u/PoetryofOurStars

Basically the title. Starting the process of weaning by actively dropping a feed & not pumping to replace. We of course gave her milk in a cup, but just didn’t pressure and let her drink at her pace and kept offering. It took her 2 hours to finish all 4oz.

I’m struggling mentally with that leap of going from “this is vital to keep her alive” to “it’s just a beverage, she’ll be ok” and relying on solids even though she eats incredibly well and loves food.

I think because I had some milk supply issues early on that really messed with me I’m like traumatized and always worried about her not getting enough (even though she is huge and 95% now lol)

What helped you with the mental leap and the anxiety?

My baby is about to hit 11 months, I’m just planning ahead a little bit because unfortunately I have to have her weaned by 13 months due to a week long work trip overseas exactly when she turns 13 months.

She eats solids super well (3 meals a day and 1 snack right now). We nurse at wake up, after each nap, and at the beginning of the bedtime routine right now, with sometimes the odd extra feed in the day.

I’m pumping 2x a day at work, and she gets 3 3oz bottles at daycare. This seems to work well because between that and her sleep schedule, she sleeps through the night finally (barring teething!)

I know I drop a feed/pump every 5-7 days. Does that mean I should start right on her birthday to make sure I have time? I have a rather large deep freezer stash I was going to use until it was empty because for the first 8 or so months I was a major oversupplier.

I also want to know how to manage weaning with comfort nursing. She’s teething so bad, and woke up last night and was scream crying off and on for over an hour before we gave her the boob and she calmed down and went to sleep. I just don’t know what I’ll do or my husband can do in that situation if we’re weaning!

Any advice or like a schedule help would be majorly appreciated.

My baby is about to hit 11 months, I’m just planning ahead a little bit because unfortunately I have to have her weaned by 13 months due to a week long work trip overseas exactly when she turns 13 months.

She eats solids super well (3 meals a day and 1 snack right now). We nurse at wake up, after each nap, and at the beginning of the bedtime routine right now, with sometimes the odd extra feed in the day.

I’m pumping 2x a day at work, and she gets 3 3oz bottles at daycare. This seems to work well because between that and her sleep schedule, she sleeps through the night finally (barring teething!)

I know I drop a feed/pump every 5-7 days. Does that mean I should start right on her birthday to make sure I have time? I have a rather large deep freezer stash I was going to use until it was empty because for the first 8 or so months I was a major oversupplier.

I also want to know how to manage weaning with comfort nursing. She’s teething so bad, and woke up last night and was scream crying off and on for over an hour before we gave her the boob and she calmed down and went to sleep. I just don’t know what I’ll do or my husband can do in that situation if we’re weaning!

Any advice or like a schedule help would be majorly appreciated.

My baby is about to hit 11 months, I’m just planning ahead a little bit because unfortunately I have to have her weaned by 13 months due to a week long work trip overseas exactly when she turns 13 months.

She eats solids super well (3 meals a day and 1 snack right now). We nurse at wake up, after each nap, and at the beginning of the bedtime routine right now, with sometimes the odd extra feed in the day.

I’m pumping 2x a day at work, and she gets 3 3oz bottles at daycare. This seems to work well because between that and her sleep schedule, she sleeps through the night finally (barring teething!)

I know I drop a feed/pump every 5-7 days. Does that mean I should start right on her birthday to make sure I have time? I have a rather large deep freezer stash I was going to use until it was empty because for the first 8 or so months I was a major oversupplier.

I also want to know how to manage weaning with comfort nursing. She’s teething so bad, and woke up last night and was scream crying off and on for over an hour before we gave her the boob and she calmed down and went to sleep. I just don’t know what I’ll do or my husband can do in that situation if we’re weaning!

Any advice or like a schedule help would be majorly appreciated.

She was sent home from daycare due to multiple loose stools and one was a blowout 😭

We leave for a 5 day family beach trip tomorrow. I know there isn’t anything I can give her, but what can I pack or do to try and survive this trip?

