YEAH!!! THANKS, SiestaNoMore!!! You've given me some hope! I got on here to ask for ideas of how to cut out the constant "na-na!!!" cries. Cuddles and jumping to breakfast just haven't been enough!
I debated just going cold turkey when trying to figure out how to drop down from 3x/day but then things worked out to drop the morning one while we were traveling. HOWEVER, that was at the beginning of Nov, and she STILL begs for her morning nurse for probably an average of TWENTY MINUTES EVERY MORNING. AAAAAKKKK!!! Since we're ttc'n, hubby's just started taking her at night so that we can more easily cut out the night-time nursing. The first two nights were screams galore, but tonight she shocked me. I usually disappear around bedtime, but this time I handed her a sippy of milk (yes, we're being bad and not brushing her teeth afterward for now) and gave her a kiss as her daddy took her to bed and she just smiled and went with him! Ha!
She consistently has to be forced--yes forced!--off the breast. The other day I was watching TV (which I rarely do) and just let her keep nursing so I could finish the show, and another show later I realized she'd been nursing for over an hour! She's still getting plenty of milk (although not necessarily that whole hour of course!). Even when she's nursed on both sides, I can't really tell her that the milk's all gone, though, because she KNOWS that if she switches sides again there will be more there! I do love nursing. I hate to stop completely--and wouldn't if we weren't ttc'n. She makes me laugh: Whenever I tell her it's time for bed as she's nursing, she shakes her little head and points at my breast. "No it's not, I'm nursing!"