Annette&Aden
10-29-2004, 10:02 AM
Hello all!
I'm new to this board. I'm usually over on the diaper board! Just found out I'm expecting #2 sometime at the end of May I think. DS#1 is 9.5 months old. I do not want him to wean and I'm fine with nursing my entire pregnancy. The thing that's driving me absolutely bonkers is that he nurses ALL. NIGHT. LONG. I swear, up until a few weeks ago, he was doing just great spending most of the night asleep in his own corner of the bed and I could sleep on my tummy and only had to roll over and nurse him once or twice a night. But since I found out that I'm pregnant, he has been latched on all night long. He nurses to sleep at about 8 or so every night. From there on out, he wakes every hour and has to be nursed again until I go to bed and then when I do, he finds me and has to be on the boob all night. Part of that time, he will wake partially and latch on and off repeatedly rolling around in the bed and crying a little and then coming back.
I'm in first trimester hell and I'm exhausted! I was miserable last night and kept waking up needing to pee and I couldn't get away without him waking up completely and then he'd lay there and scream while I run to the bathroom and run back. (DH isn't sleeping with us right now, he's in the guest room.) I'm feeling really resentful of the all night long nursing sessions but I don't know what, if anything, I can do about it. I don't want DS to wean early and I'm afraid if I night weaned him, he might end up weaning during the day too. He doesn't take in that much solids though. Mostly just plays with food still and drops it in his lap. Also, just out of curiosity a few times the last couple of nights, I have gotten up out of bed with him and tried to rock or walk him instead of nursing and it totally doesn't work. He freaks out and screams and throws his body away from me and practically back flips into the floor. So I don't think he's at all ready for night weaning.
I guess I'm just venting. Tell me I will survive this!
I'm new to this board. I'm usually over on the diaper board! Just found out I'm expecting #2 sometime at the end of May I think. DS#1 is 9.5 months old. I do not want him to wean and I'm fine with nursing my entire pregnancy. The thing that's driving me absolutely bonkers is that he nurses ALL. NIGHT. LONG. I swear, up until a few weeks ago, he was doing just great spending most of the night asleep in his own corner of the bed and I could sleep on my tummy and only had to roll over and nurse him once or twice a night. But since I found out that I'm pregnant, he has been latched on all night long. He nurses to sleep at about 8 or so every night. From there on out, he wakes every hour and has to be nursed again until I go to bed and then when I do, he finds me and has to be on the boob all night. Part of that time, he will wake partially and latch on and off repeatedly rolling around in the bed and crying a little and then coming back.
I'm in first trimester hell and I'm exhausted! I was miserable last night and kept waking up needing to pee and I couldn't get away without him waking up completely and then he'd lay there and scream while I run to the bathroom and run back. (DH isn't sleeping with us right now, he's in the guest room.) I'm feeling really resentful of the all night long nursing sessions but I don't know what, if anything, I can do about it. I don't want DS to wean early and I'm afraid if I night weaned him, he might end up weaning during the day too. He doesn't take in that much solids though. Mostly just plays with food still and drops it in his lap. Also, just out of curiosity a few times the last couple of nights, I have gotten up out of bed with him and tried to rock or walk him instead of nursing and it totally doesn't work. He freaks out and screams and throws his body away from me and practically back flips into the floor. So I don't think he's at all ready for night weaning.
I guess I'm just venting. Tell me I will survive this!