my dd will be 2 @ the end of nov ~ she nurses off & on all day & *maybe* once during the night, but that is rare.

she would totally freak if i tried to wean her - she is very attached to her naa-naas :)

i have no probs continuing to nurse her at all, but OH WOW - my nipples are already pretty sore.

will that go away in time?

thanks for any info - i have never nursed thru a pg. or tandem nursed before - but am open to it.

I may not be much help b/c I gently weaned Owen when I was about 5mos pg. The soreness went away about the end of the first tri. for me, but my supply went down so far that he was working a dry well, so to speak. That wasn't exactly comfortable either. He was already night weaned by that point. I just made it a point to tell him that we could nurse at home when he wanted, but not when we were out. Then I gradually got to the point where we were out all day. Though he really loved his "meela" it wasn't really upsetting at all for him, I think he was basically ready, just nursing out of habit and for a good snuggle.

Anyway, that's my ramble. :D Congratulations on your pg!! :balloons:

Well I tried weaning Faith, and it worked except for first thing in the morning.. and she would wean off of that if MOMMY wasn't so darn lazy! *lol* She wakes up at like 6-6:30am and I'm SO tired, I just bring her in bed with me and cuddle and nurse so I can get that extra half hour. *lol* My nipples STILL hurt.. I have no idea why.. but they are cracked.. so I think thats why.. I just need to moisturize more I guess.. my supply totally went away by the time I was 4 or 5 months, couldn't squeeze anything out.. Faith never seemed to notice!! It was weird..

Just this past month I've been starting to get colustrum again.. so I kinda wonder what she thinks.. she has been wanting to nurse more lately though.. *lol* I haven't let her.. I know bad mommy.. ;)

No idea what I'm going to do when the baby is born yet.. guess we'll see what the future holds!

Best wishes!
~C

my ds is almost 3, and i'm 7 months pregnant. it's hurt on and off throughout, although he only nurses about 2-4 times a day, for a few seconds-- he must not be getting anything! although i still feel sorta "full" if he doesn't nurse at his usual time-- weird. anyway, the part that's worse than the pain-- and the pain is very minor, pretty bearable, btw except for in the first trimester, when i was gritting my teeth-- is that the hormones are making me "touched out" and very ornery! like, he's getting "sloppy" about nursing, prolly cuz he's not getting anything, anyway, and it's just for comfort, so he'll come off and on a few times, and it drives me *crazy*! but we're dealing. we'll see what happens after the baby comes. good luck!
alycia

I'm 8 weeks pregnant and nursing my 17 month old and my 3 year old a little. i nursed my 3 year old throughout my last pregnancy and the soreness never did go away until I gave birth. My dd nursed a LOT and it hurt a LOT!

Jenn

I am about 34/35 weeks pregnant. DD is 2.8 yrs old and nursing.

I have a somewhat unique situation in that DD only nurses on one side (has been that way since she was about 10 months old).

When my milk supply dropped around 4 or 5 months, I started feeling some pain from the CONSTANT nursing (on one side). It was difficult, but I got through it ok. My milk supply is still low. DD nurses quite frequently during the night and sometimes that is hard on me -- hard to sleep or feels a bit "ouchy" to me. I had the twiddling too. However, I really feel DD still needs to nurse and shows no signs of wanting to wean. I really want her to wean when she's ready...not on my time table.

You may here negative things about nursing whilst pregnant. My neighbor (your step SIL!) frequently tells me how it could be dangerous for pregnancy or hard on DD if I have to wean her if tandem nursing doesn't work out. I here it from other people too. I am trying to have a realistic view of what to expect from tandem nursing...reading positive stories but realizing that some people do have a hard time with it for whatever reason. Knowledge is power.

I'll let you know how tandem nursing goes for me if DD doesn't wean by the time this baby is born!

yes, I visited fertility friend too!!!

Anyway, I ran out of milk or something, haven't had it for at least a month, but Louis still nurses anyway, usually at naptime and nighttime, maybe once or twice during the night. And oh man, does it EVER hurt. Once he's latched on for awhile it's not so bad, but in the beginning it's sheer hell and brings tears to my eyes. I probably will continue part-time nursing him until he wants to quit. I felt bad enough reducing feedings to what they are now!

the same age as your DD, he'll be 2 in mid Dec. I'm 24 weeks now, it was really hard the first trimester. Nursing doesn't hurt so much anymore but Iget that skin crawling feeling (hurts me to say that :( about my baby) but we've made it so far. A mama suggested (has really helped here) that when he asks and I really don't want to I tell him he can nurse for 10, and then we count to 10. He's is totally fine with it most of the time, sometimes he wants 10 on the other side lol. Thats what he calls it now, he comes up to me and says "Ten".
I also wanted to say there is a book out Adeventures in Tandem Nursing, has alot of info on nursing during pregnancy. I love this book, has been very helpful!!! It's a LLL book by Hilary Flowers.
:D Congrats, and best wishes!!

