My ds (23mos) is nursing like crazy...no soreness

In fact, I have no pg symps except tired.

when does nursing start to hurt?

Oh yeah, I am 13dpo so far Too soon for boobs?

my nursling is 11 mo. and my nipples are sore when he nurses but not really bad though I remember last pregnancy it didn;'t start really bugging me until I was 4-5 mo preggo and then my milk dried up as well.

when I was pg with ds it felt like broken glass in my nipples....I was also worried about about m/c with nursing, but it sounds like you have already btdt...Ishould just relax...i couldn't deny ds his milky milks anyway

Yesssss.....but thankfully it's only bad when he first latches on. I'm trying to get him to slow down the frequency of his nursings by telling him that the milkies are sick:wink, and he seems to be understanding and letting up on me at least a little bit.

It's a little uncomfortable. She only nurses to sleep at this point-usually 3x in 24 hours but I would like to wean her soon. I'm nervous about a m/c although Kellymom says there is not link between nursing and miscarriage. I also just feel pretty ready to wind it down. I feel good about nursing for 16 months and hope in the next 1-3 months to finish completely.

Yeah, my boobs are a bit on the sore side. Personally, I'm hoping DS self-weans at some point here (21 months now)... though I'm in no hurry. Mostly, I'm just not sure I want to tandem. You know??

Oh gosh, yes. DD is really sick right now as well and nurses ALL NIGHT LONG. It's almost enough to push nightweaning, but she's only 13 months and she'll get better soon.

My nipples really started hurting at just about 6 weeks. It hurts SO badly when he first latches on, and then is somewhat painful the rest of the time. He doesn't nurse very often during the day, but he nurses off and on all night long. I really really want to work on night weaning him, but I don't think he's going to be very happy about that.

Yeah, my boobs are a bit on the sore side. Personally, I'm hoping DS self-weans at some point here (21 months now)... though I'm in no hurry. Mostly, I'm just not sure I want to tandem. You know??

That's exactly how I feel, except my ds is 31 months. I think tandeming is beautiful, but I just don't think I have it in me. I'm already getting irritated at his nursing antics and sometimes constant whining about it, so I couldn't imagine having to deal with that on some level AND nursing a newborn. Plus I think I would like to have my body be left alone to "do it's magic" during pregnancy, instead of being pawed at every hour. :o But, he's still nursing at least 6 times a day(or something like that), and occasionally at night.... cutting him back to a 2 or 3 times a day schedule at this point seems unlikely. Maybe when my milk goes...but he is pretty passionate about his mama milk, so I wouldn't be surprised if he dry-nursed.

Jeez, I guess I sound really bitter about nursing my toddler. :( I'm trying not to be....but I guess I am sometimes. I just figured by this point he'd be down to 2 or 3 nursings a day. And he doesn't give up too easily when I tell him no, so it's frustrating.

so far no discomfort or soreness *knock on wood*

dd is 13 months and still nurses about 6 times over the course of a day/night. She's also cutting molars right now so a little extra nursey at night.

if she remains interested in nursing throughout the pregnancy I will try and go with it. I didn't really enjoy tandeming last time, so we'll see...

Still nursing my 16 month 5-6 times a day, mostly at night. I haven't noticed any soreness yet but I don't look forward to it. I just stopped pumping at work so although I would love to night wean I think the timing is bad. I would like him to nurse closer to 2.

My ds (23mos) is nursing like crazy...no soreness

In fact, I have no pg symps except tired.

when does nursing start to hurt?

Oh yeah, I am 13dpo so far Too soon for boobs?

me too! ds2 is 22mths (almost) I've already had the icky stomach though. no sore boobs though. I've not had them with any of my pregnancies though.

I am not too sore yet. A little, but not bad. However, my supply has definitely dropped. DS2 is 31 mo. I did tandem nurse him and DS1 for about 3 months, & obviously nursed DS1 through my preganancy w/DS2, but tandem nursing was HORRIBLE for me/us. I wish that I had known how awful it would be for me/us because if I had, I think weaning could have been a gentler experience. But I didn't know, and that's all there was to it.

I have no intention of tandem nursing this time, however. I think it can be a wonderful thing, don't get me wrong, it's just NOT for me. I had told DS2 about a month ago that nurseys are for waking up, going to sleep, and when I've been away for a long time (during the day) and he's been mostly fine with that - he had been nursing like 10x a day if I was around before I made that decision, too. But . . . he definitely stepped up the nighttime nursing to compensate. And he's trying to nurse for like an hour at a time now that my milk is going away. So I think I'm going to encourage further steps towards weaning in as compassionate a way as I can.

