Tips for Breastfeeding and Milk Supply

Wow, our SPACE group is pretty 50/50, Im about to start PC when we get back from the States, but Lilla is the youngest one there by about a year so I wouldnt be surprised if none of them are still BFing (although wouldnt b surprised if any of them still are as well).
I guess at teh end of the day I parent how I want to, doing what I see is best for my daughter, and for us that is BFing for as long as she wants to. Ive ahd a couple of comments regarding weaning since Im pregnant, but I will actively encourage her to keep feeding since I wanted to get to at least 2 years, and even 18 months seems so little to not be BFing her any more.
I would hate to look back a year/5 years/20 years and wish I had done what I wanted to instead of reverting to peer pressure. But regret is a big thing for me, so it makes me feel that way...

I just put up with it, DD will get on, latch and suck for a bit, pull off and look around, suck, off, suck off.... Once my let down starts she is good. I try to be in a quiet area like her room or the couch, and have her looking at a blank wall My let down takes ages so its a real pain at times

Ok so DD has dropped another day feed, yet she still wants at least 1 feed at night. When will she no longer 'need' to feed overnight?

My DD is only 9th percentile and due to a number of reasons I stopped giving her formula top ups and just bf her. She's a happy healthy little girl and tbh if it weren't for plunkets growth chart I would be worried about her health at all.

I was just about to say that the plunket charts are for FF babies, I think for memory there is one for bf babies on Kellymom if you want to check it out.

I remember DS started off at around 80-90% on the plunket charts and then at about 4 or so months that started to taper off and he dropped to about the 50%, he now sits at around the 30%. sometimes I think those graphs cause more worry than necessary, the main thing to check for is that he isn't losing any weight, he is still happy and healthy Doesn't have any signs of dehydration or anything.
Remember that Not every child can be above the 50%

I was told by my LLL leader that plunket updated their charts in the 90's to being the WHO b/fed ones, but i have only heard from others that its still based on F/F. Very curious to know which is which now. Does anyone have a definitive answer? We have the opposite problem - DS is MASSIVE and we are told to stop demand feeding and put him on a feeding schedule and wean night feeds. Most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. Furious at plunket. My mom was told the same thing about my brother when he was DS's age as well. DS does not look at all fat, he is actually quite lean. Just apparently made of lead.

Bowie, thats nonsense! Silly plunket. My little brother grew off the top of the plunket charts, hehe. His book has comments like "spectacular weight gain". He was a right little roly porker

These days, he's a wiry, lean, tall 20-something-year-old in great health. Yeah, he had a few chubby stages growing up, but he grew up.

The trouble with those graphs is they seem to think everyone should track along the same percentiles all the time, which is nonsense. That's NOT what they say at all. All they say is that at one particular point, this is the distribution of babies weight. Of course some babies are going to have growth spurts at different times so that they chop and change their positions in the chart. We see it in livestock all the time. Why would humans be any different?

Aww hopes your having a girl?! Congrats!!!

*snap* congrats Hopes on having a pink one

My Plunket chart is a WHO chart, but I was talking to someone else (who had a baby after me even)and she had some odd Plunket NZ chart in her Plunket book and it wasn't the WHO growth chart. My book was apparently printed 2009, and the other book printed 2010. So it seems they kind of pull the books out of a pile in a back room somewhere, as well as changing the charts from year to year...