Quick vitex question

[atomic sagebrush]

Thank you for sharing your experience too. I'm feeling kinda silly and maybe a little selfish for wanting to move this forward.

Is your lo sleeping through the night? I think that's why brought my cycles back with ds3.
Maybe I'll get lucky and little man will follow suit.


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Oh no no please don't feel bad, sometimes I have to "talk tough" to get people's attention when I feel like it's important but I didn't mean to imply you would do anything to harm your baby in any way. just wanted to express that it's important not to take the V.

[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

I'm steering clear of it - tucked it away for later.
My initial goal is to gather as much info as I can and work out a plan. When that plan will be executed is in the hands of a higher power. Maybe it never will happen, as I've lost before and time is certainly a concern.


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[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

I have a friend who had 2 girls 14mths apart while nursing. Her oldest was sleeping all night and only nursed every 4hrs during the day. If you can try to slowly extend the feeding times... 15mins everyday. If bub eats every 2hrs today then tomorrow 2hr 15m, and 2hr 30m, etc.

As far as herbs and supps while nursing it sometimes may look like your bub is growing, healthy, and so on. But you do not know the long term affects. My uncle, brother, and many friends all had fertility issues and had no choice but to use expensive medical treatments to have kids. I do know that my brother had allergies as baby and the Dr's put him on Soy Formula. And several friends of mine also have dairy allergies and only drink Soy milk and they either have been trying for years and years or they stopped soy milk for 3mth and got preg (wife).

So if soy.... something many think is perfectly safe and better to drink then milk... can have that affect. Then what can Vitex do to a growing baby. How will it affect the bub in the furture.

I sure hope he starts sleeping through - he's soooo close - sometimes he does (6hrs or so), but it's rare, ESP bc we cosleep 😏 little monkey smells it and roots for it in his sleep (keeping everyone awake lol)

But ya he's napping better so sometimes I get a decent break in the day. My hopes for October Ttc are pretty unrealistic - guessing I'm looking at next spring in reality.


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[atomic sagebrush]

I'm steering clear of it - tucked it away for later.
My initial goal is to gather as much info as I can and work out a plan. When that plan will be executed is in the hands of a higher power. Maybe it never will happen, as I've lost before and time is certainly a concern.


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That is what I did when I got pg at 41 1/2. I just sent the message out to whatever higher power was listening and said 'I am turning this over to you and I TRUST that you will do right by me, whatever that may be - baby or no baby, boy or girl' and whenever I felt panicky or scared that it wouldn't happen I just did it again and tried to get back to that feeling of peace where I felt like I was in bigger hands. It did take awhile but it worked in the end.

[blueeyedguys]

I really don't suggest stretching out feeds for a 3 mth old. Especially when you're about to hit the dreaded 4 month sleep regression/nursathon. lol

And I don't know about anyone else, but my kids never had that kind of nursing schedule, anyway. They nursed at completely random intervals for complete random amounts of time, although they usually had a longer time nursing every 90 minutes or so. Sometimes with, sometimes without "snacks" in between. I do full on ecological breastfeeding & have somewhat reduced supply from untreated/poorly treated hypothyroidism, though.

Technically 6 hours IS sleeping through the night. 5 hours night time sleep in a row is the definition for a baby sleeping through the night.

[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

I really don't suggest stretching out feeds for a 3 mth old. Especially when you're about to hit the dreaded 4 month sleep regression/nursathon. lol

And I don't know about anyone else, but my kids never had that kind of nursing schedule, anyway. They nursed at completely random intervals for complete random amounts of time, although they usually had a longer time nursing every 90 minutes or so. Sometimes with, sometimes without "snacks" in between. I do full on ecological breastfeeding & have somewhat reduced supply from untreated/poorly treated hypothyroidism, though.

Technically 6 hours IS sleeping through the night. 5 hours night time sleep in a row is the definition for a baby sleeping through the night.

Yep he nurses on demand, (all my boys did) and demands it A LOT lol (all my boys did lol) and lots of comfort nursing. Thanks for reminding me about the dreaded 4 Month sleep regression. Good times lol


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