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Posted by natalienj (My Page) on Tue, Jan 8, 02 at 8:33
| My DD is only 6.5 mo. old so I'm not looking to wean yet. But it occurred to me at 3 AM this morning as she was nursing for about the 10th time overnight, that if she continues co-sleeping and eating whenever she wants, why would she ever wean herself? I figured that I'd let her decide but I don't think I'm prepared to be doing gymnastics in bed in 2 years flipping from side to side so that she can nurse evenly.
How'd it work for you? |
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| I had to wean my DD when she was 5 1/2 months because I had some medical problems and had to take some medication. I weaned her by having a bottle with plain water next to me in bed. Whenever she woke up to nurse, I gave her some water. Eventually, she stopped waking to nurse as water is not very exciting in the middle of the night. My SIL on the other hand, has trouble weaning her 15 1/2 month DD. Her DD wakes up at midnight just to nurse. My SIL wants to stop, but as long as she keeps on giving in to her DD, it won't happen. |
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Well, let's see at 6.5mo the reason she's nursing 10 times at night is it's about growth spurt time again.
My youngest has now been "breastless" for about 3 weeks, and will be 20mos on the 18th.
And you've also probably started the bad habit I did when my guy was about that age and basically co slept...Every little whimper, noise, stir, and I'd instinctly shove a nipple in his mouth...and off we'd go back to sleep..about 2 months later, I realized, that he was asleep, and it was a normal sleep pattern for him. And boy when he moved into his own room, did it take quite some time to get him to learn to not "expect" said nipple with every stir. And lots of very little sleep for momma. It took me about 3 months to get him to sleep through the whole night without "numnums".(He'd wake, and I would rock him, or pat him back to sleep.) Around 15 months, I got him down to 3-4 nursings in 24 hours...mostly only from 5 am -7 am, and then usually around 3-4pm for a nap. The very last "nursing" was his early morning one. That took about 2 months to get rid of....Like I said above, he's now been "breastless" for about 3 weeks...and all is fine, he's even sleeping until about 7 on his own, which is something he never did when he came to our bed... |
RE: Weaning/Co-Sleeping
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| I quit nursing completely right before my daughter turned one. A couple months before that I started giving bottles only during the day and I would co-sleep with her and nurse to put her back to sleep at night. When I felt ready to be done with nursing altogther I used the pacifier when she'd wake up I'd give her the nuk and she'd cry for a few minutes but eventually she'd fall back asleep. It took about 3 days for her to not try to nurse and it was very hard emotionally for me. I felt like I was a bad mom because I didn't want to nurse her anymore but after about a week it seemed like she never even remembered nursing and it all worked out. |
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