Did you BF while pregnant? Why or why not? How was your supply? How old was your LO?
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I'm new to BF while pregnant (only about 9 weeks now) but I have cut down to 2 sessions for my 10 month old. One session when she first wakes up, both breasts and right before bedtime, both breasts. At meal and snack I give her cups of milk. I'm using our freezer stash. I have about 2 - 3 months of milk in my stash. My goal is to make it until she turns 1 year which is luckily not that far off, 2 months.
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Only for a few months. DD1 was already almost two when we found out. I had no interest in tandem nursing and DH and I had previously agreed 2 years was our comfort level. So I weaned her around 25m. We were already down to two sessions at that point so I slowly cut out the morning then the bedtime session. It did hurt for a week or so at the beginning but that part quickly stopped. And I'm almost positive she was just comfort nursing at that point.
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Only for a couple months. Xander was over one and we were only nursing once a day anyway by then, so he self-weaned shortly after I got pregnant.
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I bfed all the way through my last pregnancy. My LO was 13 months when I got pregnant and still nursed very frequently. She nursed until 2, so a couple of months after my new one was born. My supply was totally fine the entire time, unless I was dehydrated enough to need IV fluids.
ETA: I nursed through pregnancy because my LO was still nursingg and I believed in self-weaning. I weaned at 2 because she stopped eating solids and nursed more than the newborn after the baby was born. I waited to see if was a passing phase, and after a few months it seemed like it wasn't. I didn't want to nurse a newborn and a toddler on the go all the time, so something needed to be done.
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LO was 14 months when I got pregnant and I was still breastfeeding 3-4 times a day. We continued for a month and then she completely weaned herself. I think pregnancy must have changed the taste of my milk. It worked well up to that point, though...
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I did until the end. Dd was 12 months old when I got pregnant, I dried up when I was 3ish months pregnant. I ended up tandem nursing for 8 months.
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I did for a few months until I dried up. My son was 13 months when I got pregnant.
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I found out I was pregnant when LO was 11.5 months old....we nursed about twice a day until about 14 months, then we were down to once but since she only took one breast at a time, plus the pregnancy hormones my nipples were feeling pretty sensitive at that point and I started hating to nurse her so we weaned at 15 months. It's totally doable!
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I am doing it right now at 7ish weeks but would like to stop soon as it has gotten painful and I'm approaching my comfort limit with LO's age. I was really hoping she'd wean on her own by age 2 but that's only a few weeks away at this point so I think I'm going to have to wean her soon. We've been down to one session for at least 6 months now so I hope it won't be too hard on her.
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I did, but only for about a month. I got pregnant right around his first birthday and he was close to self-weaning by that point. I didn't notice any supply issues related to pregnancy, but I was only 8-10 weeks when we weaned.
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I nursed for the first four months of my pregnancy, and weaned LO when she was around 20 months old. My supply seemed fine (although I always had an abundant supply/oversupply) and it didn't seem to be any different.
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I nursed for 5 months of my second pregnancy before weaning DD1 (who was 19 months at the time). I didn't dry up and she wanted to continue nursing, but as soon as I was pregnant, nursing became so painful for me. It felt like it had in the newborn days, and what had been my favorite time with her (nursing and snuggling with her) quickly became something I tolerated and began to resent. I'm embarrassed to say that, but it's definitely how I felt. She was still nursing 4-5 times a day at 14 months when I got pregnant. I was sad that it determined the end of our nursing relationship, but of course everything turned out fine.
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DD2 was almost four months old when we conceived DD3. She was EBF and doing well. I didn't know about the pregnancy until she was almost six months old. She had started nursing more frequently but for shorter periods. She went from STTN to waking 2-3 times to eat. I blamed it on the four month regression.
After a few weeks of her increased nursing I realized she wasn't gaining weight. In a month she went from 60% to 12%. We started solids and now she's back over 60%.
I'm still nursing now at eight months but the majority of her intake is from solids. She outright refused any formula we tried but will drink WCM from a sippy.
I nurse her three or four times a day, but I know there's not much there. I could quit and she be fine with it, but I'm not ready. I have a lot of guilt around not giving her as much BM as I did DD1 (BFed for 15 months). I'm hoping DD2 will continue nursing until the baby is born and will then get more milk when my milk comes in again.
