yes, he is still nursing

[flea]

Dillo is two and 4.5 months now - almost exactly the age I weaned Casper. I've been ready to be done with nursing for at least 6 months now, but he is so not ready. He LOVES nursing. He doesn't ask for it a lot during the day, and if he does he generally accepts the explanation that we nurse at bedtime. (If he does nap during the day, I do usually nurse him down for that.) But he expects to nurse at bedtime, and if he wakes during the night (he increasingly doesn't), and at wake-up. (We have a terrible thing going on right now where he sleeps through until 4:30 or 5, then nurses for as long as I'll let him, then is awake for an hour. If I can wait out the hour he'll go back to sleep for an hour or two; occasionally we get up for the day. The timing is sucky for work schedules, though - this morning he was up from 5-6, then fell asleep, so I had to wake him at 7 and he was a disaster to get ready.)

After I weaned Casper she spent the next six months unable to fall asleep except with her finger in my belly button. Dillo's apparent ready replacement for nursing is going to be putting a hand on my breast and going to sleep that way - sometimes when I make him stop nursing he'll ask for that. I am SO NOT going to have him falling asleep with a hand on my breast for the next six months.

I'm not sure how I'm going to manage this, but it needs to end soon. He's just not going to like it.

Comments

[serrana.livejournal.com]

Well, I finally managed it with the baby by going out of town for a week, but if that's not in the cards, I think you have to hand him over to Mr. Flea.

Night-weaning meant two or three months of hard work on C's part, with both kids.

[loligo.livejournal.com]

We are in the same position. Last night Squeaky climbed into bed with us around 3:00, as he often does. He nursed and fell asleep, then thrashed around so much he ended up sleeping on my head. So I went to his room to sleep (which I almost never do), and at 5:00 AM he got out of *my* bed and came and found me in his bed, and asked to nurse some more! I have no idea how he knew where I was.

[minim_calibre]

Often I find myself wishing I could go away for a week and come back to a weaned child. My sympathies.

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

I'd been wondering if she was still nursing. I've made a few half hearted attempts at encouraging weaning but she is so attached. Moreso than Frisco, I think.

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

I hope when the time comes you will share what worked because I could sure use any tips you might have.

[minim_calibre]

Oh, man, denying nurse-nurse is the surest way to a tantrum in this household. And I don't want it to be a bad breakup with the booby, you know?

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do. And it's not exactly a bad relationship - although pretty difficult at times - but sometimes I'm just ready for it to be over. Still, like you said, I want to be an okay thing, so until I figure that out, here we are.