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I found with both of mine (extended breastfeeders) they would only bite at the end of a feed, so once I could see they were going to bite that was the end. They only did it a few times, but after that they stopped. I am not even sure if I remember dd biting more than once.

I'm on my second breast fed baby. I nursed my daughter for 25 months. My son is almost 15 months and shows no signs of wanting to give it up. I am working on night weaning though because in a couple months I'll start to get huge (currently 15 weeks pregnant) and we only have a full size bed so I won't have the room to be comfortable nursing a toddler at night.

I had no problems nursing my daughter and was so blessed to have that experience. Nursing my son has been more challenging as I've had 2 bouts of mastitis with him but we persevered through!
The bottom teeth aren't a problem cos the baby's tongue sticks out over them nursing. My son does seem to need a period of adjustment after he gets new teeth though and does the scraping a little.

Grr, I hate when people make comments like this. Number 1 it's none of their business and number 2 it just shows how ignorant they are of breastfeeding. Breasting is more than just nutrition. Formula ONLY provides nutrition so it makes sense to "get rid of the bottle" at 1 year because the child no longer (for the most part) needs what formula provides them any more. Breast milk is so much more than just "good food". Infact the longer you breast feed the more benefits you get from it and there are plenty of benefits into the toddler years to keep doing it passed one year.

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Are there any other moms bf a preschooler?

For those of you with mom or MIL issues---just wait as you nurse longer and as your children get bigger--they will likely be just as staunch in their beliefs about how wonderful BFing is---as the seemed against it.

It's really actually a cool change to witness!

LOl for those who don't know I'm nursing baby #5. I've been nursing basically for the last decade. A is 10 1/2 months old. He is the first of my babies to have any formula at all---and now gets like 1 or 2 bottles a day--but nurses the rest of the time. He also loves to eat food. So I don't know that we'll nurse past 18 months.

Yesterday was 5 months of nursing for me and Lukey!!!!

I am the first in my family on both sides to BF. And I must say, at first everyone was like, you will do that for two days to a week and be done with it! And five months later I am still holding strong!!!! ((Although I will admit, I am counting down the days until he starts to get some spoon food, just so that way I am not crazy worried about my milk supply not keeping up))

I am going on 3 months of BF my son Reuben. The beginning was quite rough...lots of toe-curling pain. But we kept going and things are okay now. The only thing that drives me nuts is that Reuben absolutely loves to suckle...he would be on the breast all day if he could. It makes it really hard for me to tell when he's actually done nursing.

Well, mine is 5 months now and still breastfeeding. In the first couple of months I really didn't get all the hype. It was more of a burden then anything and I didn't feel like it was helping me bond. However now it's so sweet when she nurses, I'd be really sad if I had to stop.

We've had a milestone to overcome that still hasn't changed, the difference is I'm not worrying about it so much.

I've posted before but she'll nurse 2-3 times in am, but around 3 pm and for the rest of the evening she goes on a breast strike. So I give her a bottle because she's hungry and hard to console. This is puzzling isn't it? So I give her a bottle and pump (which I still need to do) and now she's getting formula when she gets to bottle because she's eating far more then I'm pumping. In the late evenings before I go to bed I'll get her up and nurse her, and she'll nurse easily at that time. It's just her last 2 feedings sometimes 3 that she'll absolutely refuse.

I get tempted to just hold out and not give her a bottle at all in the evenings, but I give in. Tonight I gave in though had a feeling I shouldn't have. She'll eat 6-8 ounces and I pump 4-5 ounces, sometimes only 2-3 ounces in the evenings.

Part of what keeps me from holding out and trying to wean her from her evening bottles is that I am not home every evening. I work atleast 3 evenings a week, and my rationale is that even if I held out on my days off... she'll still get the bottle on the days I have to work, so what's the point.

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I'm pregnant now and due in May and I really want to breastfeed...

It does scare me a little, although i'm sure everything will be good once we start!!!

Any advice for a new mum, having her 1st baby???

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His Blood, here are some suggestions:
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/concerns/...east.html#coax

I too work and am away from my baby for regular periods of time, but I would still offer the breast rather than the bottle.

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thanks, I offer it, but she refuses. For some reason at that time she will fuss and fuss and it's obvious she wants the bottle.

I can try to hold out.. but my point is that I'm not home all week so that she will consistantly not get a bottle, and I don't know if that will defeat my attempts to not give her a bottle until she gets so hungry that she'll take the breast.. because then the next night i'll have to work, and she'll get the bottle anyways? Make sense?

HB

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You will be in my prayers for your hope, strength, and healing.
Trust more in God's power than your weakness; with Him all things are possible!

Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us, and increase Your mercy in us, so that in difficult moments we might not despair, nor become despondent, but with great confidence, submit ourselves to Your Holy Will, which is Love and Mercy itself. Amen

"youre pearls of wisdom are unmatched by any person i have seen on this forum .. "