Comments on: Nursing Strikes http://drjaygordon.com/breastfeeding/nursing-strikes.html No one knows your child better than you do Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:56:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sarah http://drjaygordon.com/breastfeeding/nursing-strikes.html/comment-page-1#comment-1054 Sarah Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:01:25 +0000 http://bluehost.drjaygordon.altpixel.com/?p=175#comment-1054 Thanks. I'm not ready to give up my magic breasts yet - they send my little boy off to sleep nicely, so I'll be carrying on with bedtime and nighttime nursing for a while yet! Thanks. I'm not ready to give up my magic breasts yet – they send my little boy off to sleep nicely, so I'll be carrying on with bedtime and nighttime nursing for a while yet!

]]> By: Cheryl Taylor http://drjaygordon.com/breastfeeding/nursing-strikes.html/comment-page-1#comment-1029 Cheryl Taylor Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:58:34 +0000 http://bluehost.drjaygordon.altpixel.com/?p=175#comment-1029 SO glad you followed your very good instincts and put baby back to the breast! It's so hard to deal with nursing strikes because it IS very hard to separate how it feels to your heart from what your brain is telling you is the cause of the strike. You did well to know that a sudden cessation just didn't feel right (and ended up painful for you!) and that weaning happens in a different way. Pain in the mouth is often the cause of a nursing strike whether it be from teething, HFM or injury. That doesn't make it any easier for Mom to know why when you're in the middle of it! The sudden stop of prolactin can send the mom's system into a tailspin as well. As you are looking at where you want to go, or where your baby needs to go, with nursing...keep in mind the major brain growth that continues throughout the second year of life and that breastmilk is the only way to optimally support that brain growth. Even 1 or 2 nursings a day continues to provide power packed immunities from a body that is biologically designed to concentrate what a toddler needs into fewer nursings. As you progress in this year bear that in mind. The weaning process is best for mom and baby if it's allowed to follow the path of natural weaning that takes a slow path with nursings gradually spreading out and dropping off one by one. <a href="http://www.kellymom.com/bf/bfextended/ebf-benefits.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kellymom.com/bf/bfextended/ebf-benefit...</a> SO glad you followed your very good instincts and put baby back to the breast! It's so hard to deal with nursing strikes because it IS very hard to separate how it feels to your heart from what your brain is telling you is the cause of the strike. You did well to know that a sudden cessation just didn't feel right (and ended up painful for you!) and that weaning happens in a different way. Pain in the mouth is often the cause of a nursing strike whether it be from teething, HFM or injury. That doesn't make it any easier for Mom to know why when you're in the middle of it! The sudden stop of prolactin can send the mom's system into a tailspin as well.

As you are looking at where you want to go, or where your baby needs to go, with nursing…keep in mind the major brain growth that continues throughout the second year of life and that breastmilk is the only way to optimally support that brain growth. Even 1 or 2 nursings a day continues to provide power packed immunities from a body that is biologically designed to concentrate what a toddler needs into fewer nursings. As you progress in this year bear that in mind. The weaning process is best for mom and baby if it's allowed to follow the path of natural weaning that takes a slow path with nursings gradually spreading out and dropping off one by one.

http://www.kellymom.com/bf/bfextended/ebf-benefit…

]]> By: Sarah http://drjaygordon.com/breastfeeding/nursing-strikes.html/comment-page-1#comment-1027 Sarah Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:44:21 +0000 http://bluehost.drjaygordon.altpixel.com/?p=175#comment-1027 We have just come through a 7-day nursing strike (my baby is 11.5 months old), prompted by the hand, foot and mouth virus. I felt so awful when it started, as if he was rejecting me (we didn't know he had HFM until a few days later), and I had some bad advice about going cold turkey and letting him wean this way, leading to mastisis. Fortunately at that stage common sense kicked back in and I expressed at his normal feed times, and finally on day 7 he came back to the breast (and then spent all night attached....) The only other time we've had a strike is on the day when new teeth are erupting, but that only lasts 24 hours or so each time. We have just come through a 7-day nursing strike (my baby is 11.5 months old), prompted by the hand, foot and mouth virus. I felt so awful when it started, as if he was rejecting me (we didn't know he had HFM until a few days later), and I had some bad advice about going cold turkey and letting him wean this way, leading to mastisis. Fortunately at that stage common sense kicked back in and I expressed at his normal feed times, and finally on day 7 he came back to the breast (and then spent all night attached….)

The only other time we've had a strike is on the day when new teeth are erupting, but that only lasts 24 hours or so each time.

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