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Infant feeding

Get advice and support with infant feeding from other users here.

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Anyone interested in an 'extended' bfers support thread?

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lilysma · 01/02/2009 11:14

Not sure what I mean by 'extended' exactly - maybe it's a self defined thing?

I define myself as an 'extended' bfer because I hardly know anyone else bfing a child as old as mine (DD is 26 months) and feel the need to discuss some issues with people also doing this and wonder if anyone else does??

Anyone up for an informal support thread on this?

OP posts:

mawbroon · 26/10/2009 16:12

HappyAccident - I'm rubbish at working out who people are when they name change!! But congratulations on your news.

mawbroon · 26/10/2009 16:15

Oh, sorry, and welcome MamaArwen.

HappyAccident · 26/10/2009 16:45

You will actually know who I am better than anyone Mawbroon!
How is ds' obsession with the salad spinner ?

Welcome MamaArwen. Tandeming a great idea .

BouncingTurtle · 26/10/2009 16:55

Welcome MamaArwen!

You are very welcome - and you are not alone!

I know 4 other RL mums who have breastfed for as long as or longer than I have (ds is 22mo), 3 of them I met through mumsnet!

mawbroon · 26/10/2009 21:01

Congratulations.

He still plays with it you know!!

elvislives · 26/10/2009 21:20

mawbroom until we sell our house

DD got up this morning in a really cheerful mood rabbiting on about "I feed a mummy ina bed", which went down like a lead balloon. I won't stop feeding her just because other people don't like it, but it's not fun to have someone so openly anti.

So pleased to hear that others have older toddlers still nursing. Welcome mamaarwen. My DD is feeding a number of times a day (and night)

picklemumma · 26/10/2009 23:05

elvislives - to your mum and her cat's bum face! My mum is fairly supportive of me feeding my ds, but does sometimes mention 'you're a bit big for that now' (he's nearly 2)- though not sure if she really thinks that or if she thinks he's mithering me up. My dad thinks it's a leetle bit embarassing, but then my mum was given no encouragement at all to bf me and my brother a few decades back, so they've got no experience of it.

MamaArwen - welcome!

I was lounging in bed with my lovely child this morning, when he stopped feeding for a mo and said 'Mummy milk! Nice!'. What's not to like? (Well, apart from the damned fiddlin', pinchin' and pokin'!)

BouncingTurtle · 27/10/2009 06:37

I quite agree picklemama! My mum is equally supportive, my dad has also never said anything about it, though if he did I think my DSM would have a few words for him .But I think that natural term breastfeeding is more common in Spain.
It still wouldn't stop me even if I did get looks off people, my little ds is a total boob addict. I just love his little face when he is feeding, he always raises his eyebrows like he is really concentrating. Though I agree the boob pinching and kneading is rather irritating!

elvislives · 07/11/2009 12:22

Poor little DD got sent home from nursery early yesterday because she'd been sick. She snuggled in a just fed and fed when we got home. Mum came home a couple of hours later and asked her if she wanted some milk I told her milk was a bad idea for a child who'd been sick so she asked her if she wanted yogurt!

That same yogurt came back up all over the doctors surgery . When the doctor (who I'd never met before, to make it worse) said that actually milk and milk products- incl yogurt- were a bad idea for a child being sick I told her that grandma had given it to her and she looked very sympathetic. She was the first doctor I've ever come across who didn't bat an eyelid when I said I was still BF, and who suggested it was the best thing for her while she's not feeling too good.

DD much brighter today.

BouncingTurtle · 08/11/2009 17:59

Aww poor dd!

Nice to seeyou have a supportive GP! And she is absolutely correct of course!

BouncingTurtle · 15/12/2009 07:31

I think this is long over due a bump... how is everyone getting on?

WoTmania · 15/12/2009 09:28

I was thinking that the other day
We're still tandem nursing. DS2 is 30 months now and DD is nearly 10 months .
We've had a breakthrough with my mum and I'm back to happily nursing him at my folks' house and they do still occasionally ask if he's getting a bit old and I usually reply that I don't think he is and they stop. My Nanna on the other hand is so supportive of me still nursing DS2 it's untrue. She's fab.

I've also had a few really supprtive comments from HCPs about DS2 stll nursing.

mawbroon · 15/12/2009 10:10

I could post my usual thing saying that I think ds might be weaning........ but we've heard it all before eh?

Saying that, he went to bed the last two nights and he asked me to stroke his hair instead of having milk.

I am getting a bit annoyed with him nursing now tbh, but I have read that it is quite normal to feel like this whilst nursing during pregnancy.

He knows fine that there will be loads of milk when the baby is born, and I think he is hanging on for that. I can see that he will either start to feed like a newborn, or he will lose interest because milk is for babies. Not willing to bet which way it will go though.....

