I am messed up in the womanly department. Always have been. Which is why it took so long for me to get pregnant. Anyway, I've been having an issue and in order to fix it I need to take some medication which I can't take while nursing. So my dilemma is to keep nursing and worry about my problem later (which is kind of tough, because I may die if it continues much longer haha) or ween Owen. My fight with myself is that I enjoy nursing and I really don't think that Owen is ready to stop nursing either. He still gets a lot of his nutrition from it...he doesn't eat a ton of solid food. Also, I really don't know how to ween him. I've tried to start giving him milk in the day time but he gags. It's kind of funny actually. Plus he's on the light side already so I don't want to ween him and have him starve. In a way it would be nice to stop breastfeeding, but in all reality I really do enjoy it. HELP! Moms out there, How did you ween your child? Was it as difficult as I'm imagining it will be or am I being a big baby? I'm open to any good advice. PLUS...how can I say "No" to this cute face:
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Love, ME
6 comments:
You've updated so much since you set this up, I love it! Owen is so cute. I feel for you with the weening. Mason just decided he was done and loved his bottles, but I'm gonna have a hard time with this one. I recommned DON'T DIE. Haha. Good luck, wish I had better advice.
HA! Kelly. You are so funny. No, it wasn't the lady you recommended. It was some dude in Draper. The thing is he was totally not helping/listening to me. I am still totally planning on taking a trip up to Logan at some point to go see the lady you recommended.
I love your blog too! I love that you tell it like it is, so thank you! We are two peas in a pod.
Good luck with the breastfeeding ordeal! I couldn't say NO to that face either!
Oh, little Owen is so cute! We haven't had internet so I haven't been able to look at blogs for awhile. I'm sad we missed his birthday party :(
Natalie just weened herself too, but I remember Leah would do a mix at first and that worked with her kids. I think she would just gradually increase it everyday until it was not longer breast milk.
I agree with the don't die part, but if it really isn't life-threatening and you do enjoy it I would just keep breastfeeding. Especially since Owen was a preemie, but at the same time it will eventually have to stop so you are probably just prolonging the inevitable.
Aaaaaah. It's because I am the most fickle person alive and after I posted the IDEAS post I took it down. I am weird.
Owen such a cutie!! So I'm glad that you had a kid first so that you can figure all of this stuff out for me and then I can ask you in a year or two! :) Sorry I'm no help. If you keep breastfeeding for a couple years, I might have an answer for you then. ;)
Yes, don't die! ;) Kaylee LOVED whole milk and by the time she turned 1 she was only nursing 1-2 times a day and for like 5 seconds so it wasn't a big deal giving it up. My recommendations--keep giving him milk everyday so he gets use to the taste and have him try it both cold and warm. Maybe he'd like it one way over the other? And push more solid foods. Maybe he'd like those Ensure drinks...but for kids? IDK...good luck girlie.
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