feedback for "Parental Advisory: Will Weaning Hurt?"

  1. If you wait til your kid is 2, like I am doing, and give yourself a whole year to work it out, it should be good. By then, you will probably be very tired of BFing and happy to see it phase out, you will know you have done something awesome for your kid, and giving yourself lots of time to work it through will make it easy on both of you. Of course, this is not for everyone and if you want another kid sooner, that makes it harder, I guess. Good luck!

    posted by : GP on 7/8/2009 at 9:04 AM Flag For Abuse

  2. I'm in the same situation as GP. My daughter is almost 2 and throughout the year she has gradually been cutting back. Now she's just about weaned and it's worked out very well. I am at the point now where I'm so tired of nursing and am really interested in reclaiming my boobs, wearing a regular bra, etc.

    posted by : MomofBeans on 7/8/2009 at 11:14 AM Flag For Abuse

  3. Every kid is different. I weaned my son at 12 months and it was extremely easy. I must have not been making very much milk by that time, because I experienced no pain. (We weaned over a one month period.) My son did not miss nursing, and I have to admit neither did I. We still do so much cuddling and playing that I didn't feel that anything was being taken away from either of us.
    I admit this may not be the case for everyone, but weaning at 12 months does not necessarily have to mean a lot of physical and emotional pain. 

    posted by : Laure68 on 7/8/2009 at 12:37 PM Flag For Abuse

  4. I didn't feel any physical pain either when weaning my 19 month old. At that point, she was only nursing at night, before bed, and we phased out that nursing time over a month or so -- I took the "don't offer, don't refuse" approach.

    I was pregnant, too, so perhaps that facilitated my milk "drying up" and my daughter losing interest. But I do think weaning gradually helped with avoiding a lot of physical or emotional discomfort.

    posted by : kd on 7/8/2009 at 1:09 PM Flag For Abuse

  5. With all 6 of kids, I breastfed up until 6 mos. Then I pumped (bottle) until 12 mos. After that, they had cow's milk.

    I didn't feel pain. And I no one cried.

    It's up to every mom and kid.

    I can't imagine going past a year and they are still nursing. They tend to be more independent by then, trying to feed themselves and what not.

    posted by : Zicea Becks on 7/8/2009 at 3:24 PM Flag For Abuse

  6. I got SO depressed when I was weaning! The hormone swings were horrible. I tried to wean gradually and after a few months of crying every time I breastfed, I had to give up and stop entirely. This was around 10 months. So I think it really is different for everyone...

    posted by : depressed bfer on 7/8/2009 at 6:09 PM Flag For Abuse

  7. One day my daughter laughed at me when I tried to feed her and I knew it was over. That was after 14 months. I felt no pain at all. I still miss it though.

    posted by : kiwi mum on 7/8/2009 at 10:05 PM Flag For Abuse

  8. My son decided he was done nursing at six months. Wouldn't latch on, wouldn't even snuggle down with me, D-O-N-E. I cried and cried and kept offering it to him. For me, pumping was very painful and not very successful, so I just kept trying to get him to latch. It was harder emotionally for me, because I wasn't ready to stop. My boobs sure hurt for the first couple of days, and I leaked everytime he cried, but it wasn't super horrible. Popping some tylenol really helped. My issue was that I leaked for over a week. Then of course, after two weeks of being dried up, my son crawled over and latched on. That made me sadder than weaning did. My advice is to make sure you're both ready to wean. I have a feeling if I had been ready, it would have been a lot easier for me.

    posted by : coolteamblt on 7/9/2009 at 2:07 PM Flag For Abuse

  9. For mothers who breast feed, the transition to other means of nourishment raises several issues. Perhaps the most salient one is when to begin weaning and how. You can learn more in this recent post:  http://www.justaskbaby.com/blogs/professor-elkind/weaning

    posted by : Just Ask Baby on 7/13/2009 at 4:30 PM Flag For Abuse


   
 
 
 
 
   


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