Share your stories about pregnancy and weaning

lkstor

How many experienced LO self-weaning?

Did you opt to do anything to encourage or hasten weaning?

I'm newly pregnant with #2 (fingers crossed this is a sticky baby!) and really uncertain about what to do with DS.  He LOVES nursing.  But I don't think I want to tandem nurse.  He'll be 28 months in October with this baby's due date.

webMistress0609

I don't have any advice since I haven't experienced this, but just wanted to say congrats & good to see you!

lkstor

Thanks ladies!!!

kmoses10

I am 16 weeks and still nursing, but my situation is a little different because DD is only 6 months old. I plan on tandum nursing if I can keep my supply up. But I have read if you are nursing and pregnant it is best to wean 2 months before the baby is due to ease the transition and so that baby 1 doesn't associate the weaning with baby 2,

iris427

I got pregnant right around my daughter's 2nd birthday and she was still nursing quite a bit.  I do not want to tandem nurse and I didn't think she was going to self-wean in time.  So I've been working on weaning her slowly and she is mostly weaned now.  She still asks every day but isn't really nursing anymore.  She is still interested in my breasts but she doesn't get milk and the rare time that I let her nurse a little, she breaks off after 30 seconds or so.

To encourage weaning, I stopped offering and I started avoiding situations where she usually nursed.  For example, I would bring her to bed every morning and she would nurse there, so I stopped bringing her to my bed when she woke up and that eliminated the morning nursing session.  When she wanted to nurse, I would try to offer her a snack or a cup or distract her with something fun to do.  I also started cutting it short when she would nurse and telling her when she asked that it wasn't time to nurse.   She has fussed some but no more than she fusses if I tell her she can't have a cookie right now.  

GL 

rainlily

Congrats!  I hope you have a H&H 9 months!  I am about a week and a half ahead of you, so no advice here.  DD is 18 months old and still nurses 4 times a day.  I am not sure what will happen, but I'll just roll with it! 

ncbelle

I was convinced kiddo would keep on trucking with nursing because he was very attached.  But I think a combination of his age and my milk changing around the halfway point of pregnancy (or my supply crashing) pushed him to wean right before he turned 2.

I wrote about it here if you want to read the details: https://www.becomingmamas.com/a-weaning-story/

Alirebco

Congrats! 

I found out I was pregnant when DS was 2 years, 8 months old and at that point he was down to just one nursing session a day - in the morning.  I probably would have let him wean on his own, but I was so sick with nausea that I couldn't stand to have him all over me in the morning.  He would lay on top of me to nurse and I couldn't take it.  Plus my nipples were really sore and while I know they don't stay sore, I couldn't deal with it.  

So my husband would take him right downstairs in the morning to eat and he didn't care.  There were a few times he would try to nurse and I would tell him no and he wouldn't get upset.  Then I told him that there was no milk left.  

I do know lots of people who have nursed throughout pregnancy.  Some have pushed to wean or have nursing sessions lowered and some kids wean on their own since the milk does change and they don't like it.  Good luck with whatever you choose!

mrs. mccusker

DD was about 3 months shy of 2 when I found out I was pregnant.  She kept right on nursing until I was about 16 weeks and I was getting to the point of just being done so I started limiting where we could nurse.  As it turned out it was in her bed only so before nap, bed, once overnight and in the morning.  When she started to drop her nap that session eliminated itself and some nights she would go down without nursing because I was working late.  She eliminated the overnight session on her own.  The morning session was the hardest and I just used as distraction technique.  She would wake up and ask to nurse and I would ask her if she was a yogurt (she LOVES yogurt).  She was excited enough by the idea of yogurt that it never raised an issue.  Her last nursing session was almost 3 weeks ago and we really haven't looked back since.