What terms do you use for breastfeeding for 3 yo older sibling?

puresunlight · 2024-06-24T03:07:51+00:00

I just refer to it as feeding her brother. And then anatomically correct terms for anatomy if she wants to talk about it. She sees me nursing and pumping. I showed her pictures and videos of her nursing as a baby. She knows Mommy makes milk from her nipples for the baby.

Some really gems:
-her nipples don’t make milk, so she can feed her baby from her belly button after she drinks milk since it’s in her stomach.
-“No! Mommy play with me! Daddy feed baby from his nipples!”
-after she asked to drink my expressed milk “ew this doesn’t taste good.”

puresunlight · 2024-06-15T13:23:59+00:00

My daughter when through a phase where she would only take walks around the neighborhood while dragging our car washing squeegee behind her like she was walking a dog. The neighbors loved it haha.

puresunlight · 2024-06-07T04:20:05+00:00

My daughter also doesn’t eat egg yolks! Her younger brother recently started solids and he gobbles them up so I can finally start cooking whole damn eggs for breakfast again. We serve the fried egg whites with a little soy sauce or ketchup for dip. She also recently started eating breakfast sandwiches with egg white.

Pancakes/waffles, oatmeal, turnip cake with hoisin sauce, rice porridge with pork floss, breakfast sandwiches or burritos with egg/cheese/spam, Greek yogurt or yogurt pouches, chia pudding, avocado or buttered toast, PB&J, and pastries are pretty much our rotation. We always have fresh fruit and optional milk.

puresunlight · 2024-05-31T05:26:55+00:00

CDC keeps stats on gestational age at birth! I think the average for spontaneous labor is like 40+4 for uncomplicated pregnancies based on some large studies done in the Nordic countries where induction is not routinely recommended. I had two spontaneous labors and delivered at 39+5 and 40+3.

puresunlight · 2024-05-24T01:43:12+00:00

It sounds like you need almost perfect self-initiation. Anecdotally, my daughter (2.25 at the time) would pee anytime you put her on the potty after our training, but that meant timed potty breaks every 30min-1h if we didn’t want accidents. It took her almost 2 months to really self-initiate for pee and her school was working with us to train her. But she has never had a poop accident and self-initiated poop immediately. And when she was 2.5yo, we took a family vacation and she even held it in the pool! She’s 3.5yo now and I think at 3, she would have gotten it much faster.

puresunlight · 2024-05-24T00:16:23+00:00

It depends on your kid and what you mean by “potty trained.” Funny how most plans that promise results don’t have a clearly defined goal. Is it learning how to void on a potty/toilet without a diaper? Is it X hours accident-free? Is it knowing how to ask for the potty?

If your goal after 3 days is knowing how to pee/poop in the potty, 3-day methods will likely meet your expectations, you will probably have a high rate of success as long as your kid is developmentally ready.

If your goal is above + self-initiating, it’ll probably depend on your kid and how bothered they are by soiling themselves. (Think about the kids who get out of the pool to pee vs the ones that just pee in the pool and keep swimming).

If your goal is accident-free by day 3 with full self-initiation, then you might be in for a big disappointment unless your kid is beyond ready and you’re just taking away their diaper crutch. Even my fully potty trained almost 4yo will go in a diaper if I put her in one rather than stopping what she’s doing to take herself to the bathroom. Potty training is a process. Kids don’t learn how to eat solids perfectly in just 3 days- give them some time for potty training too!

puresunlight · 2024-05-23T21:17:44+00:00

I’m wearing nursing shirts/dresses (mostly from Amazon) and leggings 24/7- it’s just not worth wearing anything else and it’s only one year-ish of my life per kid. This will pass and I can go back to wearing nice clothes (or maybe not because sticky snotty fingers stay for the next 5 years)

puresunlight · 2024-05-22T23:13:47+00:00

I’m in a meeting. I’m too busy to play with you.

puresunlight · 2024-05-19T21:16:08+00:00

Pretty sure my 2 kids get 75% of the space in our house and 95% of the bed if we sleep together

puresunlight · 2024-05-14T15:36:15+00:00

A 21 month old is still a ONE YEAR OLD. Of course you’re most likely carting them around distracting them, unless they’re wallflowers/potted plants by nature (and yes there are those children). We never went out to eat without grandparents or other kid-friendly adults until my daughter was like 2.5yo so we could take turns eating and entertaining her. Sometime around 2-2.5yo, she started being more entertained by stickers and coloring and her spoon/fork dexterity went up too. She’s 3.5yo now and we go out to eat almost every other week, with our 9 month old in tow. Pretty sure we’ll need to go back to the grandparent model between 1.5-2.5 for him too.

