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I'm new to MDC and registered to have more support as I move into the realm of bf'ing an older baby/soon to be toddler. I want to do CLW, but I've had a few people comment that it is wrong to be encouraging my dd to nurse more if she wants to try and drop a feeding at 11months. I've heard true CLW doesn't happen until at least 2 or 3 yrs of age...
So I'm looking for some advice/insight/comments, basically anything you'd like to share. Right now my dd is nursing 5 or 6 times a day. She started sleeping through the night at 4 months when she found her thumb, and up until a few months ago nursed every 2 hrs all day. Now her pattern is to nurse whenever she wakes & before her naps/bedtime. Which works out to 6 times a day right now. Sometimes though she's not wanting to nurse when she wakes from her 2nd nap and I'm just not sure what to think.
We waited until 6 mos to intro solids and she only regularly gets 2 meals a day - or is offered solids twice anyways. For her a good meal is 2tbsps of cereal mixed in 1 oz of bm and 1.5 tbsps of a fruit puree or something similar. We give her a small sippy at one meal only - and not always, with 1/2 juice and 1/2 water. She maybe drinks 1oz out of that.
So I know she's not being filled up by the solids instead of bm, I'm just not sure what's going on. For those of you who've BTDT what should I be expecting in terms of nursing patterns etc as dd gets older. I envisioned her being a nursing machine for a couple of years before she started to drop feedings.
Am I just way off base?
So I'm looking for some advice/insight/comments, basically anything you'd like to share. Right now my dd is nursing 5 or 6 times a day. She started sleeping through the night at 4 months when she found her thumb, and up until a few months ago nursed every 2 hrs all day. Now her pattern is to nurse whenever she wakes & before her naps/bedtime. Which works out to 6 times a day right now. Sometimes though she's not wanting to nurse when she wakes from her 2nd nap and I'm just not sure what to think.
We waited until 6 mos to intro solids and she only regularly gets 2 meals a day - or is offered solids twice anyways. For her a good meal is 2tbsps of cereal mixed in 1 oz of bm and 1.5 tbsps of a fruit puree or something similar. We give her a small sippy at one meal only - and not always, with 1/2 juice and 1/2 water. She maybe drinks 1oz out of that.
So I know she's not being filled up by the solids instead of bm, I'm just not sure what's going on. For those of you who've BTDT what should I be expecting in terms of nursing patterns etc as dd gets older. I envisioned her being a nursing machine for a couple of years before she started to drop feedings.
Am I just way off base?
