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My twins are now 13 1/2 months and are still breastfeeding. We are now at 3x a day. I am quite pleased and feel no urge to stop just yet, especially that they are having cow's milk allergy issues. I breastfed my son for 11 1/2 months so we're past that now. Yay!

I was just planning on breastfeeding the girls for at least a year and was planning on fully weaning this month in preparation for an 8 hour drive to a sister-in-law's wedding. But the wedding got postponed, so I decided to just take my sweet time with the weaning process. But currently, I don't mind at all so we may keep going.

I am currently breastfeeding my four month old daughter. From around 8 weeks she was sleeping around 8 hours straight each night before waking to feed. For the last few weeks she has been waking more often in the night to feed. This has coincided with a reduction in the amount of poo she produces (did not poo for 33 days!!!) I suspect it has something to do with lower milk supply (as I had been doing alot of exercise...) Any ideas of what I can do to increase my milk supply - I have ceased exercising to lose weight and have increased my calories... (pediatrician said no poo was ok because baby was breastfed....)

Just wanted to say hi! and not lurk lol i dont currently have any children,hoping to start ttc in a yr and a bit, hoping to breastfeed when bub is born just looking for advice before i take the parenthood plunge...knowledge is power after all! =)

not trying to take away from this great group, BUT i emailed the breastfeed ass with a question and they were great! prompt to answer back too, so if you need more info they are good too. www.breastfeeding.asn.au

This question is a little hard to put in words but i'll do my best...Scott is 4 months old and feeding well, however for the past month or so on one breast he has been acting a little strange.  When he is feeding from my right breast he always pushes his face deep into my breast and then pulls his head and my nipple back, stretching it beyong belief, he will do this the whole time he is on this side.  It is quite painful when he stretches it out and i end up with a shooting pain in my breast.  He also spends less time feeding on this side.  Both breasts fill up evenly so i don't think it is a lack of supply to one side but i do have trouble expressing from this side.  someone suggested that it may take longer to 'let down' on that side but i can never feel the let down so am unsure.   Does anyone have any idea's why he does this?

I woke up this morning with a very blocked milk duct, I've never had one before and I'm wondering if anyone has any great ideas for getting rid of them, I've read to massage them down during and after feeding and to use warm compresses before feeding.

Can you get rid of it in one feed or is it a process? Any more ideas for getting rid of it?

it is sooo painful, please help, I really don't know what I am doing.

i have been successfully breastfeeding for four months and decided to express some milk to have on standby in the freezer and so dad could help out with feeds now and then, i bought a manual pump (Avent) but i could only get 20mls at the most at a time from one breast and nothing from the other, i decided to hire an electric pump (Ameda) and i have the same problem 20 mls from one side, the milk flows for a few minutes then stops, but i get  nothing from the other side. this even happens if i am expressing when he has missed a feed so there is plenty there it just wont come out.  Are there some people who are just unable to express their milk?

My twins have 4 teeth on top and 2 on the bottom, but it's only lately that their teeth have been hurting me while they are breastfeeding. They are sharp and annoying, but the thing is, they don't hurt me all the time, plus it seems to be happening more with Jojo than Katie.  I thought maybe it has to do with the latch, so I unlatch and put Jojo back on, but it doesn't help. And like I said, it doesn't even happen every feeding.  I figure it has to do with position.

Have any of you, found a way/position or whatever else that is helpful in order to prevent their teeth from hurting the breast?

I suspect that my 19 month is just power crazed, but I thought I would see if this has happened to anyone else, or if you can hazard a guess as to why she's doing it (other than because she can)?

Soph has discovered how to ask me to swap her from one breast to the other (she flings herself up and down in a head banging action while saying "ddd ddd" or attempts a "sss" sound).

Problem is, she can swap sides every couple of minutes, which is annoying. After a few swaps I will usually tell her "no more swap sides" and try to stick to it. Sometimes she accepts that, sometimes she doesnt.

So, power crazed, foremilk addict, am I running low, any ideas?

I am just wondering what worming tablets you can take whilst B/F? i did my Family but couldnt do me and I am always craving sweets. Anyone have any ideas?

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