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Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / January 2009Nearly done....
After almost fourteen months, I reckon Katie and I are both about ready to finish with breastfeeding. She's actually been ready for a good few months now, but I did encourage her to keep going until now; partly because I thought it might be helpful for her to get the antibody boost through the winter, and partly because I enjoyed it and felt a pang at the thought of giving up, especially since I won't be having another child and so, when I finish this time, that'll be it for good. However, by now we've dropped to three breastfeeds a week (the three mornings a week that I'm home from work – the evening feed has now gone), and, last week, I decided it was getting to be time. She'll be fourteen months old this weekend, so I decided that that was a good round age to keep it going to and I'd continue until then and then stop. So, in a few more days, that'll be that. After two children, a lot of pumping, gallons of milk donation, and an aggregate total of two and a half years of lactating, it'll finally be time for my breasts to go into honourable retirement. After all the troubles I had in Jamie's early months, my experience with Katie has been smooth sailing, and it looks like it's now going to be that way right through until the end. I'm really pleased about that. I inevitably feel a little wistful about stopping - the end of yet another parenting era. But I'm thrilled to have had the chance to be a breastfeeding mum, and I reckon I did a damn good job. All the best, Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.typepad.com End of an era! #3's getting closer to giving up, he's beginning not to want as much and sometimes needsa hug when before he'd have wanted a feed. I can't help feeling sad. I've been pregnant or breastfeeding for 9 years next month, and sometimes both.... Debbie After almost fourteen months, I reckon Katie and I are both about ready to finish with breastfeeding. She's actually been ready for a good few months now, but I did encourage her to keep going until now; partly because I thought it might be helpful for her to get the antibody boost through the winter, and partly because I enjoyed it and felt a pang at the thought of giving up, especially since I won't be having another child and so, when I finish this time, that'll be it for good. However, by now we've dropped to three breastfeeds a week (the three mornings a week that I'm home from work – the evening feed has now gone), and, last week, I decided it was getting to be time. She'll be fourteen months old this weekend, so I decided that that was a good round age to keep it going to and I'd continue until then and then stop. So, in a few more days, that'll be that. After two children, a lot of pumping, gallons of milk donation, and an aggregate total of two and a half years of lactating, it'll finally be time for my breasts to go into honourable retirement. After all the troubles I had in Jamie's early months, my experience with Katie has been smooth sailing, and it looks like it's now going to be that way right through until the end. I'm really pleased about that. I inevitably feel a little wistful about stopping - the end of yet another parenting era. But I'm thrilled to have had the chance to be a breastfeeding mum, and I reckon I did a damn good job. All the best, Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.typepad.com >End of an era! >#3's getting closer to giving up, he's beginning not to want as much and >sometimes needsa hug when before he'd have wanted a feed. I can't help >feeling sad. I've been pregnant or breastfeeding for 9 years next month, and >sometimes both.... >Debbie I was never both I don't think. I got pregnant December 1960, weaned dd#1 at about a year (Aug 1962), got pregnant Jan 1962 with dd#2, weaned her in June 1964, and didn't get pregnant with dd#3 until September 1967, weaned her in August 1969, got pregnant with ds in April 1970. But he wasn't weaned until about June 1974. He was old enough to open my blouse if he wanted. So it was a span of almost 15 years, but with gaps. It is sad to give that up. I did have overlaps with children in diapers, and I must say it was much simpler then. We had cloth diapers and somewhat primitive disposables, and there wasn't any of the covers or whatever you guys are talking about. I used a diaper service when they were newborn and I ordered 90 diapers a week at the beginning. They were prefolded or contoured, but after I stopped the diaper service (usually at about 6 weeks) I just had regular old Birdseye diapers that I had to fold myself and plastic pants to go over them. >After almost fourteen months, I reckon Katie and I are both about >ready to finish with breastfeeding. She's actually been ready for a [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > >Sarah > After almost fourteen months, I reckon Katie and I are both about > ready to finish with breastfeeding. Well done. How nice to end on such a positive note :) -- Nikki |
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