DH says he remembers me promising him I would NOT try to tandem nurse again last time :lol!

My boobs are SO sore!! My 17 month old is nursing like crazy and I can barely take it any more. I feel like she is sucking my nipples raw. I never knew nursing could be so frustrating. Just needed to vent.

Oh and my nipples didn't start getting sore till probably 20-25 dpo.

I'm tandem nursing my almost-4-year-old and just-turned-2-year-old. I'm not experiencing much soreness yet, but that's never been much of a pregnancy symptom for me. I nursed through my second pregnancy without too much discomfort--hopefully this one will be no different!

It is sometimes a little..."pinchy," for lack of a better word. I'm curious how this will all play out in terms of my kids' nursing. I didn't lose my supply until really late in my second pregnancy, but my oldest was exactly 12 months younger than my youngest is now, so I suspect that I might be starting with a bit lower supply (because nursing 2-and-4-year-olds still doesn't quite measure up to nursing a 12-month-old, which is how old my son was when I got pregnant with my daughter).

mine are very sensitive it seems. I have night weaned my 21 month DS but he still needs them for nap time and somtimes odd hours of the morning lately like 5 am but i think he is getting his 2 yr molars. When does the milk dry up during pregnancy?

Not sore as of yet. Good thing, because I'd have a hard time working through that. Baby and I were both sick as dogs past two days with some stomach virus from hell. The night we spent throwing up together, she actually realized that titties were making her sick and so passed out without them at least three times. Of course, since then she screams if I unlatch her while she's sleeping. Still gives me hope for the future as I'm fairly realistic about needing to wean her before #2 arrives.

I've had to reposition/latch check dd a few times, not because it was sore, just uncomfortable. Also, twiddling is OUT. I just won't have it. But I'm committed to continued nursing, and looking forward to tandeming. I bought the 'Adventures in tandem nursing" book, and have stationed it by the bed to read sometime in the next 34 weeks. (Right after I finish the Harry Potter series... my life was really crazy when the last two were released, so I'm catching up now!)

I just started getting a little sore today. DS2 is 18 mos and I'm only 11 dpo. I'm kind of hoping he weans during pregnancy too, I don't think I want to attempt tandem nursing.

well if you have an obsessive nurser like mine--your bb's would have been hurting for the last 6 months and now have just about had it.

when I was nursing my dd and pregnant with ds they didn't start to hurt until the end of the 1st trimester and it would come and go. It kind of peeked around 20wks and then slowly dwindled....

sucks though.
sarah

when I was nursing my dd and pregnant with ds they didn't start to hurt until the end of the 1st trimester and it would come and go.

sarah

Mine started out quite painful but it's dwindled now, after a week....it had me so baffled that I took another HPT yesterday. :lol BFP, of course. I guess the pain will be back...I just thought it was weird that it went away so quickly.

my boobs are fine but at times my nips feel all chaffed and sore, so much so that early hosur of this morning, DD2 came into bed with me for her 6am feed, i wsa dreaming abotu sore nipples and putting nipple cream on them, woke up and yep they were really sore.

i cant tollerate her feeding for as long as she would like to so have to keep swaping over and over

Kiz

Ok, I am so glad to have read this thread. I was wondering why my breasts felt like broken glass when DD nurses. I had no idea of this. I tried all anti yeast stuff, and no relief. We tried switching positions and no better either. But this is what is weird to me:

I have had painful nipples for several weeks, even before I thought I was ovulating. I took an ovulating test on the 28/29th of Nov (and it was positive}), and found I was pregnant 11 days later. But I am starting to wonder if I am farther along than I think I am. Why would my nipples hurt several weeks ago, and my pregnancy test register very dark on 11dpo? How could this be?

My boobs are SO sore!! My 17 month old is nursing like crazy and I can barely take it any more. I feel like she is sucking my nipples raw. I never knew nursing could be so frustrating. Just needed to vent.

Oh and my nipples didn't start getting sore till probably 20-25 dpo.

here I am 20 dpo, nips started getting sore at 18dpo...still tolerable though :)
ds is an acrobatic nurser! he sticks his but in the air, takes turns kicking his legs,bounces, jumps..loves to go from boob to boob every 5 seconds...
marathon nurses in the morning...1 hr+

I can handle that, but It drives me nuts having to fight to protect my other nipple! I have to hold onto it for dear life...he digs for it with all his little might..:irked:

There is no way I could wean him peacefully:( so for now we will go with the flow, trying to teach him some boundries.
When dh comes home for Christmas holidays next week we are going to work on no milky milk until the sun is up...

he doesn't need boob to go to sleep, but he is crooked if he does not get it upon waking ( naps too)
He wakes between 430 and 530....ouch!

