A Parenting & kids forum. ParentingBanter.com

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » ParentingBanter.com forum » misc.kids » Breastfeeding
Site Map Home Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Roll Call and Updates :)



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #11  
Old October 28th 06, 06:21 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
Anne Rogers
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,497
Default Roll Call and Updates :)

Well Ada (16 months) is thankfully still nursing, it's been hard in the
later months, I find her so big, though she's not particularly big for her
age, she's just a lot bigger than her big brother was at this age and I'm
struggling a lot more physically. The past few days she's been showing a lot
more signs of actually wanting to nurse, rather than it just being something
she does, it will be strange when she does wean as I don't really have any
idea whether or not it will be the last nursing for me or not, there are so
many factors that would influence if we have a 3rd child and I don't think
we'll be much further to knowing in the next year or so. She's at the stage
walking wise where she's pretty competant at it, but has no sense of purpose
and strongly resists having her hand held to guide her, she turns round the
other way and sits down! Which means I have to carry her for all those short
distances when you wouldn't use a stroller, which is very hard for me (SPD
and dislocated hip, both during delivery and again 5 months ago). We've
decided to put her in daycare 2 days a weeks, she's going to a montessori
school that feeds them organic food and uses cloth diapers and encourages
extended breastfeeding. What I'd really like to do it find an activity for
just me and her, but I haven't found anything that suits timewise.

Nathanael is 3.5, he's finally having a bit of a growth spurt after very
slow progress weightwise and slowish progress heightwise, even so he's still
barely an each taller than our friends 21 month old and lighter, but then
this toddler was twice N's birthweight! I'm finding the adjustment to the US
strange with him educationally, in England at this age he would be in
"Nursery" 2.5hrs a day, paid for by the state, but non compulsary, here, he
doesn't start kindergarten for almost 2 years and even then, in this state
that is only 2.5hrs per day! We've put him in preschool, which is 3 sessions
a week and it seems to be going ok, last week he was saying that he didn't
want to go, but this week has been fine, so I think he's ok with it, it just
takes some adjustment!

Cheers

Anne


  #12  
Old October 28th 06, 08:17 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
Nikki
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 486
Default Roll Call and Updates :)


"Anne Rogers" wrote in message
...
Well Ada (16 months) is thankfully still nursing,


I wondered. I remember your ealier post. You're such a good mama. I'll
be doing a happy dance if mine show signs of weaning anytime after 12mos. I
seem to produce milk obsessed munchkins.

She's at the stage
walking wise where she's pretty competant at it, but has no sense of
purpose and strongly resists having her hand held to guide her, she turns
round the other way and sits down! Which means I have to carry her for all
those short distances when you wouldn't use a stroller, which is very hard
for me (SPD and dislocated hip, both during delivery and again 5 months
ago).


That is such a cute age but I it must be really difficult for you :-( Will
you be able to continue seeing specialists here in the US?

We've
decided to put her in daycare 2 days a weeks, she's going to a montessori
school that feeds them organic food and uses cloth diapers and encourages
extended breastfeeding. What I'd really like to do it find an activity for
just me and her, but I haven't found anything that suits timewise.

Nathanael is 3.5, he's finally having a bit of a growth spurt after very
slow progress weightwise and slowish progress heightwise, even so he's
still barely an each taller than our friends 21 month old and lighter, but
then this toddler was twice N's birthweight! I'm finding the adjustment to
the US strange with him educationally, in England at this age he would be
in "Nursery" 2.5hrs a day, paid for by the state, but non compulsary,
here, he doesn't start kindergarten for almost 2 years and even then, in
this state that is only 2.5hrs per day! We've put him in preschool, which
is 3 sessions a week and it seems to be going ok, last week he was saying
that he didn't want to go, but this week has been fine, so I think he's ok
with it, it just takes some adjustment!



Good luck with all the adjustments Anne. I've never lived more then 3hrs
from where I was born so I can't imagine adjusting to such big cultural
changes. It sounds exciting but stressful at the same time.


--
Nikki, mama to
Hunter 4/99
Luke 4/01
Brock 4/06
Ben 4/06


  #13  
Old October 28th 06, 11:23 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
[email protected]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 9
Default Roll Call and Updates :)

We are doing great. My daughter, now 20 months, weaned a couple months
ago with little difficulty and we now have her sleeping all night (most
of the time) in a big girl bed in her own room! Worried about the
transition from our bed to her own room and bed all at once but it
turned out to be a non-issue.

Just in time I suppose, I'm now almost 15 weeks with baby #2 (due April
2007) and am really looking forward to having another nursling. Also
looking forward to having some room in the bed to stretch out for a few
months until th enext little one comes along!

Elle

  #14  
Old October 29th 06, 03:53 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
MareCat
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 5
Default Roll Call and Updates :)

"Nikki" wrote in message
news:ZI2dnWH5ZKQwGN7YnZ2dnUVZ_vCdnZ2d@prairiewave. com...

