Hi all, sorry if this has been asked before, but what are some tips for nursing through a pregnancy? I formerly stopped nursing my then 22-month-old when my breasts became too painful during pregnancy.
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Posted Dec 29, 2018, 10:32 AM UTC
Aversion was my greatest difficulty. We ended up night weaning because I couldn’t sleep through nursing any more and I was exhausted. During the day I made sure to have distraction ready for me - like reddit. And I would count for him. Sometimes even counting down from five was all I could do, but enough for him. DS was 3 1/2.
Is aversion not enjoying nursing anymore?
It is actively disliking nursing, with varying degrees of intensity for different people and for different nursing sessions.
For me I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin. I feel super touched out, it almost makes me nauseated.
Can wholly relate.
For me it’s a pretty intense feeling of hating that touch. It lasted through birth as well - but only applied to my older son. Now baby is 1 year and it’s not so bad, but I still don’t really enjoy DS nursing anymore.
I would that having something to read or listen to was really helpful. And my toddler sometimes doesn't latch well so using my finger to make sure his lips were curled out helped too.
Good luck! I had the hardest time in my second trimester. Now at 38 weeks and I don't mind him nursing.
Ah, the finger for the lip is good advice!!
I noticed after the first trimester it stopped hurting when I was nursing. Although maybe I just got used to the pain.
Ah, good to know...
This is tough. My best tips are a phone with data or wifi for distraction, and work on setting limits. My big limit was that at any point, I could count to ten and at ten we were done. When it was the worst I would sometimes pull my hair so I could last just the last ten minutes it would finally take for him to fall asleep.
Really it just sucked a lot for me. But my oldest has sleep apnea and night terrors, and nursing is the only thing that has gotten us any sleep at all most nights. So I feel like weaning would have been worse in our situation.
I didn't have a ton of pain, mostly aversion.
I watched a lot of Netflix on my phone with subtitles on and sound on low. Literally the only thing that distracted me enough.
I think I’ve seen distractions, biting your lip, limit the length
Thanks, this helps