For context she is breastfed but I had to travel for work today so she has had some frozen breast milk from my stash since I missed extra feeds, so that could contribute. We are giving her very plain oatmeal for dinner. She’s happy, not too fussy, and no fever. She has been teething if that matters.

Hi! We are desperate for some schedule help for my almost 10 month old. She’s always been low sleep needs (averages about 12 hours total per day, just shy of 10 hours overnight) but seems tired and cranky, and is waking up at night more and more.

Naps are inconsistent but the morning nap tends to be good, about 1-1.5 hours. Afternoon nap is 35 min-1 hour if we’re lucky lately. One day recently she did 10 min for her second nap lol. Naps average about 2.25 hours per day total.

We’ve been doing about 3/3.5/4 but she seems to hit a wall at the 4 hour mark, and bedtime is always a lengthy battle (30-1 hour to get her to sleep with lots of interventions).

Currently she is in our same room, but we’re open to moving her. Wake up goal is 7am, but we’ve been getting frequent night wakes and she’ll sometimes be up at 5-6:30. We try to anchor her first feed (nursing) to 7:30am every day and have been good about that. I would like to not nurse her overnight, but it does tend to be the fastest way back to sleep. Even that is starting to fail; she’ll be restless and squirm off of me and still not be asleep now.

We don’t want to do any CIO or Ferber methods, but some very gentle sleep training could be ok. We usually stay in the room next to her until she falls asleep.

She falls asleep on her own with us in the room for naps right now (no patting/rocking etc) but has needed more help at bedtime lately, usually going to nursing to sleep when we hit that 45-1 hour mark of screaming crying.

Please please help! Hope I covered everything!

Please help my doom spiral because I am straight up panicking.

LO will be 9 months on Thursday. She is breastfed and been regularly getting 3 small meals each day. Her milk definitely decreased at daycare lately, but she was still taking at least 8-12 oz a day until today. Normally offered 4oz every 3 hours.

7:30 nurse (ate well from what I can tell)
9:30 big breakfast at daycare (banana, muffin, 2oz of strawberry yogurt oatmeal)
10:20 offered and refused bottle
Nap 10:40-11:50
11:55 Lunch (leftover salmon and veggies from dinner, whatever fit in a 4 oz jar) ate about half
1:40 offered and refused bottle
2:50 snack (2 oz of the yogurt oatmeal from breakfast)
Nap 3:10-4:53
4:58 offered 4oz and drank 2oz of breastmilk
6:00 big dinner (pasta, meatballs, steamed broccoli)
7:15 nurse (ate a long time, seemed good).

I think they are spacing out the milk offers and solids well, like one shouldn’t be impeding the other this much? What am I doing wrong? I don’t want her to accidentally self wean too young or something.

She’s been having several teeth look like they are coming in at once if that’s a factor as well? Just really worried if I should be doing something different or if it was an off day from the holiday weekend and her just preferring me over the bottle. Please help!

My girl is a great eater, both nursing and with foods. We’ve done some BLW and purees, and responsively feed (offer small portions, then more if she enjoys it and wants it). We started this at 5.5 months with no issue, and she continued to take three 5oz bottles per day at daycare.

She just turned 8 months recently and I would say right about that time (last 2 weeks or so) suddenly she is reducing her milk intake. We have been doing 3 meals a day with her for a month and it just dropped. She’ll do 2-4oz in the daycare bottles. I’ve started sending 4oz bags instead of 5 because she was wasting so much. Is this normal? She is loving solids and eating more and is seemingly happy and content!

I’ve tried to reduce my pumping (I did 3 15min sessions at work before, now it’s 3 8min sessions) and I’m still getting a similar output of 20ish oz (oversupply). Should I be dropping a pump at this point?

Any tips for solids/pumping/nursing with an older baby would be appreciated!