"MareCat" wrote in message
. ..
Glad to hear everything's going so well with the twins! That's awesome!

All's going well here. Nursed my first DD until just after she turned 3
and am now pumping for my twin DDs, who just turned a month old. They're
doing great and are getting BIG! Like your boys, they have such different
personalities (and different physical characteristics). We've been having
so much fun with them.

Mary


Holy Cats -- How did I miss the fact that you had twins!! Congrats :-)
I'm slightly twin obsessed. now ;-) It is hard to explain the wonderment
of twins. I checked out your site. Adorable babies - good job. Kudo's
for pumping. I found it really hard to pump with the twins. I don't
think I could do it all the time like that.


Thanks, Nikki! I've actually found pumping to be much easier than I thought
it would be. I can pump out a decent amount in a relatively short period of
time, so it's been a very efficient way for me to get BM into the girls.
(Plus, it's been very nice--and essential!--being able to allow other people
to feed the babies--something I wasn't able to do with my older DD, since I
exclusively nursed her.)

Mary


  #15  
Old October 29th 06, 04:52 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
Anne Rogers
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,497
Default Roll Call and Updates :)

I wondered. I remember your ealier post. You're such a good mama. I'll
be doing a happy dance if mine show signs of weaning anytime after 12mos.
I seem to produce milk obsessed munchkins.


yes well so was my first, but then I got pregnant with Ada and my milk
vanished, Ada has definitely been less keen after the 9 monthish stage, but
still likes to check in for a nuzzle, I'm glad I can do this for her, but it
really isn't difficult, or a tie, or anything like that.

That is such a cute age but I it must be really difficult for you :-(
Will you be able to continue seeing specialists here in the US?


theoretically I am able to and I've already found a PT who I think is going
to be helpful, but I haven't tracked down either a rheumatologist with the
relevant specialisms, or an orthopedic surgeon with the relevent
specialisms, I think I probably don't really need the latter, as my SPD is
definitely improving and I don't think I'd consider surgery, but I really do
need the former. I've arranged an appointment to see a regular doctor and
I'm hoping she may be able to give me a clue as to how to track someone
down.

Good luck with all the adjustments Anne. I've never lived more then 3hrs
from where I was born so I can't imagine adjusting to such big cultural
changes. It sounds exciting but stressful at the same time.


Ah well, I've spent all my adult life further way than that from "home", and
it was a big change intially as it was a leap across what in England is
known as the north south divide. I've spent time in the states before as
well as Korea in 2005. My parents have always lived in the north of england,
but my grandparents have lived many places, so in someways living away from
"home" is in my blood. Clearly there are cultural changes, but it's not as
much as you might think, it just so happens that some of my closest friends
in England were American (and infact one moved to Seattle 2 years before we
did), we also found that going to Korea gave us some of the American culture
shock, we prepared for the Korean stuff and it was the American stuff that
took us by surprise!

Cheers

Anne


  #16  
Old October 29th 06, 09:12 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
Chookie
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,085
Default Roll Call and Updates :)

In article ,
"Nikki" wrote:

Slow board. Lets see how everyone is doing!!


All is well here.

DS1 is 5.5 yo and in Kindergarten (that's the first year of formal schooling
here). He still occasionally BFs last thing at night, but I mostly try to get
out of it. At present I am in the throes of arranging for some curriculum
differentiation for him (gifted and talented), and he's going to take the
WSPPI-3 this week. He weights 20.7 kg and is tall too. Main interests:
trains and science.

DS2 is 17mo today and is BFing as I type. His vocabulary is increasing
(today's new word is "dance") and he said his first phrase at 15mo. He is
just big -- about 12.5 kg, I think, and solid with it. He is just going into
a growth spurt. He is also very cute -- the kind of toddler that people smile
at/wave at/kiss. Main interests: flirting with older women, meeting babies.

The boys have a lovely relationship, which I am really happy about. They are
also incredibly healthy, which I attribute to the good start the BFing has
given them. For example, DS1 first had antibiotics at age 4.5, and has not
been absent from school all this year.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue
  #17  
Old October 29th 06, 01:56 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
Nikki
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 486
Default Roll Call and Updates :)


wrote in message
oups.com...
We are doing great. My daughter, now 20 months, weaned a couple months
ago with little difficulty and we now have her sleeping all night (most
of the time) in a big girl bed in her own room! Worried about the
transition from our bed to her own room and bed all at once but it
turned out to be a non-issue.


Wow - that is great! Must have been the right time.

Just in time I suppose, I'm now almost 15 weeks with baby #2 (due April
2007) and am really looking forward to having another nursling. Also
looking forward to having some room in the bed to stretch out for a few
months until th enext little one comes along!


Congrats and enjoy the bed space :-) I love those April babies, lol.


--
Nikki, mama to
Hunter 4/99
Luke 4/01
Brock 4/06
Ben 4/06


  #18  
Old October 29th 06, 02:13 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
Spanannie
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1
Default Roll Call and Updates :)

DD just nursed for the last time on Oct 19. She is 2 years 4 months
old, so we had a pretty good run. DS, 4, nursed for 19 months, and quit
when I was 5 mos pregnant with his sister.

