I haven't posted in here in a while but I thought this would be a good place to come for some weaning advice and support.
DD is nearly two and a half and still feeds frequently through the day, when I'm not at work, and between one (on an awesome night) but up to four or five on a not so awesome night. She feeds to sleep day and night when I am home.
I have loved BFing I fed my now five year old son until he was nearly three only stopping because I fell pregnant with DD and had HG so could hardly make enough milk, for a start, was made feel even sicker when touched and I didn't want to risk the medications I had to take to not be completely dehydrated and starved getting through to him. So apart from the few months break while pregnant and very sick it has been pretty much constant BFing for nearly six years? Anyway I'm feeling pretty exhausted and really touched out. I'm pretty sure it's time to stop now mostly for my own sanity, but I also feel horribly sad and guilty all at once
DD LOVES her milk. She will randomly come to me and say "I love milk it's lovely it's my favourite." Even when she doesn't ask for some.
If I ask her to wait a few minutes before having milk more often than not she absolutely cracks it! Full on melt down yelling crying etc Sometimes you can distract her, which is what I did with DS3 and managed to get him down to a morning feed and a night feed, but she just isn't as easy to distract when she wants milk she wants it and it's melt down city or aggressive groping and pulling of clothes trying to get it herself.
So I would love to hear any advice from anyone to try and make it as easy on both of us as possible. I already feel awful and selfish about stopping when she doesn't seem ready, but I can feel my sanity slipping. I would be really happy with two or three feeds a day but I'm getting the feeling it's all or nothing for DD.
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