XP from 2 under 2 - weaning??

cmenasco · April 2012

I posted on a couple other boards, but thought you guys might have some ideas too??? Just trying to get as many as I can! Thank you!!!

LO is 16 months, breast feeding at bedtime (1-2 at night) and then in the AM. On weekend he will sometimes nurse before his nap or for comfort. At day care he was getting 1 bottle at nap time, but we just weaned from that, and he drinks great from a sippy cup.

I'm not really interested in tandem nursing, so am thinking about when/how to wean DS. I would like him to be weaned at least 2 months before LO comes along (he will be 22 months when LO is born). I can probably distract him enough in the AM and for the comfort nursing, but I'm concerned about the bedtime and naps! He will nurse to sleep still at night.

I have heard that you milk changes when you are around 20 weeks pregnant and he might not like it? Do I wait until then? Give it a few more months and see if he self weans? Or start cutting out the sessions now and hope that in the next 3-4 months we are weaned!?!? I just want to do what will equal the lest crying and stress!!

Any Suggestions???

pinkzebraprint · April 2012

My son will be 2 in 2 weeks. He didn't bf yesterday for his nap, didn't bf yesterday before bed, didn't bf this morning and didn't bf today for his afternoon nap. I am almost 24w pregnant and it's been within the past 2w to 1 month that he has dramatically shortened his nursing sessions and started to skip some entirely. I can't speak for everyone, obviously, but for us he chose to self-wean. I even asked him this afternoon "do you want boob?" and he straight-up said "nnnnnno."

I don't know if he didn't like the change in the milk, or if I was just gradually making less, or if I was making less because he chose to nurse less. He definitely dropped the nap-time nursing before the bedtime. The bedtime he dropped before the morning one. And now, it seems, he has dropped the morning one. Today is the first day he hasn't wanted to nurse at all - prior to today, it would be a little random and hit-or-miss. Some days he would nurse in the morning and before bed, some days he would nurse only in the morning, some days he would nurse am, nap and before bed but for only 15 - 30 seconds.

If you are wanting to help your lo wean, I think distraction really helps. Some of the times when DS didn't want to nurse - although it was around his usual time - seemed to be when we were out, or driving, or he was busy with a new toy, etc.

PM me anytime if you have any questions!

sometimesalwayschaotic · April 2012

I found that the farther I got into pregnancy, the less interested DD became. She self weaned about 2 months before the baby was here. She really lost interest when I hit 3rd trimester. Before that, I was sure we'd be tandem nursing. I stopped offering and would only nurse when she would ask. She stopped wanting to nurse. She was never big into comfort nursing though.

pinkzebraprint · April 2012

hheyderh:
I found that the farther I got into pregnancy, the less interested DD became. She self weaned about 2 months before the baby was here. She really lost interest when I hit 3rd trimester. Before that, I was sure we'd be tandem nursing. I stopped offering and would only nurse when she would ask. She stopped wanting to nurse. She was never big into comfort nursing though.

see, for us DS was a BIG comfort nurser. In fact, towards the end here I really think that's all it was. I don't even think I was producing much/if anything. He really started to cuddle more and more instead of asking to nurse

cmenasco · April 2012

pinkzebraprint:
hheyderh:
I found that the farther I got into pregnancy, the less interested DD became. She self weaned about 2 months before the baby was here. She really lost interest when I hit 3rd trimester. Before that, I was sure we'd be tandem nursing. I stopped offering and would only nurse when she would ask. She stopped wanting to nurse. She was never big into comfort nursing though.
see, for us DS was a BIG comfort nurser. In fact, towards the end here I really think that's all it was. I don't even think I was producing much/if anything. He really started to cuddle more and more instead of asking to nurse

I hope this is us!!! He LOVES to comfort nurse!! And I would love for him to do it on his own schedule, I just don't want to nurse two!

pixieprincss · April 2012

I would wait it out, personally. While I do hope to tandem nurse (I see it as a great strategy for parenting 2u2) and helping DS cope), I don't know that it will happen because DS is clearly self-weaning as the PG progresses. I talked to my MW about this at our last visit and both she and her MW student who are moms of 5 and 7 kids, respectively, said that every one of their kids self-weaned gradually during PG. The stats on tandem nursing are very low and while I think some of it is cultural choice, some is personal choice, I think that it also is just something that naturally happens to many woman as the milk turns back into colostrum.

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