Breastfeeding: Who self weaned?

edited April 2013 in Breastfeeding
Who le..... 2:06am ... JUST as I started making this post my son woke up crying. Its so hard to type one handed as my son likes to kick the laptop off my lap. lol.

Anywho as I was typing.. Who let their child self wean? How old were they? My son is 17 months old and still nurses on demand. I work so about 4-5 times a day for 5-15 minutes, So much has changed since Oct ( moving 1051 miles from home, daddy coming back from a year long deployment, mommy working for the first time of his life, several babysitters as some didn't work out) I'm afraid if I make him stop he will be more.. um... traumatized is what comes to mind. He misses his family soo much back home! He is now clingy while at home. I can't pee w/o him. Even if I am nursing him and my husband goes outside Mason will usually cry a little. :( But if we are at a playgroup he has no problem running around playing. But he'll sometimes cry if I drop him off at the sitters.

Comments

  • Levi stopped nursing about 2 months ago he Is 10 months now. I'm glad I stopped when I did. I think if I world have waited any longer he would have come too attached. Does mason stop crying on his own when you walk away? He'll get his independence
  • Yeah he stops evetually after getting mad. Usually throws a toy in frustration.
  • All three of my daughters have started self weaning around 14 months or so.
  • I'm letting my daughter self wean too..she's still nursing on demand here at soon to be 19 months.
  • I didn't self wean, but I stopped bf at 16m. She was starting to not be interested any more and only nursing like your son was.
  • Still nursing and now 18 1/2 months. Same schedule.
    *bump*
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