My lovely DD is now 26 months old and still having two feeds per day - one on waking and one before bed. I also have a 16 week old who is ebf. Before the new baby arrived, DD1 was down to just the evening feed, but started wanting mornings again when DD2 arrived and I didn't feel I could say no, with all the upheaval.
I had increasingly bad nursing anxiety while I was pregnant and really wanted to stop, but we hung on in there and now it's all pretty much ok again. However, I'm returning to work in a few weeks and I really need all the time in the mornings that I can get, particularly as I'm going to need to express and that's the best time for me to do it. I could also really do with dropping the night feed - again for time and flexibility reasons.
However, while the new baby is on the 98th centile and as fat as butter, DD1 is, and has been since about 4 months, on the 2nd centile - she is actually not very much heavier than her little sister. She's also at nursery and picks up all the usual vast array of bugs, plus she does the usual toddler thing of eating like a horse for a few days and then nothing but toast for a day or two. I'm worried she has no spare reserves and that BF is still providing her with a really good source of calories, and that removing it would be massively selfish of me.
So I would welcome your thoughts: she is a PFB of course; so am I worrying too much about this? Milk supply is massive so am not worried about tandem feeding effects on DD1.
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Stopping feeding 2 year old - should I, or am I being mean?
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Goldrill · 13/02/2013 20:31
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