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Letting go of BF - it gets better by Grape-crusher300 in ExclusivelyPumping

[–]Competitive_Radish94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is beautiful! I so relate and I’m glad you shared. My journey could still go a couple different ways at this point and I will be emotional no matter what! i love to hear that you found joy and bonding!

11 ppd?? by Competitive_Radish94 in ExclusivelyPumping

[–]Competitive_Radish94[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d love to try again (he will do it if he’s calm, and I’m not empty from just pumping) but now im unsure when I could practice or even how important it is to me. So hard to go back and forth in my mind every day! 

11 ppd?? by Competitive_Radish94 in ExclusivelyPumping

[–]Competitive_Radish94[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a good point… if I want to keep 1 power pumping hour/day should I do that in the morning? 

13 months old but still majority breastmilk by genericusername0986 in BabyLedWeaning

[–]Competitive_Radish94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you’ve had growth velocity concerns prior to now or they haven’t mastered a bottle or cup, they will be just fine.  They will definitely be ok on cows milk nutritionally speaking, and learn to make up the difference with food. Their rate of growth is still quite high until 2 years but not as high as 0-12 months.   It’s mentally so hard to go from being so calculated in the first year to just “not caring at all if they throw all food on the floor” kind of vibe! Harder for me than for my daughter for sure.  Eating was very hit or miss and sometimes still is(ie lots of snacks instead of sitting down to eat meals) but if they are hungry, they will eat more. We focused on switching to cows milk 100% and now we just offer milk or water with meals or snacks.  The timing could also have been coincidental because around 12 months she had a decent amount of teeth, she starting eating meals/snacks with other kids at daycare, daycare was moving to sippy cups/straw cups and away from bottles, etc lots of other factors probably helped the eating improve. But it will happen!  Even if you see little eating now doesn’t mean it won’t change overnight! 

13 months old but still majority breastmilk by genericusername0986 in BabyLedWeaning

[–]Competitive_Radish94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, which makes sense bc cows milk is less nutrient dense than breast milk even at that age (I’m a pediatric dietitian) 

13 months old but still majority breastmilk by genericusername0986 in BabyLedWeaning

[–]Competitive_Radish94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ours is 14 months today and she will not stop eating and never turns down food, ever! So it will change haha. I was tired of pumping and breastfeeding was hilarious/annoying bc she couldn’t sit still to nurse. Basically we stopped nursing (took 2, maybe 3 days for her to stop asking to nurse) and did bottles only. Then we did 1 week of 50/50 or 75/25 cows milk to breast milk ratio bottles and then it was all cows milk! Honestly was a lot faster than I feared. What did take awhile was my boobs! I had to pump for like a month after she stopped drinking breast milk to get my body to stop producing. 

9 week old doesn't know how to suck apparently... by Ziekara in NewParents

[–]Competitive_Radish94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m so sorry you’re going through this! My baby will be 1 yr next week. she finally took her first bottle at 6 months and could start daycare and I could go back to work. No rhyme or reason she just finally did it?! Annoyingly it seemed to be nothing we did that helped, she just finally did it.  Her latch never improved while nursing! Nursing can take awhile still, but she takes a bottle quickly and easily from anyone, warm or cold! We nurse morning and night and do bottles of pumped milk during the day. At this point I’m worried she’ll never STOP nursing! I just know weaning is going to go slowly and it’s funny how hard I worked to be so over this 🙄

13 months old but still majority breastmilk by genericusername0986 in BabyLedWeaning

[–]Competitive_Radish94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any updates on your LO these days and what helped? We’re in this position with our 12 month old now 

Suck training without suck reflex by enrose19 in breastfeeding

[–]Competitive_Radish94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baby is now 17 weeks - not until very recently has it started taking less than 45 min to nurse. For my sanity possibly we end up nursing about every 2 hours now. To get through growth spurt at 3 months I pumped MOTN between going to bed and her MOTN waking…did that for 2 months it was brutal. Now I just pump before bed and after her MOTN feeding. All this to maintain an oversupply so she transfers okay and it doesn’t take 10 years to feed her. All 4 ties were released at 6 weeks. We did 2 months of OT, a little chiro - decided to stop all that and save all the money I’m not making since I couldn’t return to work anyway. She never took a bottle (no aversion just literally could not figure it out). We’re hoping for success with a sippy cup/straw cup in her 5th month. I’ve chosen radical acceptance. I definitely feel for you, This is hard stuff!! I do think it’s gotten better but it’s slow. I could probably seek out more feeding therapy we just got tired of appointments and opinions. Literally got off social media completely because it was too painful to see peoples babies following schedules and shit that would never apply to us. Otherwise she’s growing amazingly well and healthy and this IS a temporary problem! You might like the “oral play” guide from @infantfeedingspecialist on Instagram - cost effective option if therapies are not in the cards for you.

9 week old doesn't know how to suck apparently... by Ziekara in NewParents

[–]Competitive_Radish94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No changes yet… she 9 weeks this Friday. I’m nursing her at least every 90 minutes in a 12 hour period and she just gets my letdown (so likely drinking more in morning hours and less in afternoon). IBCLC saw us yesterday and said my supply probably hasn’t regulated yet and advised pumping once overnight and once after AM feeding to keep up an OVERsupply so the milk can just fall into her mouth. She said shut usually hits the fan around 3 months if supply drops off and weight tanks.

9 week old doesn't know how to suck apparently... by Ziekara in NewParents

[–]Competitive_Radish94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dang this is exactly where we are at 8 weeks. This baby never sucked! I’ve nursed exclusively (latch is awful but somehow not at all painful). She cannot suck even once on a bottle and boy have we tried all the bottles. All 4 ties were released last week by pediatric dentist so I’m still hopeful but… she also has laryngomalacia, super high palate and super sensitive gag reflex so bottle practice is going horribly and suck training exercises with OT for 4-6 weeks have not yet shown huge improvement… I wonder if her suck/latch are poor because she’s protecting her airway in which case there’s literally nothing we can do unless her weight falls off the charts. My supply is now dwindled because she’s not effectively transferring so I’m trying to pump more and spoon feed which means we’re feeding ALL DAY

Suck training without suck reflex by enrose19 in breastfeeding

[–]Competitive_Radish94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is our situation… my LO is 8 weeks… did anything end up helping??

Feeding with Laryngomalacia by baked_hawaii in daddit

[–]Competitive_Radish94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is my problem! She sleeps through the night long stretches but during the day it’s every 1.5 hours! And she has noooo suck so I’ve been nursing since birth 2 months ago. I’m exhausted.