Hi there,
I've read through a number of the posts and have found all of the advice on weaning very helpful. I've been bf'ing my lo for almost 14 months. Somewhere around his first birthday I began to get those first feelings of being 'done' with bf'ing. Not that it's been bad, quite the contrary; we've had a great nursing relationship and it's been a very special time. As for going about weaning, I've really been going more on instinct rather than following a set plan. First I stopped nursing to sleep, so ds wouldn't still have that habit when I started to wean. Then I dropped the mid-afternoon feed, which he didn't seem to miss at all. So I've been doing first thing in the a.m., a mid-morning feed, and bedtime. Well, today, the mid-morning feed was dropped as I offered him a snack along with some cow's milk (which he's really begun to like).
I was just sitting here realizing that as of today, it looks like we're down to 2 feeds a day. And believe it or not, the bedtime one seems to be less and less important to him, as it is not the way he falls asleep anymore. So now that it's hitting me that we could be close to a total weaning in the next month or so, I'm feeling all emotional
On the one hand, I feel ready to wean and move forward with the next chapter in our relationship, but of course it's sad because I'll never nurse this particular child ever again.
Anyway, just wanted to get my feelings out there and I may be back whenever he's weaned completely, to come on here and sob.....