Pregnant & breastfeeding

Have any of u mamas been pregnant and breastfed? My 14m old has been EBF and is still on the boob. Just found out im pregnant and feel soo bad taking the boobie away, since my goal was up until he weaned himself off.. how do i go about it? Tips??

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How many feeds a day is he having?

most times its just for naps ( takes 2 naps during the day) and through the night. Sometimes in between naps just depending really.

Yes I’m 23 weeks pregnant and still nursing my 19 month old 1-2 x a day. She is slowly nursing fewer times a day and for less time at each nursing. In my first trimester she was nursing up to 7x a day!

It's up to you. Your choices are

1. Wean now ish, gradually (cut one feed at a time)
2. Commit to still feeding through pregnancy and commit to tandem feeding. Not every woman dries up in pregnancy. If you change your mind, do option 3 instead.
3. Keep feeding for now, pray you dry up in pregnancy and your little one self weans without fuss. If it doesn't work out like that, wean sometime in the pregnancy

Yeah still bf my 21 month old, while 12 weeks pregnant. Made some progress with reducing feeds and then she got really ill and I couldn’t deny her. Will try to reduce feeds again now that’s she’s over this illness but it is so hard to wean her off!

Do you think it’s true that in pregnancy your milk changes flavour? Apparently that’s what makes some babies wean

I was ebf and just kept going until my son decided to wean himself off. It was about the second trimester that he stopped breastfeeding

I’m really hoping my little girl will do that ! She’s really hard to wean off 😩

yeah I definitely got lucky cause I was dreading how to do it. There were some times that were a bit difficult but we cut day feeds first and then cut night feeds. He was a bit upset about it but also once we were only doing night feeds he would only latch for like 1 minute and then get upset and be done.

I think
It’s definitely true especially as you get later in pregnancy and start to produce colostrum, but some babies aren’t put off by it

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