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Do you 'enjoy' spending time with your kids?
- Yes, most of the time we really have fun together
- Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's really dull and aggravating
- Honestly most of the time it's not fun at all, but it's not supposed to be fun
- I really don't enjoy it at all, and wish I could spend less time with them
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what in the hell is wrong with you? 4 and half years? How did DC go to school? What are you going to do about college
[ Reply | More ]np: do people not realize that when an older child still BF, it's not an all day long, every 3 hours kind of thing. they might nurse in the AM and at bedtime, maybe before a nap, maybe in the middle of the night if they co-sleep, maybe if they're hurt or sick. when they are not with mom, then they don't. not like mom has to show up at preschool bc dc needs to eat!
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3.5 years - but this is with 2 DCs. Still bfing when I became pregnant with second DB. Quit nursing #1 a month before #2 was born. #2 nursed until he was 18 months.
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22 months, but quit pumping after 7 months and just breastfed morning and night. Does that count as breastfeeding or not? It didn't feel like much, though ds loved it (and I did too until the last couple of months).
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doesn't have to be Owww. oyu jsut train them not to bite...and its also not as bad as it sounds. more shocking than painful. each new tooth takes a day or two to adjust the latch then all is fine.
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because she didn't know that there are ways to prevent it, i assume, or because that was the goal she had in mind when she started. I say so from experience. one DD, about 12 teeth
[ Reply | More ]I'm the one who posted that I quit when he started getting teeth. I didn't know there was a way to work around that and had nobody to give me advice.
[ Reply | More ]I wouldn't say that being bitten is more "surprising" than "painful". My DD bit me a couple of times, and each time, it was painful, NOT surprising. Having said that, it was never as much a problem as I had anticipated, after all, all the teeth didn't come out at once AND they "bite" with their gums once in a while too.
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#1 2.3 years (at that point it was 5 minutes before bed). #1 is 15mo and still bfing 3 times a day
[ Reply | More ]only 3 months and was supplementing at the same time. DB was in nicu and I had supply problems.
[ Reply | More ]exclusively breastfed twins, one self-weaned at 13months and the other at 16months. honestly, hardest thing i've ever done in my life when they were between 6-9 months.
[ Reply | More ]Good for you!! I EBF my twins too. Had a singleton first and knew I could do it. The hardest part was fighting to get bf'ing established with them since pedi did not have confidence that any woman is capable of bf'ing twins. Like you, it got super hard again after I introduced solids at about 7 months. Nearing 13 months now and they only nurse in the evening before bed now.
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7 weeks -- was treated for thrush twice in that time. during the 4 weeks of thrush treatment, I had to pump - on low, it took forever! - and feed from bottles, since the thrush made it feel as if glass shards were tearing up my breasts. Both times, thrush only went away for a day before coming back. Met with lactation consultant and my dr, and tried everything, so when thrush came back a third time at week 7, we switched to formula. Weeks and weeks of crying in pain every time I pumped/fed had become unbearable, and tore dh apart too. The pain was worse than childbirth -- imagine someone shearing off your breast with a shard of glass and you'll understand. I'd planned to bf for 6 mos, fwiw.
[ Reply | More ]6 weeks. Also derailed on the BF front from thrush, at about 2.5 weeks when I was finally getting the hang of it with my boy who just never liked sucking anything it turned out (had trouble with bottles with him as well)! it took us over a month to get rid of his thrush. The pain was so terrible, and the pump never really let me get my supply established.
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How does DC self wean? Does he just wake up one day and decide not to nurse? I would really like for that to happen!
[ Reply | More ]that is exactly what happened with my dd at 8.5 months. i nursed her before bed one night, like always, but in the morning she wouldn't nurse. wouldn't open up her mouth for it. i kept trying until she started to cry, so i gave her a bottle. and that was the end of breast feeding!
[ Reply | More ]np: when babies do that so young, it is usually considered a nursing strike rather than early weaning. but since most moms do give some bottles already, they usually end up switching over to bottle feeding. child led weaning usually happens gradually. as a toddler gets more active, he/she doesn't want to sit still or stop playing to nurse and the length and frequency diminish. some go down to 1-2 sessions and then keep those for a really long time. very fwe moms do a true child led weaning though - most do a mom encouraged weaning.
[ Reply | More ]nnp I agree with you philosophically but I think "nursing strike" is just another arbitrary and self-serving term (even if it serves a cause I agree with). I do find that when most people say their kids "self-weaned" at 6 months, it later comes out that there were some pretty clear reasons WHY they did - ie/ moved out of the bed into the crib.
[ Reply | More ]IMO, if BM or formula is supposed to be the primary form of nutrition until 12 months, then I don't believe a db will self-wean prior to 12 months if there were no option for a bottle (BM or formula). That is why I consider it a nursing strike. If there were no such thing as a bottle then eventually db would get hungry and nurse again. It is only bc most of us have introduced a bottle (contents irrelevant) that when db refuses to nurse we think oh, now db wants the bottle instead. if db had never had a bottle... so to me, child-led weaning is when db no longer NEEDS to nurse. And I did not allow #1 to self wean and it's unlikely I'll allow #2 - after a year or so, I get kind of tired of the whole BF thing.
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27 months and counting, but its only once a day (in the morning when he wakes up) and when he's sick.
[ Reply | More ]Wow, I think this question was asked a year ago and most people responded with 0-6 months. And now many are nursing until right before the second b-day. A whole generation of babies close to their moms.
[ Reply | More ]Really? My dd is close to her mom and I only bf a few months. Guess what? It means nothing if you do it till 2 or not at all - all children will be close to their moms if their moms give them love. I find it repulsive that you are twisting this for a bfing agenda - and don't deny it
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