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Is your baby ready to night wean? Well, that depends on your baby.
★ *˛ ˚♥* ✰。˚ ˚ღ。* ˛˚ 。✰˚* ˚ ★ *˛ ˚♥*

Let’s start this off by saying let’s take the idea of “sleeping like a baby” and put it where it belongs - in the trash. 🙌🏻💥Babies are designed to wake at night, it’s normal and it’s healthy. 💥🙌🏻

Here’s what we know:
* It’s normal and healthy for nighttime parenting & feeds to be needed/wanted well into the 2nd year.
* Helping baby back to sleep by breastfeeding is never a bad idea and does not cause habits. 🙌🏻
* Having a sleep association to our breasts is having a sleep association to ourselves, and we are here to help baby sooth and regulate their needs until they have reached that biological milestone. 💪🏼😍🥰
* Night weaning often takes months and can ebb and flow depending on emotional/physical needs like illnesses and change.
* Stopping breastfeeding to sleep and for naps does not help with night weaning, in fact it can make nights worse.

✨✨Typically it should not be recommended to restrict access to the breast overnight until well past their 7th-8th month as this is when solids are introduced ✨ ✨

The two big suggestions I hear about night weaning are:
1. Restricting breastfeeding in order to increase solids. This is always a bad idea and not one founded in logic. Remember that for at least the first year your baby will get most of their calories from your milk, so restricting calorie intake to force them to eat something that is not as nutritionally complete makes no sense.
2. Stay away from prescribed schedules like Eat, Play, Sleep. Problems often arise when we try and force our children to follow “rules” - every baby is different, every day is different.

Have questions about night weaning? PLEASE talk to your local IBCLC or local breastfeeding peer support group like @La Leche League & the aba. There is a LOT of bad information being shared by sleep consultants whose experience and expertise is not in lactation and breastfeeding.

Love Jenna
💜🤎🧡

★ *˛ ˚♥* ✰。˚ ˚ღ。* ˛˚ 。✰˚* ˚ ★ *˛ ˚♥*
Is your baby ready to night wean? Well, that depends on your baby.
★ *˛ ˚♥* ✰。˚ ˚ღ。* ˛˚ 。✰˚* ˚ ★ *˛ ˚♥*

Let’s start this off by saying let’s take the idea of “sleeping like a baby” and put it where it belongs - in the trash. 🙌🏻💥Babies are designed to wake at night, it’s normal and it’s healthy. 💥🙌🏻

Here’s what we know:
* It’s normal and healthy for nighttime parenting & feeds to be needed/wanted well into the 2nd year.
* Helping baby back to sleep by breastfeeding is never a bad idea and does not cause habits. 🙌🏻
* Having a sleep association to our breasts is having a sleep association to ourselves, and we are here to help baby sooth and regulate their needs until they have reached that biological milestone. 💪🏼😍🥰
* Night weaning often takes months and can ebb and flow depending on emotional/physical needs like illnesses and change.
* Stopping breastfeeding to sleep and for naps does not help with night weaning, in fact it can make nights worse.

✨✨Typically it should not be recommended to restrict access to the breast overnight until well past their 7th-8th month as this is when solids are introduced ✨ ✨

The two big suggestions I hear about night weaning are:
1. Restricting breastfeeding in order to increase solids. This is always a bad idea and not one founded in logic. Remember that for at least the first year your baby will get most of their calories from your milk, so restricting calorie intake to force them to eat something that is not as nutritionally complete makes no sense.
2. Stay away from prescribed schedules like Eat, Play, Sleep. Problems often arise when we try and force our children to follow “rules” - every baby is different, every day is different.

Have questions about night weaning? PLEASE talk to your local IBCLC or local breastfeeding peer support group like @La Leche League & the aba. There is a LOT of bad information being shared by sleep consultants whose experience and expertise is not in lactation and breastfeeding.

