I am feeling a bit confronted by feeding my toddler atm. She is wanting to feed more and more and for looooooong periods of time (like an hour). I have limits around it- like we only feed at sleep times and I try and limit it to half an hour, but she screams for more when I take her off. She is also stroking my breasts more.
The other thing is her poo. Seriously it is so gross she is toilet trained, well potty trained, but I have to use a zillion wipes to clean her up, not to mention cleaning out the sticky poo from the potty *shudder*.
Ds feeds two hourly 24/7, so I think I am just getting touched out, but I am starting to think about weaning her....
Feeding a nearly 5yo here, I soooo hear ya! DS has been limited for some time now - when I've started to have enough I count down the sucks. I was starting at about 4, but that was creating lots of angst, so now, at the suggestion of an ABA counsellor who fed older children, I'm counting down from 10 to a rocket ship blast-off
I just feel so tired if I feed him more than once a day and feed DD as well. So, his feeds are the ones that are sacrificed, not hers.
Thing is, he is so attached to BFing that I can guarantee absolute cooperation if I threaten to take Babu away from him - I don't use threats or rewards in parenting my kids, but when the chips are down and he's really throwing his weight around I tell him I will have to stop feeding him. And I probably would follow through, too, because at those moments I just don't want to have his rudeness around me!
There was no answer in that, just commiserations
I haven't noticed anything with DS' poo before. I got him to use the toilet for poo as soon as I could, though - told him that he was doing 'big kid poo' and I didn't want to have to deal with it anymore, that's what the toilet was for. Bit 'arsh, but it was true!
DS ramped up his feeds in NZ when things got a bit tense in the family, but didn't notice a difference in his poo (I usually do a quick reccy in the bowl, just to gauge where he's at). Maybe it's something else she's eating? Dairy?
I actually think that the pooh is helpful - at least you don't have to deal with a kid struggling to get it out!
My DS is limited to morning and night - and gets cut short if there is too much wriggling or too big toothmarks! Splitting the BF from going to sleep helps a lot - that way you aren't BF-ing a grumpy overtired critter, and the sleep isn't dependent on you.
Can you try and feed at wake up rather than sleep times - that way she will be wanting to go off and do something rather than feed for eons?
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