DS is nearly two and I've planned to wait until he self-weans. I work full-time so he's been down to a couple of feeds most day since late 2005. The last six months or so he has started wanting to nurse more frequently at weekends and when I am around, which has been fine. But it's just continuing to escalate.
For example, most mornings now he's up at 4am wanting to come into bed with us for a feed -- I don't particularly mind that, but he wants to latch on from that point until it's time to get up. If I won't let him then he goes into full-on two-year-old tantrums, flinging himself about and screaming, and as he's an... ahem... "intense" child this can go on for some time. So one way or another DH and I don't get any sleep. And then about twenty minutes after he's got up he generally wants another feed. And if it's a weekend he seems to want a feed every hour at least if we are at home (he never askes when we are out).
Bringing this to a head is the fact that I'm now pregnant again (very early days, and I've not mentioned it on MN yet, hence the namechange). I am not going to be able to keep this up throughout pregnancy, and I am concerned about what effect his nursing like a newborn is going to have on my hormone levels (I know plenty of women nurse through pregnancy and tandem nurse with no problems, which is what I'd ideally like to do at the couple-of-feeds-a-day level).
So, I really need some advice. Can I get him to cut down a bit and if so, how?
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MilkMarketingBoob · 18/01/2007 11:49
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