Love Jenna
💜🤎🧡

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Human Milk is Medicine. This is why breastfeeding through illness is important.
Here’s how to pull it off.
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✨✨✨ Nala and I are both sick with a temperature, chills and fever. I’m warm, achy and N wants to cuddle & feed.✨✨✨

Here’s what we know:

✨The act of breastfeeding suppresses the gag reflex.
✨Our breasts will warm up or cool down depending on the need of our child
✨Human milk is easily digestible so even when baby does vomit or spit up we know they’re getting all the water and nourishment they need
✨ Our bodies will continue to produce antibodies for 6-10 months after an Illness.
✨Studies tell us that while breastfeeding children still get sick they get less serious symptoms and recover faster.

✨✨✨It’s important to remember that we can continue to nurse our babies through most illnesses and when we are told by a healthcare professional that we “need” to wean or stop nursing it’s ALWAYS important to talk to your local #IBCLC ✨✨✨

👇🏼👇🏾👇🏿👇🏼👇🏿👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿👇🏾👇🏼
So how do i continue to nurse my sick 5 year old while dealing with my own symptoms? I get help from my partner, who brings me food and drinks in bed, the whole family is in our big bed, watching tv and eating snacks (slow things down to a stop 🛑 when you can). I’m treating Nala and myself as one person, when I drink water, she drinks water. When I have soup, I feed her from my bowl.
👆🏿👆🏼👆🏾👆🏿👆🏼👆🏾👆🏿👆🏼👆🏾👆🏿👆🏼👆🏾👆🏿

Love Jenna @logicallactation
IBCLC, Sleep support & Mama of two and currently nursing her 5 year old.

breastfeeding #chestfeeding #nursing #doula #midwife #lactation #logicallactation #lactationeducation #lactationsupport #parenting #preparingforbaby #newborn #breastfeedingtoddler #fulltermnursing #lovingparenting #gentleparenting #logicallactation #infantsleep #startingsolids #babyledweaning

★ *˛ ˚♥* ✰。˚ ˚ღ。* ˛˚ 。✰˚* ˚ ★ *˛ ˚
Human Milk is Medicine. This is why breastfeeding through illness is important.
Here’s how to pull it off.
★ *˛ ˚♥* ✰。˚ ˚ღ。* ˛˚ 。✰˚* ˚ ★ *˛ ˚

✨✨✨ Nala and I are both sick with a temperature, chills and fever. I’m warm, achy and N wants to cuddle & feed.✨✨✨

Here’s what we know:

✨The act of breastfeeding suppresses the gag reflex.
✨Our breasts will warm up or cool down depending on the need of our child
✨Human milk is easily digestible so even when baby does vomit or spit up we know they’re getting all the water and nourishment they need
✨ Our bodies will continue to produce antibodies for 6-10 months after an Illness.
✨Studies tell us that while breastfeeding children still get sick they get less serious symptoms and recover faster.

✨✨✨It’s important to remember that we can continue to nurse our babies through most illnesses and when we are told by a healthcare professional that we “need” to wean or stop nursing it’s ALWAYS important to talk to your local #IBCLC ✨✨✨

👇🏼👇🏾👇🏿👇🏼👇🏿👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿👇🏾👇🏼
So how do i continue to nurse my sick 5 year old while dealing with my own symptoms? I get help from my partner, who brings me food and drinks in bed, the whole family is in our big bed, watching tv and eating snacks (slow things down to a stop 🛑 when you can). I’m treating Nala and myself as one person, when I drink water, she drinks water. When I have soup, I feed her from my bowl.
👆🏿👆🏼👆🏾👆🏿👆🏼👆🏾👆🏿👆🏼👆🏾👆🏿👆🏼👆🏾👆🏿

Love Jenna @logicallactation
IBCLC, Sleep support & Mama of two and currently nursing her 5 year old.

breastfeeding #chestfeeding #nursing #doula #midwife #lactation #logicallactation #lactationeducation #lactationsupport #parenting #preparingforbaby #newborn #breastfeedingtoddler #fulltermnursing #lovingparenting #gentleparenting #logicallactation #infantsleep #startingsolids #babyledweaning

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