All this nursing help! I love it!
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All, I have gotten SO much support from ya'll about this nursing issue - and
it was JUST what I needed. I have some better tools now hen I need to keep
it super short, I have support for my choices and my continuing...it's all just
what I needed. I do a few of these things already, but just having them
validated and being HEARD makes me feel better and more able to continue to
follow my heart of hearts (how I try and parent with all things, hence, by being
here, lol) when I hear that sneaky group of Conventional Conventionists, that
made me laugh - Magenta's Mama, your daughter gets that phrase :) ) coming
for me around the corner...hee hee...
Thanks AGAIN - I saved ach email I got back!
Karen PS
************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
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it was JUST what I needed. I have some better tools now hen I need to keep
it super short, I have support for my choices and my continuing...it's all just
what I needed. I do a few of these things already, but just having them
validated and being HEARD makes me feel better and more able to continue to
follow my heart of hearts (how I try and parent with all things, hence, by being
here, lol) when I hear that sneaky group of Conventional Conventionists, that
made me laugh - Magenta's Mama, your daughter gets that phrase :) ) coming
for me around the corner...hee hee...
Thanks AGAIN - I saved ach email I got back!
Karen PS
************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
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Shannon G.
I had meant to reply to your post about breastfeeding but had not gotten a chance.
Great job mama for nursing for so long. I have 4 kids. The older 2 I had when I was young and did not have the knowledge of attatchment parenting, extended breastfeeding etc so I weaned them young. My 3rd child nursed for 6 months, I would have wanted to nurse longer but with me working full time and going to school full time I was having so many issues trying to pump and kept getting clogged ducts and mastitis and ended up stopping
My 4th child, Sterling, nursed until he was 5 years and 3 months. He is 5 1/2 now. He would nurse a lot and sometimes it would get frustrating. There were times I wanted him to wean. Like you, I also wanted to follow child led weaning and did not want to force him to wean but at times I would hope he would one day just stop.
Finally I just encouraged him to nurse less. I would tell him that it was hurting me, because it was. His latch got more and more painul as time went by. Not sure why, maybe all his teeth or something. I would ask him if he was even getting any milk or if he just liked to nurse. Also I started nursing him in the bedroom so he could not watch tv, listen to the other kids playing etc. This seemed to cut back his nursing because he did not want to have to go into the other room. The last 3-4 months of nursing I would only nurse him at nap time.
He finally one day just did not want to nurse. After a few days I did ask him if he wanted to nurse ( only because I had so little milk by that point I was worried that I would dry up very fast if he did not nurse for a few days so I wanted to make sure this would be a permanent weaning) He said no. He said he did not need it anymore but that I could hold him lol. After that there was no looking back...his 19 year old sister who moved out, came home for the weekend and she asked Sterling if he still nursed and he was so matter of fact about it. He said No, that is for babies, I do not need that anymore..lol..
He is my last child, I can not have anymore babies, even though I would love to, so I was a bit sad that our nursing relationship was over but I am still very proud for nursing so long and for the bond that we shared. To celebrate I went and bought myself some new sexy bras.
I have never nursed 2 kids at once and I am sure that is a huge undertaking and takes a lot of work.
Shannon
Great job mama for nursing for so long. I have 4 kids. The older 2 I had when I was young and did not have the knowledge of attatchment parenting, extended breastfeeding etc so I weaned them young. My 3rd child nursed for 6 months, I would have wanted to nurse longer but with me working full time and going to school full time I was having so many issues trying to pump and kept getting clogged ducts and mastitis and ended up stopping
My 4th child, Sterling, nursed until he was 5 years and 3 months. He is 5 1/2 now. He would nurse a lot and sometimes it would get frustrating. There were times I wanted him to wean. Like you, I also wanted to follow child led weaning and did not want to force him to wean but at times I would hope he would one day just stop.
Finally I just encouraged him to nurse less. I would tell him that it was hurting me, because it was. His latch got more and more painul as time went by. Not sure why, maybe all his teeth or something. I would ask him if he was even getting any milk or if he just liked to nurse. Also I started nursing him in the bedroom so he could not watch tv, listen to the other kids playing etc. This seemed to cut back his nursing because he did not want to have to go into the other room. The last 3-4 months of nursing I would only nurse him at nap time.
He finally one day just did not want to nurse. After a few days I did ask him if he wanted to nurse ( only because I had so little milk by that point I was worried that I would dry up very fast if he did not nurse for a few days so I wanted to make sure this would be a permanent weaning) He said no. He said he did not need it anymore but that I could hold him lol. After that there was no looking back...his 19 year old sister who moved out, came home for the weekend and she asked Sterling if he still nursed and he was so matter of fact about it. He said No, that is for babies, I do not need that anymore..lol..
He is my last child, I can not have anymore babies, even though I would love to, so I was a bit sad that our nursing relationship was over but I am still very proud for nursing so long and for the bond that we shared. To celebrate I went and bought myself some new sexy bras.
I have never nursed 2 kids at once and I am sure that is a huge undertaking and takes a lot of work.
Shannon
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Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:00 PM
Subject: [unschoolingbasics] All this nursing help! I love it!
All, I have gotten SO much support from ya'll about this nursing issue - and
it was JUST what I needed. I have some better tools now hen I need to keep
it super short, I have support for my choices and my continuing...it's all just
what I needed. I do a few of these things already, but just having them
validated and being HEARD makes me feel better and more able to continue to
follow my heart of hearts (how I try and parent with all things, hence, by being
here, lol) when I hear that sneaky group of Conventional Conventionists, that
made me laugh - Magenta's Mama, your daughter gets that phrase :) ) coming
for me around the corner...hee hee...
Thanks AGAIN - I saved ach email I got back!
Karen PS
************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
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