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The Pedi said he is basically using me as a pacifier... I am his lovie essentially. She said there is nothing I can do to make him eat... he will eat when he is ready , but that at a year breast milk will not be enough... and that he should not be nursing more than every 5- 6 hours. He has associated nursing with sleep and as a result when he wakes as we all do periodically throughout the night he think he needs to nurse to go back to sleep.
During the day I feed breakfast with whole milk, a mid morning snack with watered down juice, lunch, a mid afternoon snack, and dinner we all eat when Papa gets home. He picks a little at everything. Honestly though our girl doesn't eat much more, but she does drink alot. She weaned herself at 15 months. I've started just putting a few pieces on his plate because it was suggested that he might be overwhelmed by the amount the Pedi thinks he should eat... but he doesn't even eat the smaller portion. I would take him two days to drink 4 oz of anything. The Pedi said her son was the same way and that if I wait to nurse him until after he has been offered food he is more likely to eat more. Everyone in the family thinks I should just quit nursing him like today... but that seems unreasonable. I am pretty ready to be done with it though... when I just got his mouth off my left boob there were teeth indentions from him holding on and gnawing ... thus the sore boobies.
At night I've usually put him in his bed and when he woke up sat in the dark in the glider and nursed while rocking and repeated this until around 3 am when I just cave and bring him back to bed.
He did sleep with us until Flint blew up about it and I realized that my husband needed me too...
The irritating part of this is that Flintsy was sleeping through the night in his bed better than he ever did in ours as recently as December, but we all got nasty respi viruses and then tummy bugs and coming out of all that we have our present situation. Prior to that he was ok with other folks... he has always hated shopping though.
I don't have much family help at the moment. My mother lives in Houston and the only available party in Flint's family is unavailable after dark... she will absolutely not watch the kids at night.
I will look into that book … thank you for the suggestion... you are welcome to post boob pics if you want though…. I did… tee hehe
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