19month old boob monster

[misdee]

am shattered.

dd is 19months and thankfully now sleeps 7pm til 5am most nights. she wakes up at 5 when dh gets up to go to work.

but from the moment she wakes till she is asleep all she wants is breastmilk. if i sit down for any reason she starts mithering and pulling up my top.

i am getting fed up with it, and really starting to resent breastfeeding.

however as she has a cows milk protein allery (as well as eggs and nuts) i am really stuck. she wont take the medical formula we got given. and her consultant doesnt like soya milk for under 2's. so i have another 5months of breastfeeding really.

How is she with solids?

Wear clothes during the day that she can't pull up?

she eats well. belgo, was considering getting a bodysuit and wearing it under my clothes.

she is clambering on me right now screaming, despite having had milk less than an hour ago, and having a cup of water as well.

she isnt content with just a cuddle.

My ds is the opposite, he'll bf all night and not bother much about drinking milk all day.

I'm not sure which is worse tbh!

she was breastfeeding all nigght before easter, and then again during the day.

am just feeling a bit down about it today, and the lack of break from it.

Hi misdee, my 19 month old is the very same.

If I sit down at all she whinges and pulls at my top til I feed her - sometimes she only wants 30 seconds. It is worse if she is tired or bored though.

I am still feeding her in the night too. On a bad night she wakes up about 5 times.

If we are busy and out and about she never wants a feed in the daytime and drinks cows milk no problem.

It is about so much more than food for her. If she is upset she won't let me comfort her any other way. I am worn out.

I spoke to a breastfeeding counsellor who advised me to stop fighting her on it and offer her feeds when it was convenient to me. I tried this and it has taken some of the stress out of it.

I don't see how I can wean her. I think it is up to her at this stage.

You are in a more difficult position with the allergies because at least if dd2 decided to stop now she has an alternative.

No advice. Just sympathy I'm afraid.

she is now cuddled up on my hip with her dummy and the tv controller (the kid likes power lol)

my ds is the same age and VEY attached to the TV remote control - not that he can figure out what it does!

Very not vey

she cant figure it out, but knows its on cbeebies right now and if dd1 gets hold of it she will chage the channel lol.

Misdee she sounds very cute.

You could try offering her a biscuit every time she asks. Or chocolate. That sometimes works.

If DS is really doing my head in I just don't sit down.

hmmm the only choc she can have is thorntons, so thats a no as thats mine lol.

trying to cut down her biscuit habit but she is now munching some shreddies

Won't she have Green and Blacks?

hmmm none in the house. or any Divine either.

In that case, I suggest standing up in a wetsuit, eating Thorntons.

DD was such a milk monster at that age. It was every time I sat down, or if she happened to see me out of the corner of her eye or if I was pushing her in a trolley and it was eye level. She just wanted milk milk milk.

In the end I just went with it. If I didn't want to bfeed at that moment, I distracted her, same as I would with any other behaviour I wanted to stop but allowed her some control. I wanted to do that 'never offer, never refuse' thing but if I'd never refused, I'd never have left the house.

Around 2 and with better comprehension and discussion to be had we decided that milk was a pyjama activity, only in bed and she was v happy with that. She was involved in the decision and although she is still bfed at 3, it's only in a morning now and not every day by any means. Middle of the first year was a nightmare though. She fed all night and all day. I think it was developmental tbh. The beginnings of letting go and reaffirming your presence so letting go wasn't so scary. I wouldn't and couldn't have weaned at that point. She genuinely needed it.