WoTmania · 15/12/2009 11:33

I was like that with both DSs. I used to shut myself in the kitchen to gat away from little stroking, pinching hands

sneezecake · 15/12/2009 11:43

hi can i join, I still bf my 15 mo he has cp and I think my milk is helping him, I could be sssoooo wrong, but he likes the comefort. I'm sorry I've not read the whole thread but what do you about the biting, ds has 4 molars coming through which he is obviously finding irritating, and uses me as a teether dont know what to do about it has been going on for ages any suggestions? thanks x

ChairmumMiaow · 15/12/2009 11:46

mawbroon - I find it annoying too now. It definitely feels like there is no milk, and last night is the first time I fed DS to sleep in a good few weeks. Mostly he just has what I am sure is a comfort suck for 5 minutes a side (at most) and runs off to ask for Daddy to settle him!

There's just something about it that makes me feel a bit cringy at the moment. Hoping my colostrum comes in ASAP and that it helps!

It is a bit wierd tho that my boobs have shrunk (doesn't help that I've lost more than half a stone in the last few weeks from being ill and really not wanting to eat). My pregnancy books reckon they should be growing, but they are definitely not!!

I've got the experience of feeding a toddler in Gran Canaria coming up next week, and TBH I'm a bit relieved that he hardly has any milk now as I won't have to worry much about feeding in a swimming costume

WoTmania · 15/12/2009 11:55

Chairmum. I noticed that mine didn't get any bigger during pregnancy but when DD was born they went up to 32G from a 32E.

Babieseverywhere · 15/12/2009 13:39

I don't know if this is an extended nursing story or not but thought you ladies on here would like it.

My 3.3 year old DD still nursing, has recently got very interested in nipples, breasts, willys etc (her word from nursery, we use proper names i.e. penis)

Anyhow, this morning after her shower she showed me her chest and said she would get breasts one day. I said yes when you are 16 years old.

Yes, mummy I will get breasts and make milk, then I can feed Woodwood (her 15 month old baby brother)

Awww, I had to explain that she would have her own baby one day and she could feed her own baby milk. She was so disappointed that she couldn't feed DS. LOL

BouncingTurtle · 15/12/2009 13:51

Babies everywhere - awwww your dd is so sweet!!! Did you point out by the time she is 16, her db probably won't be needing her milk then

Welcome Sneezecake! Sympathies on the teeth, we've all been through that! Do you mean Chicken Pox or Cerebral Palsy? I've seen CP used for both of these!

I believe that breastfeeding can alleviate some of the symptons of Cerebral Palsy but will need to look to find some links to back that up - but haven't time right now. But I certainly cannot see it being a bad thing

sneezecake · 15/12/2009 17:19

sorry i mean cerebral palsy, we had a horrible birth which left ds with some brain damage, but he's progressing well now and i was able to bf from day 1, via a tube at first but then he got the hang of it!

BouncingTurtle · 15/12/2009 18:04

Ahh bless him - he knows it is good for him, that's why.

Right have struggled to find some specific links in research for children with CP who have been breastfed. However, in my limited understanding of CP, I believe that a child with CP is more prone to infections, and are more likely to be hospitalised due to infections? Well breastfeeding will confer a protection on your child from getting the infections in the first place as you will be supporting his immune system.
If you had not breastfed your son, he would be twice as likely to develop gastrointestinal bugs, twice as likely to have ear infections, 3 times more likely to suffer respitory(sp?) infections and would be more likely to suffer from allergies, asthma and obesity - all of which would have more serious repercussions on your CP child, compared to a non-CP child.
So by breastfeeding him you are giving him so many advantages to help maintain his health.
So a big hooray for you and one for your DS!!

sneezecake · 15/12/2009 18:15

wow thats impressive!,(appart from issues related to his cp) ds has never had so much as a cold I'm so glad I perserveered with it dispite the odd looks from MIL when I asked if there was somewhere I can go to feed him. and I was just looking at journals myself, and I know it was to do with NT children but it said that 50% of bottle fed babies were more likely to go on and develop gross motor development delays, so who knows it could have gone on to minimise that as well?
and also it works all the muscles of the mouth, which is great physio for him, think that could be why he's quite articulate with his words. he's a babe, love 'im to pieces and i'll not be giving up until he's ready.

BouncingTurtle · 15/12/2009 20:17

Awwww we do love our babies!!

My ds is starting to sleep through the night (though he did wake up last night so spent the rest of the night with him, mainly because I couldn't be arsed getting out and I knew DH was getting up at 5am!!).

He is still a boobaholic, though!

weasle · 15/12/2009 21:22

hi, nice to hear how others are doing. my ds2 is 2 today and still bf 1-2/day, although i think there is no milk at all (i'm now 19 weeks pg) but i'm so pleased and a bit proud to have made it so long after lots of problems and no family support whatsoever (including dh).

will see if he keeps going and gets to the colostrum stage, whenever that is...

BouncingTurtle · 15/12/2009 23:40

Happy birthday mini-weasle

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