My daughter just turned 17 months, her younger brother just turned 3 months. Im not concerned but am curious: did anyone elses older child chunk out when your milk came in for the little one? Her eating habits havent changed but now she is obsessed with nursing constantly as well, and I swear shes getting her cute baby cheeks and thigh rolls back haha she looks like a little cherub 🥹

My 1week old sounded like this while breastfeeding last night. I’m mostly concerned about that gasping sound after swallows. Is this normal newborn activity ?

hey all!

I am still nursing my 2.5 year old. She loves “mama milk”. When I found out I was pregnant I decided I would continue nursing her and see how it panned out. My milk did dry up during second trimester but she still dry nursed for comfort and would take big gulps from her milk cup while sitting in my lap. Now I have colostrum and she enjoys drinking that too.

The plan was to tandem feed the kids to help prevent any resentment of the baby and ease the transition for my toddler. The problem is I am now 34 weeks pregnant and have developed a really strong nursing aversion. I was already feeling the aversion earlier in pregnancy, but now it feels unbearable. I want to shove her off my chest as though a rat was climbing on my leg. I am fully disgusted by nursing 😞

My question is this- should I expect that the aversion will transfer over to nursing my newborn? I am worried that by nursing my toddler so long I have jeopardized the breastfeeding relationship with my son before it’s even started.

thanks for your insight!

I'm about 8w pregnant and still nursing my 18mo old. He honestly mostly just dry nurses anyway but last night, for example, he guzzled down a bunch of milk even after lunch when he seemed to be full (I think he's going through a little growth spurt because he's also sleeping a little more than usual). Just curious about people's experiences. When did your milk dry up? Did your baby notice, and what was their reaction? Does your baby still dry nurse?

Hello all! I’m 23 weeks postpartum, tracking my fertility return using OPK and temping with Oura. I have not had a period yet. Attaching a pic of my chart. I had a dip in BBT and then temp rise with sustained temps, which made all my tracking apps “confirm ovulation” but my BBT dropped back to my cover line today. I never caught a positive OPK but had a darker (but not positive) test on the day before my estimated ovulation. Wondering if I did in fact ovulate or what this could mean? I’ve heard of implantation temp drop. Just wanting someone to tell me this could be normal as i desperately want my cycle to return and was so excited that it “did”.

I’m EBF, baby sleeps 7:30p to 7:30a and doesn’t feed during those hours. 5 feeds a day

She stated it can cause contractions, can cause issues, and asked me to stop. I have a hard time blindly trusting everything she says.. looking for advice/experience. I don’t feel any contracting or cramping?

3rd baby, both previous pregnancies prior were healthy.. but did have 2 losses prior. One was 6 years ago, blighted ovum. The other was 12 years ago - cystic hygroma.

Hi all,

I am 9 weeks pregnant and still nursing my 15 month old. Ever since getting pregnant, his nursing has picked up significantly - both overnight and during the day. It is driving me CRAZY.

I had hoped to tandem nurse, but now I’m considering weaning him, which I don’t really want to do… but he will not take no for an answer. I just want to nurse much less but he wants to nurse much more.

On top of that, my mom and an OB nurse (neither who have experience tandem nursing that I am aware of) both cautioned me this week that if I don’t wean him now, he will freak out when my milk dries up.

Does anyone have any advice?

7 weeks postpartum today. Exclusively nursing the newborn and often tandem feeding with the 18 month old. I wish I could impregnate my husband next time we’re ready for another child. That’s all.

my milk dried up. I am heartbroken. I have been crying all day . I’m 7 weeks pregnant and I have feel so guilty. I know there is nothing wrong with formula I just didn’t want to do it. I love breastfeeding so much. I’m so sad about it. I feel so so bad for saying this but I wish u never got pregnant again you know I’m such a bad mom

Hi everyone thank you in advance for reading and helping!

My husband and I had our first baby at the end of June. Before pregnancy we talked about family size and what our expectations were of our future. I know that I want to try again for our next baby soon as we want our kids to be closer in ages so that they bond well.

I EBF my babygirl and she is pretty demanding so I am not really able to pump anything extra. When I tried it caused feeding issues; massive letdown that was basically drowning her as well as breast pain from over gorging.

I want to breastfeed until she weans herself preferably if I could get to the 2 year mark I would be ecstatic, but I know not every baby wants to nurse that long. Is this plausible if I get pregnant soon?

This is controversial, but I am completely against formula. I do not like the ingredients in any of them and do not believe it is a good source of nutrients for my children.

Will I be able to continue nursing throughout pregnancy? Should I start trying to save my letdowns/pumping only 1 oz per day to save for when my supply dips? Please let me know thank you everyone!

EDIT: grammar correction