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| I need my body back!!!!!! |
| Hey ladies. I haven't posted in a while but I guess if anyone understands why, you do. Well, I would love some advice on how to wean my daughter of the breast. She just turned one but it seems as if she's feeding as much as she did when she was 6 months old. She wakes up at night and won't go back to sleep until she has the breast in her mouth. She's eats the foods we eat but even after eating it's seems she has to have the breast for dessert or something. lol. Please help me because as much as i love our closeness that comes with breastfeeding it does get tiring after a while. I feel that we have bonded and she doesn't need the breast anymore. It's seems like everytime my husband comes home he sees baby at my breast. I need some help with weaning her. desperately. Help!!!!!! |
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Your breast is her parcifier, it is not going to be easy, it is not the milk but the confort. You have to change form of confort!
Vero |
| posted by Vero on 10/26/2007 |
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| Well i'll try. Maybe i'll let her have more daddy time. :) Thanks Vera. |
| posted by Trish on 10/27/2007 |
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| Do you want to continue to breastfeed at all? The reason I ask is if you do not, maybe you can try to bottlefeed her with cow's milk or the Enfamil Next Step formula. I know a lot of mom's do not want their kids to have a bottle at the age of 1... but maybe you could do that for a short time and also use the soft-top sippy cups (they feel like a nipple). I agree with Vera too... you just have to find another way for her to have the comfort. |
| posted by Kimberly on 10/27/2007 |
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| I do believe that a lot of that is probably due to routine and comfort. I would try to break her habit by choosing a bottle or sippy and at those desired times and hold her close, snuggle where she can hear your heartbeat and feel your warmth. Maybe even pump so that she has that milk that she is used to. Then make a gradual change. Get rid of the session that you feel is the least necissary and keep the "favorite" (like bedtime) for the last to be dropped. And it will be hard but a little at a time will not be tramatic and just follow her cues. Good luck! |
| posted by kara on 10/29/2007 |
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| I was just there, Kade and I lasted until 15 mos, haha I say that to relieve any laughs out there. It was long enough. I took a four day excursion and daddy learned to calm down his son in longer spurts. I mean afterall Daddy had been calming him down before without nursing him. I learned how to almost sleep through the night and prepared myself for coming home to a baby who only saw me as breastmilk. I was afraid he'd fall and I wouldn't be able to calm him like I did before. But turns out that holding him in my arms and whispering in his ears was like the milk, it took a couple days, but with tight sports bras at night to keep him away from breastfeeding- we did it!!! Good job deciding to nurse!!!! Ir's hard, and there doesn't seem to be any advice in the books. Oh, and I used my pump to relieve the engorgement which seemed to last forever but once the milk was down it made it easier. Good luck, hey your babys gonna cry and you will too, but it you'll know when it time and why. Be strong, your baby's gotta grow up. Good luck!!! |
| posted by Carley on 10/30/2007 |
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| Thanks so much everyone!! I definitely feel better cause i felt alone in this. It's just so hard to look at that little face and say no but i'll have to try the alternatives. thanks again ladies. |
| posted by Trish on 10/30/2007 |
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