort nurse. Because of work, we only get to nurse 2-3 times a day and she's been night weaned since well before I got pregnant.

Anna

[LaurieG]

I'm still nursing my DS - he'll be 3 in 2 weeks. I thought he would self wean - I'm sure I don't have much milk anymore. But, he's still going strong a few times a day. This evening I thought for the first time I really wish he would wean, but at this point we are too close to baby's arrival - it would set up all sorts of jealousy issues to wean now.

My contractions get more and more uncomfortable as things go. Is anyone else having intense contractions with nursing?

[Monkeybutt]

Still nursing here too. DD is 3.5. We do the counting thing also.

[pishajane]

Me too, me too! Although i'm getting a lot of pressure from family to wean dd as i'm sooo tired. DD is only 15mo though, so i really don't want to wean her - like yours she just won't understand. And yep, she's still nursing about 6-10 times a day, PLUS at least 6 times a night, usually more!! I'm going crazy with fatigue, and don't really know what to do. I have no idea what's going to happen when i've got 2 all-day all-night boobaholics:

[crunchywannabe]

I am still nursing my 3 1/2 year old.
She asks more than I let her right now...mainly because i am sick and so miserable.
but at least I am not in pain...it was hurting a lot a few months ago, but isn't any longer.

[Bonawich]

I am still nursing my 3 1/2 year old too, although not very often. Pretty much only at bedtime for around 5 minutes. I'm very very impressed with anyone nursing 5-10 times a day since it has been so painful for me.

[sandiegokristi]

I am nursing my son who just turned 16 months and he is no where even close to showing signs of weaning yet. We have cut down on the number of night time feedings and to make up for it he now asks for more nursey during the day. I don't mind the nursing most of the time, but sometimes it really gets my predomonal labor going. It will be interesting to see how sharing his boobies goes over.