Wow, she remembers.... 6mths on??

DD1 is now 28mths old and weaned off the breast around 22mths. She has since then often had a little suck here and there of my colostrum while pregnant but then would jump off my lap and say "all done". Anyway, since having my newest little girl 4 days ago, my milk has come in today in full steam (ouch!) and I am engorged BIG time!

I asked DD1 if she'd like to jump up and have a little suck and she was happy to, jumped on my lap and lay across me and had a few sucks. I expected this to be it, BUT she then swallowed. :o and swallowed, and swallowed and said "more?" and went back for more..... I couldn't believe it. She remembers how to coordinate her suck and to draw the milk out efficiently after 6mths of not really BF'ing anymore??

I thought babies/kids lost the ability to coordinate their suck shortly after weaning?? I know that children up to the age of about 7 (is it?) can efficiently breastfeed but I thought that for those who have weaned, it's hard for them to learn how to do it again?

It's like she never stopped Bf'ing :D

that's awesome :)

That's way better than a pump to get those engorged boobs feeling a bit better! :) Lovely, thanks for sharing :)

Aww how beautiful! Good luck on your new found journey! Tandem feeding is hard going and at times annoying and frustrating but rewarding!

Personally, I think it's a myth that babies forget how to suck - I am sure we could all figure it out if we were motivated enough. Congratulations on your new arrival

Warm Regards
Barb

Wow, that's pretty cool! Nothing like a toddler when you're engorged!


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Aww that's lovely Shanti :)

Oh, that's awesome! It was so so handy to have DD1 still feeding when I had DD2 to help with engorgement, otherwise I would have had the pump out every 10 minutes.

And I also just discovered something else great about tandem feeding. DD1 has just had a cold so when DD1 is sick and I feed her then I start making antibodies to what she's got and DD2 gets them. So DD2 never got sick even though it was impossible to keep DD1 away from her. It was awesome, there's nothing worse than a sick baby.

What a clever little chook you are Miss A :)

That's pretty awesome Shanti!

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that is a lovely story.

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Personally, I think it's a myth that babies forget how to suck - I am sure we could all figure it out if we were motivated enough.

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*cough* my DH is testament to that :redface:

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Rofl peanuttter!


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i have asked DD1 to do this a few times since having dd2....drains those huge boobies....thought i was getting mastitis the other day, got dd1 to drain the boob till it was totally empty!!! and it went!! the beauty of long term BFing i guess ;)
dont know about loosing the suck, i havnt heard that before, im sure thats just me though :redface:
congrats on your little gilr btw

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:rofl: well there ya go! Anyone can :lol:

She fed again this morning as she has a cold!

Brilliant! Such a handy thing to share the antibodies lol

That is awesome! What a great way to avoid mastitis too!

That's great! DS tried a couple of tiems but didn't even latch on. I was sort of happy about not feeding two, but sad at the same tiem. I do suspect that if he'd really wanted to then he would have :lol:

Thats awesome hun.

Amazing!!!!!!! :D

Thanks everyone :)

I asked again tonight and she said "ok!" and fed a little as i am so sore. Her little teeth feel sharp though so i have to remind her to have a wide mouth as she attaches otherwise its not comfy! She complies :lol:

I'm amazed.....

Hoping one or two feeds a day helps her fight this yucky cold she has :(

Its good though; she understands that booby is for the baby but she is allowed a few sucks when mummy asks if she wants to. Not really sure if we will get into tandem feeding.... Just for now its helping relieve the soreness :) better than connecting up the pump eh ;)

Cute! It's actually a really good thing that she weaned first, because she does have that understanding that it's for baby first. I always struggled with that, my two still try to claim them as their own.


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Yesterday afternoon, I was home with the 2 girls for the first time on my own (went well!) and DD1 saw DD2 feeding and said "Mummy can I please have some after Lillian's finished?" isn't that beautiful?????? I couldn't believe it.

She's had a little feed today but only few sucks then she was done.

That is so sweet :) Ewan has persisted with feeding at least once at night, sometimes more if he's sick, and I'm actually looking forward to having him there for engorgement! I was a milk machine with him, making enough for three, whenever I wasn't feeding I was icing my boobies trying to bring down supply! Even nipple shields did nothing to bring it down! so looking forward to having a toddler to bring me some relief (hopefully).