Anyone else still nursing another child?

Laura - posted on 06/09/2010

We are down to barely one feed a night. I can't imagine I have any milk left in there. Mikey does the cutest excited laugh when he sees his milk bottle. I guess the next step is off the bottle and onto the cup before the baby gets here and I'm giving her a bottle. If it's not one thing it's another. ;-) Thank you all for posting I was really hoping to find others going through the same thing.

Jodie - posted on 06/09/2010

I was until fairly recently my son is 13 months and when he turned 1 I gave him cows milk in a cup, first swapping the bedtime feed then a couple of weeks later I did it for the morning feed as well (he was only having 2 breastfeeds a day). I thought it would be difficult and he'd miss it but he was fine. Now he gets really excited when he sees his cup. I wanted to have a break before the next baby and I didn't want him to remember that he used to do that and be jealous.

Sarah - posted on 06/05/2010

I am still brestfeeding my 14month old son, and am 20weeks pregnant with my second baby. We have just started weaning him onto cows milk at his night feed, and he is having his morning breaftfeed still. My child health nurse assures me that the two feeds are enough per day as he is getting other dairy such as cheese and yoghurt. Since becoming pregnant I have some pain feeding when he latches on, but my main reasons for weaning are so that I can have a break myself, and so my son won' t feel like he is missing it when baby no.2 comes along. I thought I wouldn't miss it, but i am already missing the closeness and the cuddles, but i will persist because I know that I don't want to tandem feed.

Good luck :)

Rosanne - posted on 05/29/2010

I am!! My daughter will be 2 next month and like you I've cut her down to a few times a day, at this point it's first thing in the morning then sometimes before bed. Before I got pregnant she was what we liked to refer to as a drive-by nurser, she'd get up in my lap, nurse for all of 30 seconds and be gone again. Now I insist that if she's going to nurse it has to be a 'good' nursing.

I had horrible nipple pain throughout most of my first trimester, so much so that I'm sure I had an infection as well, unfortunately I live in an isolated area and was unable to get any help for it, my doctor, while supportive, didn't know how to go about treating it, eventually it passed and I was left with what I considered to be a normal amount of discomfort. Thankfully that's lessened too.

I completely understand the mixed emotions about it. I never had any intention of weaning her, I wanted her to wean in her own time, I felt guilty every time I said no and now that she doesn't ask anymore I feel sad that it's coming to an end. On the other hand sometimes I feel very restless when she's nursing and I feel like a few months breastfeeding free would be wonderful.

In the end I'll probably leave it up to her, I don't feel tired from it which I thought I would, and I don't think it's affecting my pregnancy in anyway. But I completely understand where you're coming from and what a hard thing it is to decide.