Breastfeeding General Chatter #14

Congratulations Laranna! Same thing happened with me - DS weaned at 22 months when I was pregnant with DD.

Enjoy your time off ;).

Well I'm now a tandem feeding mumma!
Poppy has been great with her feeding and being able to latch despite the engorgement

Well, we're just starting out and things so far have been going really well. I've had a little bit of a cracked nipple on one side, but that's healing nicely and Alex is such a settled cruisy baby it's incredible :)

Looking forward to getting to know you all as time goes by...

I have a question, so I'll give kind of an overview of what we're doing, then see what you girls think :)

Sammy isn't feeding to sleep as much, he feeds then starts to wake up and fuss a bit, so I flip him onto his side and snuggle with him (which is how we co-sleep when that happens) and he drifts off. It takes longer though. We're down to 6 feeds a day from a gazillion. Still feeding overnight, usually once, although he does a every 2 hour wake up about twice a fortnight (oh how I love those nights, pfft).

SO, I'm thinking it's time to move him into his own room. I feel like he's confident and can handle it, and I'm feeling the need for some more space. Plus DH snores and it's waking DS. I did think about moving DH out, but he's capable of objecting more. And he'll stop making me dinner.

The thing is, although Sammy's not feeding to sleep as much during the day, I still feed him back to sleep at night, usually lying down. DH can get him back to sleep, but again it takes longer. And if he wakes before 5 we co-sleep, because experience has taught me that it's the only way he'll go back to sleep and I'm not a starting the day at 5am kind of person. Really not.

So, how do I go about this? I know that I want to do it, but really stuck as to how it happens. Anyone else have a breastfed, still waking at night, sometime co-sleeping bubba in their own room, who's used to feeding to sleep lying down?

Haven't had the experience myself yet Kitfaerie but something I've seen others do is to have a mattress on the floor in bub's room next to bub's bed - somewhere to lay down and feed if necessary or if it's close to morning you can choose whether to use that or bring him in to your room.

Yeah, I'd suggest a mattress on floor. Maybe sleep there together for a while then start leaving him and see how you go.

Random observation for today - so much of the bf-ing promotional stuff I've received say that bf-ing is free...well ok, technically it is, but the extra food I'm scoffing every 5 minutes certainly isn't! I am soooooo hungry at the moment it's quite crazy actually, and considering I'm trying to keep the extra snacking relatively healthy it gets pricey. Oh well, it's a good excuse to eat cherries :)

:wall: Can someone please inform my daughter that she doesn't need to involve her whole body in feeds? She doesn't need to have her hands pinching and pulling, her legs don't have to be moving... In fact, it's better for both of us if she stays calm! Who knew?


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If it works, can you please tell my son as well? And add in that trying to crawl away, stand up or climb onto Mummy's head while attempting to stay attached are also no-goers.

(Thanks for the advice about the mattress, gonna give it a shot in the next week or so!)

DD is feeding constantly! Its exhausting and she's not sleeping at night just want boob ALL night I'm stuffed. Doesn't help that I'm pregnant and tired anyway and I worry what I'm going to do when Bub arrives because it won't work having them both in bed there's no room an DD is so rough it'd be unsafe for Bub.

I try taking her off at night and she screams the house down, oh help what have I created!

Hi Ladies!

Em........can I make a suggestion to try and get your DD onto a comforter? Just put it with her and you whenever you feed and hopefully after a while she will hold onto it while also feeding and then gradually become attached to it and that will be the beginning of her being comforted from that rather than the boob? That's the only thing I can think of because you want the BFing relationship with her to continue. Good Luck hun.

I'll second and third and so on the whole not moving around thing while feeding. DS is only 9 weeks old (tomorrow) and has already taken to kicking the bed since his legs touch it when he feeds.

Hey CrankyKitten - how are you going??

Our BFing journey is going really well. DS is only doing 1 or 2 wakeups overnight though (please don't throw things at me!) and I thought my boobs would be rock hard and killing but they've adjusted really well. I got scared there wasn't enough milk but of course there is as he is sleeping and feeding happily but I'm able to express fairly large amounts (over 150mls) each time so I would guess my milk has just settled. To minimise the number of EBM bottles he gets a day DH has been bringing him to me at work to feed which is working out really well too. I am just loving BFing again - it rocks.

All going well if a little hot and sticky. Alex cluster feeds between 5pm and 8 or 9pm then sleeps till about 1 or 2am or so, which means if I go to bed shortly after 9 I get a decent sleep too :)

I seem to be completely unable to express any more than a few ml at once though - I'm not overly fussed as no plans on going back to work or anything for a while, but it would be nice to be able to build up a bit of a stash for later if I want to go out. Will keep trying now and then I guess...

The ABA website has a new look! Australian Breastfeeding Association

it's sw@nky, isn't it?

Em! You poor thing. IT could be an age/developmental thing, though I know she's been like that most of the time anyway, hasn't she? Do you get help from your partner at night? Sounds like he's going to have to take her on once the baby is there anyway :hug: I hope you can find some time to get some rest

I pumped 250mls this morning, 125mls each side, for comfort! That was after Miss P had her feed, no wonder she can't drain them

Madb: yep she's been like this most of the time she's just ramped it up and I guess I notice it more now I'm pregnant. DH doesn't help overnight so I'm on my own. But he does take her for a drive when he gets home from work if it's not to late so I can have some time out.

Random observation while I was shopping for tops yesterday - why is it that most of the tops in major stores that are sold as "breast-feeding tops" are also designed to accomodate a bump? I mean, ok my belly is still a little flabby, but baby out and needing access for feeds means I don't still have a watermelon under my t-shirt!

I don't know, but they are working for me at the moment cos i have a big bump and still breastfeeding my LO. :lol: