So I am going to share one of the joys I face being a mom! I sit here sore, why you might ask, well my daughter has decided she is on a nursing strike and after 5 days of almost dropping it my girls are very full and sore. I had plans to wean her slowly at about a year, well she had different plans and wouldn't take anything else so as I tried each and every day with some water or milk in a cup she declared that she was having nothing to do with my plan. So I still nursed, more for my sake then hers. I was not looking at trying cold turkey. I was planning the slow method like I did with my son, drop one feed a week and after a month it could be done.
So I sat down on Sunday night in the chair in her room as I have done for the past year to nurse her and then put her in her crib. Well she bit me! I remember bitting from my son, he had teeth at 5 months and a full mouth by 10 months so when he bit it hurt. I screamed, she cried and then just wanted into her crib so I put her there. She woke up in the early morning and wanted to nurse so I did. Then she wanted nothing to do with me again other than a quick sip in the late afternoon. That evening I sat down not sure what to expect and she said no again... I was stunned! She has nursed once a day for the past 5 days and even that has not been a real feed.
At first I thought teeth as she is getting her first molars, but now I am not sure. I am so glad that she started getting her teeth so much later than her brother! I was shocked she started with no nursing before bed, I thought that would for sure be the last one she dropped. She has started drinking a little milk, not much but a little bit so I guess that is a positive.
But I think the hardest thing for me is that I am not sure how I feel. I have been looking for a while for something that would allow me a little time away from her, she has refused everything but the boob for the past year so I could never go very far or even sleep through the night. I guess I just didn't plan it would happen like this, but does anything go as we plan? I am sad, I knew I would be when the time came, I was with my son too. I know this is the last time so I think I was in less of a rush to have it stop completely.... I guess she has different plans.
So keep my girls in your thoughts, and if you have any tips or advice please share, I think in another day or so I am going to be desperate!!!
Lindsay =)
