https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 22 May 2026 19:43:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/easy-method-and-extended-bfing#post-1169812 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:35:16 +0000 Kemma 1169812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: she has certain times of the day that she likes to nurse (3-4pm like clockwork!) otherwise I can tell from her level of crankiness :-) she'll also slip her hand down my shirt or head butt my chest! She will go 5-6 hours without nursing if we're busy and she's distracted.</p> <p>@mrskc: A does this happy laugh / cry thing when I ask her if she'd like some "drinks" - it makes me feel wanted! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/easy-method-and-extended-bfing#post-1169213 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:07:53 +0000 mrskc 1169213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kemma: lol! She can undue your clips?! too funny. </p> <p>@birdofafeather: you'll figure it out! I feel like I always stress about the next stage and it just all ends up working out with out me thinking much about it. </p> <p>@hilsy85: A is the same way! He used to be so distracted but now I can talk to DH while he nurses and he just keeps at it. He's nursing so much better. I am also realizing he is a little boob monster. I thought he would do ok with out it but he whines and bangs my chest when he wants to nurse. And he gets super happy when he hears the word milk and I do the sign. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/easy-method-and-extended-bfing#post-1169104 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:28:06 +0000 hilsy85 1169104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: My LO was the same way from months 4-9/10--he was super distracted, and in fact I always thought he could take or leave nursing. But over the last month, I've found that he REALLY seems into nursing and will get upset if he can't or if I take him off before he pops off, and he will even nurse quietly in public!! I now am not really sure how weaning would go if I wanted to do it now... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/easy-method-and-extended-bfing#post-1168998 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:05:21 +0000 birdofafeather 1168998@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrskc: i guess i'm jumping the gun because who knows how often she'll be feeding, but i guess i don't want to purposefully wean. and i know it won't be immediate at 12 months that she'll flip a switch either! i definitely want to be able to stop pumping after 12 months and hopefully before since i'm an infrequent pumper anyway (WAHM and only pump during weddings/shoots)</p> <p>@hilsy85: your other thread is helping me imagine it a ton! thanks for starting that! i think we'll do the don't offer/refuse thing later on once i am sure her nutritional needs are being met and i'm okay with her weaning! she likes nursing, but she's very distracted and unless i keep her in a dark, quiet place during the day sessions, she's on and off the boob!</p> <p>@Kemma: since we're more on a routine, i'm not as familiar with the demand portion anymore. does she just sign to you or how does she "demand" it, if that makes sense? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/easy-method-and-extended-bfing#post-1167527 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 03:22:11 +0000 Kemma 1167527@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO has just turned one and she's still feeding on demand 6-10 times a day.</p> <p>On a good day she'll feed at roughly 0700, 0930, 1100 (nurse to sleep), 1500, 1700, 1900 (nurse to sleep) and once or twice overnight. When she was on two naps (1000 and 1500) she swapped her lunchtime nursing session for solids.</p> <p>My LO is a big comfort sucker though so she'll often have a few drive by sessions in the later afternoon.</p> <p>@mrskc: @hilsy85: Miss A has worked out how to under my clips and loves to put her hand down my shirt! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/easy-method-and-extended-bfing#post-1167293 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:39:42 +0000 hilsy85 1167293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrskc: ha yeah I was trying to do the milk sign for a while, but gave him. He does know what I mean when I say milk and point to my chest though, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/easy-method-and-extended-bfing#post-1167290 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:39:06 +0000 mrskc 1167290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: haha DS will bang my chest or bury his face in it when he wants to nurse. I've been doing the sign for milk but he hasn't done it yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/easy-method-and-extended-bfing#post-1167244 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:03:44 +0000 hilsy85 1167244@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Like @mrskc: it hasn't really changed much for us (my LO also just turned 1). He is still nursing about 5x a day--wake up, before each nap, and sometimes after each nap, and before bed. MOTN feeding occasionally. </p> <p>I think it really depends on how much you want to nurse during the day. You could do the "don't offer, don't refuse" if you want to cut back, where you just don't offer at a usual nursing session and see what she does. FWIW, I also thought my LO had no way of telling me he wanted to nurse, but I realized that he hits my chest when he wants to (lovely I know, lol). Or, if you're fine with the volume of nursing, you can just continue to offer as you are now--when she doesn't want it, she'll just refuse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/easy-method-and-extended-bfing#post-1166853 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:25:31 +0000 mrskc 1166853@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>well my son JUST turned one and I'm trying to figure this all out. I'm hoping to have him on cow's milk during the day and nurse morning and night since I would like to stop pumping at work. </p> <p>Things aren't really going to change right when she turns one. You may find that sticking to what you're doing now will still work. Unless you're wanting to BF less? Maybe you would start offering nursing after meals instead of right after she wakes from her nap. so after she wakes from her nap, depending on time she would get a snack or a meal and then you would offer her to nurse afterwards or offer cows milk. OR maybe instead of nursing after she wakes, you would offer a sippy of cows milk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/easy-method-and-extended-bfing#post-1166835 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:15:35 +0000 birdofafeather 1166835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>so i have some time before DD is 1 (she's 9 months now), but i've been thinking about how BFing is going to work after 1. we've always gone by the EASY method and that suits us well. she is on 2 naps a day, feeds morning, after each nap (maybe 1 time before the 2nd nap if she seems like it will extend nap 2), before bedtime and once overnight. so about 5-6 times in 24 hours.</p> <p>i imagine she'll be on 2 naps for a while and hopefully will drop the MOTN feed soon, so by 12 months, we'll be BFing 4x a day. i'm open to BFing as long as she wants up to 18m-2 years, so i don't want to actively wean, but i'm wondering what it looks like when LO doesn't "need" milk and will be progressively eating more solids. currently she can't really signal that she wants milk (sometimes grabbing at my shirt if she's tired) but maybe she can at 12 months and that's what i go by?</p> <p>can anyone offer insight on BFing past 12 months when you were on the EASY routine (or not, but i just wanted to give or background that we're not feeding all times of the day!) </p>