breastfeed for 1 yr

So far the breastfeeding has been very straight forward. I breastfed exclusively for 6 months and am so pleased I achieved that with twins. The boys are now finally sleeping through the night from 7pm to 6am (thanks to some sleep training). And am back to work in 4 weeks so yesterday I cut out the 3pm feed and changed it to formula. But I intend to do the 7am and 7pm feeds still by breastfeeding. Fingers crossed!

I’m halfway there! There have been many times that I didn’t think I would make it this far, and there will probably be many more times that I think I won’t make it to a year, but I feel really good about making it to 6 months.

Plus, I love pumping!

No, not really!

I breastfed for only about 2 weeks with my daughter. Will be having baby #2 in about 7 weeks and really would like to perservere this time around.

I am trying really hard not to supplement, but I may have to. Every last bit I pump is going to daycare – I’m trying fenugreek and raspberry tea, and pumping as often as I can, but I feel like I cannot stay ahead of the game!

I guess I don’t have to give up since my goal doesn’t say, “breastfeed exclusively for one year.” But that’s what I really want…

My son is 7 weeks and I have been breastfeeding/pumping and supplementing with formula (formula only about 4 bottles a week. It is very time consuming, but I know how good it is for him. I hope I can make it. I have wanted to give up a few times, but I just keep telling myself one more week. It gets easier every week, it really does.

My son is 6 months old now. I want to feed him for 2 years ideally but 1 year is my first goal. We had lots of initial difficulty in the first 4 weeks, but now it is wonderful. I’m so glad I stuck with it.

I would like to give my child breastmilk as long as my body is able and he still needs it. One year is my first goal. If I surpass that awesome but I’m going for at least one year. The AAP reccomends 1 year, The WHO reccomends two, but one step at a time you know? Little man will be 4 months old tomorrow! Pumping and working is a drag but it’s all worth it to see that milky little smile at the end of the day.

She’s 11 months now. I’m still pumping. I went through a rough patch of supply issues because she was wanting milk every two hours. I had to supplement with formula a couple of times, but we made it through.

She’s finally starting to take solids more frequently now. She usually just eats whatever we are eating because she never really liked pureed baby foods too much. I’m considering still giving her breast milk past a year, but I’m not sure yet.

It’s been seven months. We never figured out the latch on issues but she gets breast milk through a bottle. We are slowly starting to introduce solids, she doesn’t seem too interested though and hasn’t mastered eating with a spoon and not pushing the food out.

The baby told me what he thought about stopping breastfeeding at 1 year. Last night, I was standing by his crib he grabbed my boob pulled it down, moved my bra out of the way and latched on.

It’ll be a year in 2 weeks and 3 days