Breastfeeding At 10 Months Old

As Chloe is getting closer and closer to the 1 year mark I have been reflecting a lot lately on our breastfeeding journey and how far we have come since those first few difficult days. I am so forever grateful for this experience, breastfeeding my daughter has been so beautiful and special to me and I cant say enough how blessed I feel for being able to experience it. I am so proud of Chloe and myself and so grateful  for all the incredible support my husband has shown me throughout this journey. Our plan is to let Chloe decided when she is done nursing, I can only hope and pray we still have a ways to go on this journey of ours.

At 10 months old nursing is very different then it was when Chloe was a newborn. Some of the things she does now honestly cracks me up. For instance, she will dive her face into my chest or lift up my shirt to let me know she wants milk, she gets really, really excited when she sees me getting ready to nurse her and starts panting, Chloe constantly is moving these days even while nursing, and she loves to nurse while sitting up. Other things that are much different now is that our nursing sessions are much shorter then they used to be and only lasting around 5 minutes and since Chloe has teeth now she has bitten me a few times and yes it really, really hurts.

There are a few things that are still very similar to those newborn days, Chloe still nurses often throughout the day, if she is tired she will fall asleep while nursing and also breastfeeding is still very comforting to her so if she's in pain from teething, got hurt while playing, or just needs some extra love and attention the one thing that always calms her down and makes her happy is breastmilk.

I love the special bond Chloe and I share through breastfeeding and am excited to see what else lies ahead for us on this amazing journey!

If  you are breastfeeding or were breastfeeding I would love to hear how your experience changed the older your child got, leave me a comment below!

The Happiest Day

On June 14th 2011 my beautiful daughter Chloe Madison was born. She arrived into this world via c-section at 11:26 pm. Chloe weighed 9lbs 1oz and was 21 3/4 inches long. Chloe is such a blessing to Mike and I and we absolutely love being her parents!

The birth of my daughter went nothing as planned. My husband and I planned to labor and deliver at a birth center with our midwives but, instead we ended up at the hospital with doctors and nurses we had never met before, we had planned to have an un-medicated birth but, ended up needing to be induced and then later on needing to get an epidural, we had planned on me delivering vaginally but instead ended up having a c-section. Mike and I always agreed though that the most important thing to us is that our daughter would be safe and healthy, and in the end that's exactly what we got. Chloe is so beautiful and is as healthy as can be! The day my daughter was born was the sweetest day in the whole wide world  for me!