DD would have continued nursing forever, I'm sure, had I not weaned her.
She was using it as manipulation at the bedtime routine, since she
would refuse the milk during the appropriate time in the routine, until
the routine with both kids was done, and then she'd ask for it. This
hr-hr and a half routine was wearing me out. So, the last week, I'd
offer the milk and she'd refuse, so I'd tell her that was her chance and
put her down in her crib after that. She cried a little the first 2
nights, but never mentioned milk or mommy while crying; she was asking
for daddy, lol :-) It makes me wonder if she was really ready to give
it up a good while ago, and I was hanging on? Oh well, it ended
differently than I had imagined, but I am so relieved to be able to just
put her down for bed than the long song and dance we were going through
every night.

You're doing so great with your 4 boys. I'm impressed! Way to go, mom!

Annie



Nikki wrote:
Slow board. Lets see how everyone is doing!!

We are doing great. I've been posting since I nursed my first/Hunter.
Hunter is now 7yo and Luke is 5yo. They haven't nursed in years but I have
the twins now so I'm still around!

Ben and Brock are still nursing - yay! At their 6mo appt. Brock was 20lb
and Ben was 16lbs. IIRC Brock was 28 1/4" and Ben was 27 1/4" so both are
really long. Ben is in constant motion so I know why he is skinny He'll
be crawling soon. Brock is mellow. I doubt he'll be crawling anytime soon.
They have such different personality types. It is fun. Brock sleeps
through about 70% of the time but Ben is up 2-3 times a night. yawn They
are both enjoying their solids. I haven't had to give any bottles when I'm
not working. I was worried I would have to because they drink more then I
pump and they were getting fussy on the weekends. I think they had a growth
spurt and so have settled down a bit and they get more solids on the
weekends so that helps keep them content too.

How is everyone else?


  #19  
Old October 29th 06, 03:13 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
Nikki
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 486
Default Roll Call and Updates :)


"Chookie" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Nikki" wrote:

Slow board. Lets see how everyone is doing!!


All is well here.

DS1 is 5.5 yo and in Kindergarten (that's the first year of formal
schooling
here). He still occasionally BFs last thing at night, but I mostly try to
get
out of it. At present I am in the throes of arranging for some curriculum
differentiation for him (gifted and talented), and he's going to take the
WSPPI-3 this week. He weights 20.7 kg and is tall too. Main interests:
trains and science.


He sounds great! I have a ds that is interested in Science too....and
weather. I hope things get worked out at school so he enjoys it.

DS2 is 17mo today and is BFing as I type. His vocabulary is increasing
(today's new word is "dance") and he said his first phrase at 15mo. He is
just big -- about 12.5 kg, I think, and solid with it. He is just going
into
a growth spurt. He is also very cute -- the kind of toddler that people
smile
at/wave at/kiss. Main interests: flirting with older women, meeting
babies.


LOL. cute. That is a cute age.

The boys have a lovely relationship, which I am really happy about. They
are
also incredibly healthy, which I attribute to the good start the BFing has
given them. For example, DS1 first had antibiotics at age 4.5, and has
not
been absent from school all this year.


Wow that is great. It is nice to see siblings get along and form that bond.


--
Nikki, mama to
Hunter 4/99
Luke 4/01
Brock 4/06
Ben 4/06


  #20  
Old October 29th 06, 03:17 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
Nikki
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 486
Default Roll Call and Updates :)


"Spanannie" wrote in message

DD would have continued nursing forever, I'm sure, had I not weaned her.
She was using it as manipulation at the bedtime routine, since she would
refuse the milk during the appropriate time in the routine, until the
routine with both kids was done, and then she'd ask for it.


This is one reason that I'm not so good at nursing toddlers ;-) I just get
soooo frustrated with it all. Sounds like she was ready though..you did a
good job!

You're doing so great with your 4 boys. I'm impressed! Way to go, mom!


Well that is because I don't tell you all the parts where I suck, Lol.


--
Nikki, mama to
Hunter 4/99
Luke 4/01
Brock 4/06
Ben 4/06


 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
misc.kids FAQ on Allergies and Asthma (part 1/4) [email protected] Info and FAQ's 2 May 30th 05 05:29 AM
misc.kids FAQ on Allergies and Asthma (part 1/4) [email protected] Info and FAQ's 0 April 30th 05 05:24 AM
misc.kids FAQ on Allergies and Asthma (part 1/4) [email protected] Info and FAQ's 3 February 28th 05 06:27 AM
misc.kids FAQ on Allergies and Asthma (part 1/4) [email protected] Info and FAQ's 3 January 28th 05 06:45 AM
Roll Call ~ Who's Est. Due Date is in March? Carol Ann Pregnancy 14 March 16th 04 12:00 AM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 04:43 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 ParentingBanter.com.
The comments are property of their posters.