Sorry for the novel.
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@oliviaoblivia: That's interesting! I noticed D's feedings got less and less, like less than 5 minutes. I didn't see how she was getting much out of it so I'm trying BM in a cup. She HATES formula so I know that's not an option. I hadn't considered WCM. Right now, I'm guessing she's getting most of her calories from solids. I feed her a TON!
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@BandDmommy: I hadn't planned on offering WCM, but she grabbed DD1's cup and chugged it. I talked with our ped about giving WCM so early and he said some pediatricians suggest starting to introduce it at nine months so we're just going with it.
She does eat a ton of solids. Breakfast today was two scrambled eggs, a piece of toast, a pear, half a banana, and maybe three ounces of milk. -
@oliviaoblivia: that's impressive! Interesting about WCM, I'm heading to pediatrician today for flu shots, I think I'll mention it. I have a stash of frozen milk but I don't plan on pumping anymore.
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I am 23 weeks pregnant and my first child is 12 months old. I still breastfeed a lot during the day. Going fine so far... see no reason to stop.
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LO was 2.5 when I got pregnant this spring. She nursed for 7 weeks until I had a loss at 11w. I had a lot of pain with it but no supply issues, we were nursing 2x a day.
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Just for the first two months. My LO was 7 months old when I got my BFP and my supply went down drastically after that.
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So, right now, R is nursing MOTN or early morning (between 3-5 am) theb sometimes when awake for the day...then before both naps and then again before bed....he seems to have cut the late afternoon session so I'm offering a bottle or a sippy of BM then. He's only 9 months, 1 week so I think he still needs at least 4-5 sessions a day at this point?
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@winniebee: I would think 4 - 5.
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My big girl nursed right through my second pregnancy but my milk dried up at around 17 weeks. Miss A was about 22 months when we fell pregnant so wasn't really relying on breastmilk as her main source of nutrition and we only nursed before her nap.
These days Miss A only nurses before bed at night and I'm not even remotely interested in feeding both kids at the same time!
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I nursed through my whole pregnancy with LO2. It was pretty uncomfortable and I got LO1 from 4 times/day down to once a day before bed within the first three months or so. I went on to tandem nurse until LO1 was 3.
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i didn't because i quit BFing after 2 months of TTC and having a short luteal phase. DS was also 2 years and 2 months by then, so at most i would have let him self-wean but probably stopped soon after anyway. I think it's great if people can do it.
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I did for a few months. I got pregnant when LO1 was ten months old and we continued on for another three months. I quit when I was about 12 weeks pregnant, mainly because I was really struggling with being constantly exhausted and I thought maybe that was my body's way of saying it couldn't cope with feeding one baby whilst growing another. Or just first trimester exhaustion, who knows!
My goal had been to make it to a year anyway, so quitting at 13 months was perfectly fine with me! I also had zero intentions of tandem feeding, so the bigger the gap between weaning and the arrival of the new baby, the better.....
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Yes, my little one was 15 months when I got pregnant and was still nursing quite a bit. I didn't want to wean him before 2 unless he was ready, so I kept nursing. It was fairly painful for about a week but then it was ok again. I noticed my supply dropped a lot and LO started eating a lot more solids! I'm not 100% sure of the causal direction here.
Later in pregnancy my supply disappeared and then I started producing colostrum. LO1 had no problem nursing through it all. LO2 arrived last week so now we're figuring out how to make tandem nursing work for us.
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I'm pregnant and still bfing my 26 month old. He nurses after he wakes, at nap and Bedtime. I'm thinking of starting to wean him. I'm slowing limiting his time at breast in the morning and at bedtime. Nursing did hurt really bad for about 3-4 weeks and now it's fine. I'm not going to tandem nurse so my goal is to wean him shortly.
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I bf #1 for 3 months while pregnant with #2. I stopped when #1 was 12 months because I had to go back to work and with my work schedule it made it difficult. I was also very very tired and the dr suggested that if I stopped bf'ing then I might have more energy. My supply wasn't affected at all.
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