Anyone who nursed through pg, did it send you into labour early?
I would like to go the full fourty weeks (I know they say it is ok to go after 36 or 37, but I like 40+ just to be sure), but I heard that bf might start contractions b4 that

I nursed through my last pregnancy and went to 42 weeks exactly! :thumb

I think as long as you don't have a history of preterm labor, you should be fine. In the end, I recall that nursing would sometimes bring on a Braxton-Hicks contraction, but that was all, for me.

The other thing is that your child may slow his nursing habits as your supply and milk change during pregnancy. My almost-4-year-old nurses more now, I think, than he did during the last months of my pregnancy. (He picked it *right back up* when the baby was born, of course.)

Anyway, I would just pay attention to your body and if you don't see signs of preterm labor, I just wouldn't worry about it.

Also, by the time you get to 36ish weeks, if you go into labor at, say 37 weeks, I don't know that it would be accurate to attribute that to breastfeeding--in fact, I would highly doubt it. At least in my experience, nursing didn't produce the kind of contractions that were going to put me into labor (let alone preterm labor). I suppose it could encourage an already-going-to-happen labor--but think of some of the other ways we can "encourage labor"--sex, walks, et cetera--we don't abstain from them during a normal pregnancy, because they don't *cause* labor. But they might help to encourage labor to happen, if the time is really right.

I'm currently tandem nursing 3.5yo dd1 and 18mo dd2. I nursed all the way through dd2's pregnancy though we did night wean a few months into the pregnancy... I had no night supply (which meant dd1 would latch on in her sleep, there was no milk, she'd wake up and scream bloody murder) and it hurt!

This time round my body seems to be doing something similar... during the day breastfeeding feels a bit rough but generally ok (and dd2 nurses probably 5-7x a day). At night breastfeeding is still ok except during let down. And then it feels like broken glass is getting squeezed out my nipple. It is really painful for about 1-2 minutes, then goes back to just a sort of slightly uncomfortable ache. I remember this happening last time too... after a few weeks of painful letdown it became all painful and no letdown.

DH and I are thinking that we'll gently encourage dd2 to nightwean as well (we used the No Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and a very modified Dr Gordon plan with dd1 and helped her nightwean over the course of about 2 months).

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My vbac OB was a LLL leader for years (as well as an OB who did an internship with Ina May Gaskin) and she felt that as long as the mama didn't have a history of pre term labor or other serious medical concerns there was no "biological/medical" reason not to nurse as long as mom was eating a well balanced and complete diet with some sort of back up supplement. She explained pregnancy breastfeeding and self weaning like this...

Breastmilk is a supply/demand product... nursling nurses more, there is more milk. But this process is controled by hormones and during pregnancy the "pregnancy hormones" trump the "nursing hormones". So even if the nursling nurses more, the system can't go beyond what the pregnancy hormones will allow.

In early pregnancy the milk volume tends to drop, and the taste/composition changes (saltier, more minerals). Some nurslings just don't like the new flavor and the extra work required to get as much as they want, and they self wean.

By the end of the pregnancy the taste/composition changes again (begins shifting to the newborn milk, so thicker and fattier) and nurslings who kept going despite the earlier changes may decide to wean now. (be prepared for an older nursling to chunk up a bit when the new babe arrives... they're essentially moving from skim milk to ice cream :lol)

For some reason that last bit never occured to me and I was actually a bit worried when dd1 gained a whole pound right after dd2 arrived... I mean she was/is totally healthy and active and in love with her little sister but all of a sudden she had "baby rolls" of her own!

My 3 year old is still nursing, but I am not experiencing much pain. My last pregnancy, which ended in miscarriage at 11 weeks, I experienced horrible nipple pain from conception on. This time, at 5 weeks I only have sore breast and no nipple pain. I imagine it will start closer to 6 weeks, though I have been getting a lot of acupuncture so my system may be more balanced with thus less nipple pain and symptoms.
Ds has commented that my supply has dropped though, but he just keeps on nursing anyway.

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Oh the pain so so bad. I was planning on nursing through the whole pregnancy, but I am weaning as soon as possible. I just can't possibly put myself through anymore pain than morning sickness. Nursing is so painful now. We are FINISHED!!!!

Sorry if that sounds selfish, but I just can't do it. I hope I am not a bad mom weaning already.