weaning a wiener
Friday, November 2, 2007
Ok, so he isn't really a wiener, but I've been thinking about weaning him. Ok, so I don't mind the nursing for nap time and the part in our bedtime routine, but I want to get rid of at least the last 2 am feeding. My plan right now is to tough it out and just try to rock him and offer him water for a few days, which I'm sure will be horrific. So the question to you ladies(sorry guys, no boobs, you just don't understand) is, any suggestions to make it less traumatic? What about weaning in general? How do you make that less traumatic? I don't think I can last long enough to use self-led weaning. I'm ready I think, I swear in my mind every time he latches on, half the time it is a bad latch, and I can't figure out how to get him right. We'll fix the latch and it'll go bad again a few days later. Yeah, I need suggestions. I can't really get to a LLL meeting because the closest one is 1.5 hrs away by train, and right in the middle of nap time.
Ok, so here are some fun pictures....we've discovered fort building. We had a blast! We're also trying to get some good pictures in because we are going to enter him in the Gap Japan modeling contest. I know...start calling me a stage mom now. Oy! But seriously, with his dimples, killer smile and great personality, why wouldn't everyone love him? Let's get some cash for his college fund from his good looks.
He even did a self portrait, ok well I pushed the button for him.
REMEMBER....POST YOUR WEANING SUGGESTIONS
posted by soybeanlover @ 11:20 AM
2 Comments:
Best suggestion I have for nighttime is if you can get dad to handle it for a few nights--easier when they can't see/smell/grab ahold of you and refuse to let go. Although since you co-sleep I guess that might be hard.
I'll email you tomorrow with some more (or if you have more ?'s, email me).
I kept waiting for my 1st daughter to start self-led weaning as well. Never happened. When she turned two, I finally decided it had to stop. (I'd been ready to stop for 6 months by that time.) I think I was still nursing her three times a day at that point. The thing that made me keep nursing her was that I knew that she loved it and I didn't want her to hate me for taking that away from her, KWIM? Anyway, I finally got the courage to do it after happening to see an episode of "Baby Whisperer", and the lady was working with a mom in the same situation. She told her that yes, the baby will cry, the baby will be angry, but the baby will not hate you. Yes, it will be a tough week, but you will all get through it. You can't give in.
Anyway, sorry for the novel, but that's all the advice I have for you. Just do it. Yes, it will be hard, but he won't hate you. He'll get over it.
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