Cameron weaned - A litle sad about that :(

3_call_me_mama wrote: Cameron had pink eye last week and stayed home with DH for 2 days while I went to the daycare center that we own and worked. Cameron usually goes there with me everday but could not with a contagious infection, so that meant that for two days he couldn't nurse at naptime which he LOVES to do. He was only nursing twice a day, at nap and at bed so as you can imagine i was quite full when it was bedtime on the first day. Well that night he nursed around 7:30 but didn't go to sleep until 9 and he kinda just talked himself to sleep wehn he did go. The second night i got home just before dinner and we ate and started reading stories and watched a little bit of sesame street adn then before i knew it he was out at like 7:30, laying on the couch with me. SO i put him to bed and expected that at 9 he would wake up and aske for "moke pease" but to my surprise I woke up at 6 the next morning and he was still sleeping very soundly and had not woken at all!! I of course was VERY uncomfortable but figured that it was now or never he hadn't nursed in a day and a half and letting him go back now go begin a nursing frenzy from him adn i also wanted to have him weaned by march anyway because withthe new baby on the way i didn't want to have nursing fresh in his mind when the new little one came home and began to nurse. SO Friday naptime he asked for "moke pease" and i just told him "you drank it all, mommy didn't make anymore" and he fussed for like 2 minuted and squirmed trying to get into my shirt but then just gave up and cuddled with me for about 10 minutes and said "night'night mama" and went to his nap cot and went to sleep. While i was very proud of him i was also a little sad becasue he is growing up so fast and it seems that soon he won't need me at all!

~CrazieMama~ replied: Awwwww, Im sorry your sad....but at least you won't have both of them eating lunch at the same time. Hugs to you....

MommyToAshley replied: This is such a bitter-sweet milestone.

I kind of know what you mean... Ashley is down to nursing just before bedtime and that is it. I will be sad when she weans, but I know it is coming soon. Sometimes she doesn't nurse very long at all. But, she still asks for it.

CantWait replied: That sounds so sad. Congrats on the weaning, big hugs to you. I know I'll be in the same boat one day soon

MomToMany replied: Hugs to you! It's a hard thing to go through, I imagine (I haven't yet). Hannah is still nursing 3 or 4 times a day (at 22 months). Cameron will always need his mommy, even when he's all grown up. They will never not need us, if that makes sense.

aspenblue1 replied: I felt the same way when Isabella weaned herself.

Kaitlin'smom replied: awww I know how you feel Kaitlin hardly nurses anymore in fact she will go a couple days and not nurse then want to nurse and then off a few more days. It wont be long before she wont do it at all.

amynicole21 replied: Hugs to you!!! I'm so glad that it went pretty easily, though! Cameron received the best possible start in life, and it's something can never be taken away from him.

I was worried that Sophia would have weaned herself this week since I was in Las Vegas on business for 4 days. She didn't ask to nurse when I first got home, but I asked her if she wanted to and she was like "oh yea! I forgot about that!!!" She practically ripped my shirt off in the process of screaming "zurse! zurse!"

DansMom replied: Oh, I bet that's bittersweet! He's a bigger boy now...

coasterqueen replied: Awww :-( Glad the weaning process was easy on both of you.

Gosh! I must be the only person on this board with a toddler nursing CONSTANTLY! Kylie will more than likely NEVER wean so easily I've pretty much just figured that I'm praying she will wean when I'm pg with our second one. LOL.

jem0622 replied: Such a bittersweet time! But I am sure that him self weaning is a big help to Mommy since you are expecting. I felt like I had this weight on my shoulders trying to wean Gabe. I was sad and tired. But I knew my body's limits too. HUGS.

Julie

kimberley replied: awww it's so hard to watch them grow sometimes.

WTG Cameron and many hugs for mom!