Pumping with a 12 month old

Anyone else’s baby loose it because you are pumping and they want their milk? When I use my Medela swing he attacks it and pulls the cord. When I’m pumping with my M5 and m6 he grabs my shirt and stares at it :joy: when he knows I’m done pumping, he’s loosing it with impatience. He latches 3-4 times a day but refuses in the morning. Apparently there is too much to do mama.

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My son is extremely jealous of the pump it’s actually really cute hahah he always is trying to take them off me

Also you look like you live but the pacific north west I want to say Washington or Canada

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That’s adorable. Yes I’m in British Colombia, Canada

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I use to go cherry picking there with buddy it was a lot of fun !! Gorgeous mountains

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That’s awesome. I love the mountains. It’s so beautiful

Your view is so pretty! My daughter is still too little to notice my pumps but my son didn’t like them either

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Thank you. Mine just discovered them :joy:

Have you tried pumping one side at a time so he can nurse while you’re pumping? I do this sometimes. I’ll just take one pump off when she wants to nurse, and put it back on when she’s done. It’s a great way to pump and carry your baby around as well. Be warned that he will probably still try to pull it off while he’s nursing though!

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I’ve done that when he was younger. He will only nurse right now in his room when he is tired. Otherwise he just wants a bottle

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That’s good he is at least still nursing part of the time so his saliva can signal to your body which anti bodies to make! Where youre at now is my plan for when my daughters teeth are all in between age 2-3 years. She won’t do a bottle though, she’s a straw sippy cup girl. I think she just doesn’t want to have to tilt her head back. Working smarter not harder!

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Yea I’m glad he will still latch for that reason. I have to hold his bottles still. He would prefer a straw cups but I did that with my oldest and it was a pain to clean. I have the sippy lids from dr browns and converted the bottles to sippy cups.

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yeah, the straws take forever to clean. I dread cleaning those darn things! That’s cool you got the conversion tops for the dr browns bottles. That makes all the difference if he’s used to that bottle

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Yea he took to them right away. I can also do the weighted straws on them too. But I use those with water as I’m scared of it getting suck on milk and not being able to clean it properly

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That’s good! Yeah, you have to clean them right away when you use them for milk. I’m paranoid about that too

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Omg my son also just stares . And when I would use the v1 pros he would try to grab the motor :sweat_smile:

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