Tucker was 15 mos when I got pg w/ Griffin. He was nursing a TON at that time. It hurt like hell from the beginning, and, I hate to say it, but didn't go away until I had Griffin. :( There were days I just sobbed because it was so uncomfortable. I tried to get him to cut back, but he never really did, and I just didn't have the heart to wean him, he seemed like such a baby to me.
My milk dried up around 4 months, but it didn't deter the little man at all. He acted like nothing had changed. Then when colostrum came in, he hated the taste --- would suck, smack his lips and go "Ick!" but then giggle and latch right back on:rolleyes: (I swear, vinegar could come out of my boobs, and he'd just swig it down)
So needless to say, on the third day after Griffin was born, my milk came in BIG TIME, and Tucker was overjoyed. Now I am officially tandem nursing, and it hasn't been easy, as Griffin is a nonstop nurser, but it's getting a little better day by day.....
Oh, btw, the pain was totally gone the minute I had Griffin. I mean, I nursed Tucker that morning and it was incredibly painful. That night, I nursed Griffin and there was noooo discomfort. So I thought maybe it was because G was a newborn and T nursed harder. He came to see me in the hospital the next morning, less than 12 hrs after I had G, and nursed, and it was fine....totally painless.
Didn't mean to write a novel!!
Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS again!!!

Originally posted by LaVieBoheme
Just this past month I've been starting to get colustrum again.. so I kinda wonder what she thinks.. she has been wanting to nurse more lately though.. *lol* I haven't let her.. I know bad mommy.. ;)

LOL! Same here mama! My dd is 2y.7mo. and I only let her nurse for nap and bedtime.She actulally weaned herself to that when my milk dried up,but when my colostrum came in she started asking for it several other times a day! Also since it has come in she wants to nurse for much longer periods of time!For me too,it has hurt off and on throughout.Dd actually had to learn to fall asleep cuddling or holding hands since there were many times where I would have to tell her to stop when they were sore.I would have to say that for the majority of the time they weren't sore.It is just when they were sore it seemed to last a eternity!

I have a nursling who is very attached, LOL. She will be 2 in mid Dec. Since I got pregnant, she wants to nurse all the time. Maybe my supply has started dropping or something already, I dunno. Anyway, I'm thinking about night weaning her because I really need to get more sleep and I can't sleep through her nursing anymore. :(

Me too! Erik is about the same age, 2 mid-November. When I got pg, he was nursing 6-8 times a day or so (but was mostly night-weaned, though sometimes he did when he was teething) It started hurting pretty bad when I was about where you are now....and only got worse :( But then, right around the 12 wk mark, when nausea and fatigue left, it got somewhat better. my milk is gone too, has been for at least a month, and my supply dropped almost immediately. It still hurts a lot, but if I can make it the first 5 seconds, it normally gets better.

Oh, I forgot...I gently encouraged Erik to nurse less when it started hurting so badly...I would offer other things first when he asked to nurse (playing a game, going outside, eating if it were near mealtime, water, etc...) and only nursed him if he persisted. We also perfected the "one more minute" technique...that helped a lot, as he's pretty good at it unless he REALLY needs to nurse, in which case I just grit my teeth. He now nurses at nap time (to sleep and when he wakes up in his nap to get back to sleep--he's not the best napper, and he'll wake up 2-4 times), and first thing in the morning (I'm lazy too--he wakes up between 4:30-5:30, and the only way I can get him to sleep until 6, my preferred wake-up time, is to nurse him back to sleep...) I don't see that leaving though...unless he cuts out his nap and I get used to a 5 am wake up call!

it's pretty cute, though--he'll negotiate if he's not done after one minute, ask for 5 more minutes ;) And if he's feeling out-of-sorts, he'll go climb into his bed and ask to nurse...oh, that's something someone told me, that the hardest part for her was the uncomfortable feeling she got with her nursling in a cradle hold to nurse. Before I was pg, it was virtually the only way I nursed him (just worked well for us...), so I gradually transitioned to only nursing when side-lying.

Sorry, this got long! HTH, and Congrats!

Wow, there's a lot of us! :)

The pain was pretty intense for me during the first trimester, but it's better now. But Eli's 2 and he's really slowed down. Usually he'll come into my bed first thing in the morning (like 5:30!) and nurse, but this morning, I was really sleepy when he came in and ignored him to see what he'd do. He climbed up onto the hope chest, climbed up onto the bed, walked over, fell on me, and I opened the covers so he could get in, and he snuggled up on my arm with his back to me and went back to sleep! :eek: He did ask to nurse later when we got up, but I made "real" breakfast (eggs & sausages & toast & juice) today, so it never happened. He hasn't nursed yet today, and he's upstairs for nap time now. --Not sleeping, mind you, I hear Brianna reading him a book, lol.

If nursing is bothering me, and I need him to be done, I say, "Pop!" and he'll usually laugh and unlatch for me. Sometimes when he's done nursing, he'll say "Pop!" It's very cute. :D

Originally posted by grtlyblesd
If nursing is bothering me, and I need him to be done, I say, "Pop!" and he'll usually laugh and unlatch for me. Sometimes when he's done nursing, he'll say "Pop!" It's very cute. :D

That is too cute!:D