On Wednesday I was nursing Miles and his really sharp 8th tooth coming in was really hurting me whenever I nursed him. It's a top tooth. I jumped while nursing him because the tooth sunk into my skin and he started crying like crazy. I calmed him down and he kept nursing while I gritted my teeth through the pain. But it happened again later on and he cried again and he won't nurse now. 10.5 months of nursing and now I pull my boob out and he cries and cries. This sucks. I have been pumping 3-4 times a day ever since and I keep trying but he just keeps crying. He has still been nursing one time a night these days but even then he won't nurse. He woke up 3 times last night and I tried every time but nope. He just wanted to be held a bit. I am so sad and frustrated. I don't want him to be done nursing for good :( Oh and the other weird thing is that I have been trying to get him to drink a bottle since like October and he refuses every time but now that he is on a nursing strike he will happily drink my milk from a bottle. What the heck?!
So yeah, I am hoping that he starts nursing again very soon. And until then I will continue to pump. I have been able to pump about 16-18 ounces a day at least and I am giving him a bit of whole milk. If he does this for a while I guess I will just switch him over to whole milk when he turns one? I am not really sure. I tried a few different things to get him to try nursing (singing, rocking him, etc) but nothing worked. Apparently this is common for his age. I know one woman whose baby did this for 10 days. And another woman who is also going through it right now. Weird eh?
I have good news too! Miles is on the move! He gets across the room by a combination of bum shuffling, sitting and turning in a circle and going on his chest. He will go on his chest and then go backwards until he is sitting over and over in different directions and voila, just like that he's moved. It's nice and slow which is good for me and it makes him happy that he can get into all the toys. For a while he was getting onto his chest and then would get stuck and cry so it's nice he figured it out. Oh and I went grocery shopping today and he was charming everyone by doing that cute little wave babies do where they are really waving to themselves lol. He's so smart! Mike went out tonight and was saying bye to us all and Miles just started waving completely unprompted :)
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