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Whether you nurse your baby for 3 weeks or 3 years, when the time comes when you decide to stop nursing there is a process involved. Prior to having kids I would have never known that so much goes into breastfeeding and weaning! After experiencing weaning three times now here are 5 simple tips for making the process as smooth as possible: 1. Introduce milk/formula prior to dropping feedings: I weaned my girls from breastmilk straight to whole milk as they were older when the weaning process started. I would still continue to nurse them for each feeding but started to offer whole milk in a sippy cup along with their solid food. This helped them to learn to like milk which made it easier as I dropped nursing sessions. 2. Timing is everything: Some kids are ready to stop nursing and may not care one bit, others will take some adjusting. By picking a time where you are more busy and leaving the home or even having the child in the care of someone else it makes droppin...
They say third time is the charm and when it came to my breastfeeding experiences, this was FOR SURE true. Out of all of my kids so far, Tess and I had the best nursing bond. She just loved it. I know I had heard from people before how much their babies loved to nurse and I never really understood that. Both Kye and Britt just weren't that way. Tess never, ever got the least bit distracted while nursing. I never had to force her head to eat. She never wanted to stop! I could tell it was something she just really enjoyed and it really deepened our bond together as well. The downside of her love for nursing was that the child never did take a bottle very well. She wanted the real thing! I introduced whole milk when Tess was 10 months old but she wasn't a huge fan and continued to just want to nurse over getting milk in any other form. I took the longest to wean her out of all my babies and it also made for the easiest weaning experience. The week after...
This summary covers Tess's 11th month of life (so she's 10 months old in this post). This month was from June 1- June 30th. Nursing: Tess still really, really loves nursing. By this point I wasn't nursing Kye at all anymore and Britt was all over the place. Tess has no desire to do anything else when it's nursing time. I love it. She loves it. :) It's really the only time when she IS calm and cuddly at this point! She's also still very "urgent" with it. She knows when its nursing time and she's ready for business! My FAV is when she falls asleep while nursing! She is falling asleep less and less at the last feeding of the day and is silly now when she's awake. She will hop off my lap and be so funny! This particular time she immediately laid on the pillow next to me and tried to be sneaky to grab the remote ha! When Kye was a baby he constantly swung his head back to look upside down. Tess does the same thing and ...
