My second will be 2 in just a few days and he is still nursing. I nursed #1 until 2 months before I had #2. He was quite a bit younger, so I felt like I really needed too. I'm heartbroken as #2 is REALLY attached to boo-boo and I'm really not ready to be done, but my body is D-O-N-E. It hurts so bad I just want to scream sometimes. He nurses in the morning, several times a day, to sleep and several times at night. That's just too much for me right now. I tried gently telling him today, not right now, boo-boo hurts and it was the freak-out of the century. O-M-G. I mean if he just wanted to nurse to sleep or in the morning I could probably handle that, but ugh. After his birthday, I think I'm going to work on getting him in his own bed at night, this might help the night weaning. Any suggestions on how to gently get him away from the breast. I was really hoping he'd self-wean, but it isn't looking good and I HATE the thought of weaning him ,but I feel like I need to. Any advice appreciated, but I think I just needed to vent more than anything.
Re: Anyone still breastfeeding the older sibling
Anyway I think is time for u to take a brake because I'm sure u r going to breastfeed the next baby... so good luck n to me ur like a super mom! Lol
During the day maybe try and go out of the house (play dates, library, kid friendly restaurant etc.) and offer him milk or whatever else in a cup and hopefully he will be distracted enough by not being at home that he will just go along with it?
The first night my son cried for 20 mins before falling asleep and refused the bottle. He woke up 2 hours later but just for a minute. Then again 2 hours later but again for a minute, didn't take the bottle. At 6 he woke up, drank a bottle and fell back asleep until 8! Overall pretty successful. He woke up less and less each night.
With the premature end to our weaning, it was a total nightmare. I hadn't been pumping at night so my milk supply is super low. My son won't take a bottle willingly from my so he just wants to nurse the entire night. He slept and nursed for 2-3 hours last night before he finally detached so I could sleep. If I pulled away he screamed. My nipples are so sore and tender. I need to survive tonight then my husband will take over again.
I'm not looking forward to weaning my little girl, she's so not ready but my milk production is dropping already, and I am so touched-out.
I was really wanting to let her self wean but I'm very worried about tandem nursing, I had a hard enough time maintaining a supply for one