Question about weaning and pregnancy

Re: Question about weaning and pregnancy

• LillyAm member

  July 2014

  Thank you for your response!  That makes a lot of sense, and your comment about supply really made me think.....  Even though he is wanting it more, he does ask for water after or even during nursing.  So maybe that is part of it, I didn't consider that before. Thank you.
  

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• mysticl member

  July 2014

  I weaned at about 21 months due to being pregnant too.  However, by that point we were down to two nursing sessions a day, nap time and bedtime, and each one was less than 5 minutes.  So it was pretty easy to just not nurse one day.  He did want his pacifier (that he had barely used since he was 5 months old) pretty much all the time for about 2 days.  Up to that point if he didn't nurse to sleep I would hold him till he fell asleep so we would just go straight into the holding portion of the routine.  It's been about 2 months and now he goes into his crib with a couple of books and falls asleep "reading" to his Jake doll…….usually, sometimes he still needs snuggles.  

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• camedowncrushing member

  July 2014

  I weaned at 21 months due to being pregnant.  We had just established a schedule of four times a day when I found out I was pregnant.  I wanted to continue to nurse her as long as I could because she wasn't ready to stop, but between nipple pain and constant vomiting I was ready to give up.  It was hard.  I eliminated the easiest feeding (bedtime) first, and that went without a problem.  Then I eliminated morning which I knew was going to be really hard because that was her favorite.  I needed to let that one go next though because I was sickest in the morning.  It was terrible.  She cried and asked for milk for days.  Then I decided to just tell her that my milk was going away because she was getting to be a big girl, and didn't need it anymore.  I gave her about a week's notice...continuing to let her nurse before and after nap...and then one morning I just said "mommy's milk is all gone!  You are a big girl!"  I tried to change it into something good...like she was such a big girl that she didn't need my milk anymore.  It went over really well. She would ask for milk, but then tell herself that there wasn't any.  "Mommy's boobies just boobies now!"  Ha ha ha.  I will say there was a transition period where she was still in love with my boobs, and I let her lay on them as much as she wanted.  In the morning instead of nursing she would snuggle up on me and lay her head on my chest.  This lasted a few months.  Even now if I am nursing DD2 sometimes she will ask to snuggle up on the other side.  She just rests her head there.  She is an all or nothing kid...so drawing out the dropping of feedings was confusing to her.  Once we were done it was fine!  Good luck! 
  

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