I'm upstairs, again. Everyone sitting down to eat, hoping I can get this babe to sleep!
This is going to be the story again Saturday at another family party, I'll be nursing in another room half the time. I really need this kid to take a bottle!!!!
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@hellobeeboston: That was me last Christmas! Hang in there!!!
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That was me at Christmas with the in laws 2 weeks ago.
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Me! At least it's my own room. Baby is a week old today and mil and Bil have been here all day. Honestly I don't mind the alone time. Sometimes I need a break too. They are all making dinner and entertaining the toddler.
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That was me last year too, @FaithFertility: . They were nursing ALL THE TIME a year ago. Hang in there @hellobeeboston: it gets better!
I was back to nursing by myself today at my DH's family party, but mostly because I needed a break! My daughter was like "nurse?" and I'm like heck yeah, let's go find a quiet room!
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@hellobeeboston: I should say my kid has a knack for being ready to eat as soon as hot food is ready. In the hospital I had ONE meal arrive hot as she was actually sleeping- and the in house pediatrician came in and examined her and pissed her off so I had to let me meal get cold yet again.
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@Foodnerd81: so true! There are def times I don't mind it. I remember doing this with my 3yo.
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@Foodnerd81: yes!!!! It's like they know when food is ready and they don't want us to have it!!
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This was my a couple years ago. And agree to them always being hungry RIGHT at dinner time!
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@Mrs. Champagne: I guess they just know it's dinner time.
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@hellobeeboston: It can definitely be isolating! I ended up buying a covered goods nursing cover and just started nursing through whatever was going on so I didn't have to keep missing things. Still trying to wean my 15m old, and he never did take a bottle.
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@Boogs: assuming you didn't do daycare if no bottle??
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Not this year, but this is how I felt when I had all family descend at once several weeks after LO was born (now 3.5 years). I felt so isolated, but I was still so uncomfortable and clumsy with BF, I kept nursing in his room, and I felt like I was missing everything. Never got hot food - ha!
Is there any way you'd be ok nursing with a cover/blanket in the corner of the room where everyone else is?
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I have a house full of guests and just feel stuck at the pump !!
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@pregnantbee: not with this group, but the group on Saturday I will, I think. Part of being isolated was also that he seemed overwhelmed with the noise and needed some quiet.
Why do family gatherings take soooooooo long sometimes. 2.5 hours waiting for dinner. Then present opening just took 1.5 hrs (after 45 min trying to get everyone in one room), no dessert still but it's 8:45 and I have a 3yo and an infant!! Let's move it along!! Even the 8 yo's are fading.
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@MrsYellowJacket: booooo. I'm jealous your LO drinks from a bottle though.
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@hellobeeboston: we just have Dh and me, mil, Bil, and our two LOs and everything still took forever. The 2 year old is just going to bed now. Hoping this doesn't mean an extra early wake up.
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@hellobeeboston: No, I SAH. We got lazy in the beginning because it was easier. Then I totally screwed myself. Super hard to always have a timer on you!
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I have no problem whipping out the boob at a party, but LO is so distracted these days I can't even so much as have a conversation with DH without her popping off and whipping around to check out the surroundings. So this is going to be me tomorrow. I had to nurse her in a hotel lobby bar today after we viewed the downtown gingerbread village and she was off every ten seconds to look at something. Thanks baby, I wanted everybody in the city to see my nipple on Christmas Eve.
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Honestly one of the reasons I didn't want to nurse was MIL always in my house and never feeling privacy. (This was like 1% of the reason, though.) so I feel for you. Even pumping for awhile was frustrating in terms of privacy. Even bottle feeding my fussy first baby was tough with the holidays. Hope your lo cooperates!
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Please consider just nursing in "public". There is no need to sequester yourself unless it's necessary for your child (e.g., you are trying to get them to sleep, and being around other people is too distracting).
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I remember those days! Though honestly now I miss the excuse to sneak away...
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Totally nursing away frim the crowd......and dishes!!
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@ElbieKay: I don't mind nursing in front of people, but both of my children had/have a hard time with noise and distraction while eating, so I am pretty much always isolated. Hoping my 4.5 month old grows out of it so I can join civilization again!
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I'm sequestered in my IL's bedroom right now, because this is the only place I could get 4.5month old DS to sleep...and eat! Christmas is very distracting!
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Me too! I'm at my parents' in my old bedroom trying to get DD to sleep. Ahhh... first bit of quiet I've had all day. I'm loving it!
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@JennyG: it's definitely a good excuse to avoid dishes!! Ooh sorry the baby is hungry again!
I'm actually welcoming the quiet time. I will happily nurse in public but do feel weird around bils. But the baby is still so little we need quiet to focus on it.
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@JennyG: getting out of dishes is an ex Ellen's perk!!!
@ElbieKay: yeah not possible for me in that situation for various reasons and it was very loud in a tiny house.
@Mrs. J: yes!! My almost 3 month old is already very distracted, he needs quiet and I'm not allowed to talk haha.
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I nurse pretty much everywhere. I do the up/down shirt method so it's fairly discreet. And now my son doesn't get distracted too much, so I don't have to miss much. We'll see how long that lasts.
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I just nursed at the dinner table and through whatever was happening. My 3 month old eats so frequently, if I left to nurse her, I'd miss out on everything!
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: that's how I was with C- she was actually relatively easy to bring out to dinner as long as I order something that could be eaten one handed. I had a friend have to cut up my food like a toddler once though.
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@Foodnerd81: @Rainbow Sprinkles: Once DS was around 3 months, I did that as well. I would try to time it out so I could still eat with my right hand. DH would cut my meat up too!
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