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@NurseMommy: Is your LO in daycare? We nurse on demand, but my LO always wants to eat more frequently than every 3 hours during the day (usually closer to every 2 hours). I am fine with that now, but she's starting daycare when she's 6 months old (she's 4 months now) so I am worried about what her feeding schedule will be like then.
@Foodnerd81: I feel like I should stop nursing to sleep but it's a hard decision to make because it's one of my favorite parts of the day. She almost always still falls asleep nursing. Tonight she didn't so I just gave her a kiss and put her down. She chewed on her hands for a few min then fell asleep. She's proven several times that she can put herself to sleep if she needs to, so maybe I shouldn't stress about it too much?
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@lawbee11: no, she isn't in daycare yet - not until 11.5 months. She has gradually lengthened the time that she goes without eating, and solids have helped. I would ask your daycare what their policy is and go off that. I response to your response to @foodnerd, we sometimes nurse to sleep because I love it too, but she goes down easily for naps and bedtime without it as well. I just didn't stress about it (after that one awful week).
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Oh, goodness. I still don't know what exactly contributed to my low supply - it was a perfect storm, I think. I did everything you were supposed to do, and we still struggled, so I'm not sure. I will at least know this time around all the supplements & foods that are lactogenic so I can start those right away. I will also be vigilant about drugs in the hospital since I'm convinced that got us off to a rough start (I had a C-section). Hopefully I will have a VBAC and can do skin to skin right away, but who knows!
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@lawbee11: I wouldn't stress about it too much! I think just like with everything else, every baby is different. For every person who swears they'll never nurse to sleep again there is someone who has nursed to sleep and their LO STTN no problems ya know?
I wish I had bought better fitting nursing tanks/bras earlier on this time, but next time I'll have mine and hopefully they'll still work
Otherwise, SO thankful and lucky and happy with how our breastfeeding relationship has been. Slowly weaning at 12m now, and its bittersweet.
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I'm doing this right now with my 6 day old DD! She is a completely different nurser than her big brother. I am having way less nipple pain, she does not have a tongue tie and she was able to latch more or less correctly from the get-go. She's also fast. DS would easily spend 30-45min on the boob. She's at about 10 max. I don't know how much of it is her and how much if it is me, but so far the nursing experience has been much better and way less stressful. I do need to work on building up a stash though. I rented a pump from the hospital, but it is only a single.
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We've had a pretty good go of it so far (lo is almost 10 mos). I feel like I should say I'll actually introduce a bottle but I really don't like pumping so idk. I think the biggest thing will be to acknowledge that number two will be different because number one will also be there, and to open myself up to the possibility that I might make different choices out of necessity. As tough as it is to be chained to the couch for months, it's also a luxury I may not have the second time around.
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@JerricaBenton: This is pretty much everything I was thinking, too. I'd offer a bottle, but I hate pumping, so I'm not really wanting to have to introduce one. I also know things will be different, since DS is here...but he's at school during the day, so it might not be that much of a change.
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@Dandelion: yes that's really one of the main reasons I want to wait until lo can do some preschool program to have another. I'm hoping that'll give me the best shot at giving no. 2 the same kind of breastfeeding relationship I have with LO now.
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I would save/freeze more milk. Early on, as I was learning to use the pump, I'd put the milk in the fridge and we'd throw it away after a few days!
I'm not sure what the problem with nursing to sleep is for others, but for us it works great and I'm grateful that I can nurse him down for naps and at bedtime.
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Try harder to get her to latch (at the tiem I was so overwelmed I just pumped and I think that's was just too much for me.)
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Have LO checked for a lip/tongue tie immediately in the hospital following birth.
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@lawbee11: if she is able to go to sleep without being nursed to sleep, but you both prefer doing it, why change it?? C wasn't able to fall asleep without that or being bounced for 30 minutes or more, and Half the time she woke up anyway when we tried to put her down. That just wasn't sustainable. Now that she goes to sleep for naps and bedtime on her own, I actually enjoy nursing her back to sleep in the middle of the night! Like, it makes me mind being up at 2 and 5 am a little bit less! But if it's working for you I don't think you shoul ever feel like you should stop it.
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I also wouldn't worry about nursing to sleep. Other than that, nothing really! I feel very lucky to be having a good bf'ing experience with my LO.
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Oh, I forgot, I would ALWAYS triple check the freezer to make sure I don't lose over 250 oz. of stored milk.
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I would speak up and say no to the nipple shield. The LC i used took one look at me and without even trying to get DD to latch said I needed to use one. Using the shield made nursing in public next to impossible and destroyed my initial confidence. It took 6 months to wean her off it so if possible would never use it again!
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I also would try not to nurse to sleep. I've always enjoyed it and the first 4 months it worked well. But now at 9 months he's up MANY times a night and only wants boob!
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@Dagny: ACK!!!!
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Not stress about cluster feeding/growth spurts
Go to a local breastfeeding support group earlier, if I need help
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I will introduce a bottle early and more often. DD only had 2 in her life because she just would not take one. That's really the only thing. Nursing came naturally for us both, and still does.
Otherwise, SO thankful and lucky and happy with how our breastfeeding relationship has been. Slowly weaning at 12m now, and its bittersweet.
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