#bfar

My son is still nursing in the evenings and while I’m home with him on the weekends and the day I work from home. I’ve cut out pumping at home for awhile now and I’ve been gradually dropping the work pumping sessions for a couple months now.

Are killing me!

We cosleep and I feel like my son is up the entire night nursing. He is 11 months now and I am not sure how to ween him from this habit. Going into this tax season already as a sleepless zombie is not going to be fun.

Gpoyw pumping edition

I actually think we a jumping around these phases. Some days when he’s nursing he will pull off and look at me, or put his hand in my face just to make sure I’m looking at him.

I think right now we are juggling #9 and #10. He’s attached to my boob most of the night. It’s hard for me to get ready for work in the morning because he will continue nursing when I should be getting up to shower. I’ve been late a few times the past couple weeks.

His new thing is digging into my shirt to get out my boob. He prefers the right side, but the left side is the producer. Once he decides he’s good with the right, he’s reaching in to get the left one.

This is such a huge deal for me. When I had my breast reduction over 4 years ago I was in a completely different place in my life. I certainly had no intention of having anymore babies and I was headed in an entirely different direction. During my pregnancy I knew that breastfeeding may not be an option, but I remained optimistic and researched as much as I could.

The first two months of breastfeeding were very difficult for me. My milk came in much slower than it had for my previous babies and my son didn’t have the best latch. I ended up having to supplement with formula and I was devastated. I was an overproducer before and I was struggling to accept I was underproducing. After much determination and round the clock pumping and nursing, I managed to increase my production and stop supplementing by 7 weeks post partum.