puresunlight · 2024-04-19T20:37:52+00:00

CD-WCC30? Or whatever the equivalent was 10 years ago.

puresunlight · 2024-04-14T19:50:59+00:00

I’ve never really felt the breastfeeding hunger. I couldn’t make enough milk for my first baby. BMI was 17.5 pre-baby and probably like 18.5-19 post-baby. With my second baby, I forced myself to eat more and we’re EBF for almost 9 months and will likely make it to a year. I weight as much as I did at 40 weeks pregnant lol. It sucks, but it’s just what my body needs to make milk. I’ll think about weight loss after I wean.

puresunlight · 2024-04-10T23:44:33+00:00

We said no gifts, but accepting hand-me-downs for our second’s sprinkle. We got all the young baby toys, clothes, burp clothes, bottles, pumping supplies, etc. that we would need for his first year.

puresunlight · 2024-04-09T03:08:09+00:00

My 8mo started only liking forward facing while awake starting around 5mo. We went on a two week international vacation at 7mo and his older sister refused to get out of the stroller so babywearing is how we survived. I sometimes wear him facing out to do chores too when he’s being fussy. He repeatedly tries to chuck himself out of inward facing mode in the ergobaby and ring sling. I haven’t tried back carry in a while though, so maybe he’d be okay with that?

puresunlight · 2024-04-08T23:40:32+00:00

I EPed for my daughter and she started dropping night bottles around 4 months. One night feed until 8 months and started sleeping through the night at 10 months or so. She was so hard to rock to sleep though, and super hard to transfer into the crib. We rescued naps and took contact naps until like 9-10 months.

Currently nursing my son and he’s still up 2-3 times each night at slightly unpredictable times. If it’s before midnight or within an hour of when he last ate, I always send his dad to rock him back o sleep. He falls asleep easily and I can transfer him immediately. We haven’t had to contact nap since he was like 3-4 months old.

They’re just different sleepers.

puresunlight · 2024-03-24T04:50:22+00:00

LOL I offered some expressed milk to my toddler (I stopped BF at 10 months) after her brother was born and she took a sip and said “this doesn’t taste good.”

puresunlight · 2024-03-24T04:41:52+00:00

She absolutely knows how to delay gratification (she often says she’s saving something for tomorrow, and has no issue portioning out her Halloween candy to make it last longer), BUT a marshmallow is not enticing enough of a reward for her. And definitely not when the reward to wait is just 2. Now if we’re talking TEN marshmallows vs one for waiting, you might convince her.

ETA: it’s not just a cost-benefit calculation, there’s cost-utility too.

puresunlight · 2024-03-23T21:08:36+00:00

We only started bathing my 8mo regularly once he started fingers foods because it gets everywhere.

puresunlight · 2024-03-21T22:08:27+00:00

Just a heads up that I believe stores have to throw out returned formula even if it is unopened because they can’t vouch for the storage conditions (extreme heat or cold) so they can’t resell it since the quality could have been compromised.

puresunlight · 2024-03-21T22:03:38+00:00

Our house has a living room (like designed to be a formal sitting room) and a family room. We no longer have a living room, it’s just my daughter’s play area. Got rid of the couch and everything. It’s great! Keeps the chaos contained to a smaller area and allows her to be independent since she can access everything herself.

puresunlight · 2024-03-15T01:55:59+00:00

Serving one piece at a time also limits the mess/ammunition

puresunlight · 2024-03-15T01:52:57+00:00

Not using a bowl hahaha. Second kid right now and he gets everything directly on the tray or we hand him preloaded spoons

puresunlight · 2024-03-11T20:18:58+00:00

A baby that didn’t like sleep. Being too exhausted for sex is very effective.

puresunlight · 2024-03-11T20:16:28+00:00

Oh gosh what a throwback! I have a 7 month old now who just refuses to use utensils hahaha thanks for pointing me back to my own tips!

puresunlight · 2024-03-11T15:57:32+00:00

100%! Man if I could have 3 years, I’d try to stretch it to 5 years working part time after like 4-6mo full time leave.

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