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Old October 29th 08, 02:18 AM posted to misc.kids.pregnancy
Anne Rogers
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I'm still reading, but there's just not much to talk about on my end.
Sara's a year a month and a couple of days and still nursing a lot. I've
just today started my first period (seriously bad timing, too...) and
I'm totally not planning another child. Two are enough for this little
household ;-)


You're doing a great job with the nursing, I'm really hoping for a long
nursing relationship with this child. My first was very small and had a
weak suck, resulting in me having a really borderline supply, so he got
some formula from about 10 weeks until 5ish months, we got back to
exclusive feeding before introducing solids, which was an acheivement.
He weaned when I got pregnant with DD, he was around 17 months, my milk
vanished!

With DD she was never a very cuddly child, she didn't like physical
contact, nursing was purely for the milk it gave her, so although she
was never supplemented or even offered other milks when she turned one,
she weaned herself at 18 months - unusual apparently, but it was a
behaviour you could predict from the day she was born.

I'd happily have nursed both of them for much longer, so this time
around it's something I'll be really aiming for, even with DDs
behaviour, I think I could have encouraged it more at times, but I
struggled with positioning her so I didn't tend to feed her if something
else would work when she needed comforting!

Cheers
Anne