I am struggling with starting to wean...

Lovingthislife · July 2012

I know that I want to before we start school back in August, but I am having a hard time starting. I really like that time with him. He doesn't eat as much as he used to, so I think that if I let him do it naturally it would happen... It just may be Christmas before we were completely done. Anyone else dreading this process?

pregarella · July 2012

I was dreading more so the transition as we had such a good routine down and I was worried about that change and also about her calorie intact from food. We are keeping the morning and night nursing for now, but got rid of the other two middle of the day ones. So far she hasn't missed it at all.....I offer her sippy cups with milk as an alternate and she refuses them.

MrsEmilyS · July 2012

I was dreading it too but I bit the bullet and dropped the 2 middle of the day feedings. She drinks a whole sippy of breast milk mixed with soy milk each time and doesn't seem to miss it. I'm hoping to eventually get her to only drink soy once we have used up more breast milk in the freezer.

I'm not sure when I will drop the morning and night feedings.

march2008 · July 2012

I'm just planning to let her self-wean when she's ready, so hopefully it'll happen very gradually and will be easy on the both of us.

Golf424 · July 2012

Yup me too! I am down to a morning and a night session only. Daytime is almond milk. I'm thinking at 18 months I'll try to be done. Maybe... Thinking of our last time together makes me very sad. I think we both have to be ready for me to feel good about it.

Hallil · July 2012

march2008:
I'm just planning to let her self-wean when she's ready, so hopefully it'll happen very gradually and will be easy on the both of us.

This is pretty much us exactly!

Baby4OT · July 2012

I think it would be completely attainable to be done with daytime feedings when school starts, but still keeping morning and night feedings for as long as you both want after that. You'll still have that special time together. Both of my oldest kids were done BFing during the day by about 15 months, but still BF morning and night until 18m for DD1 and 21m for DD2. DD1 weaned herself at that point. DD2 would have kept nursing but I was already 3 months pg with DD3 by then and wanted to stop BFing for a few months before DD3 was born. Anyway, long story short, if you don't want to completely wean yet, you don't have to!

gymnst1013 · July 2012

I'm not dreading it because I'm not forcing it. I'm letting him wean when he is ready (although I'm quite sure I'll be very sad when he does decide he's done). Any particular reason you feel the need to wean by August? Can you continue to BF even if just mornings and evenings or just evenings or something like that?

JuneBug0611 · July 2012

I'm struggling with it too. I work outside the home, and am trying to stop pumping at work and just nurse morning and night, in the hopes of jump-starting AF (it's so weird that I haven't had a period in almost 2 years now!).

I've started cutting back on the pumping at work, though I'm still at 2x per day. But now LO isn't as interested in nursing as she used to be. She'll still nurse a little at night when I first get home (but pushes away a lot sooner than before), and she still wants to nurse at night (we bedshare), and occasionally she'll nurse a little bit (again, not very long) when she first wakes up in the morning, but she's not interested during the day when I'm home on weekends. That's probably because my daytime supply is decreasing now that I'm pumping less. But it makes me sad. I guess it shouldn't. This is the goal -- to get down to morning and evening nursing. I just didn't realize how sad it would make me when she started showing signs of not needing or wanting to nurse anymore.

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