After much internal debate, and reading I decided this was the month to start to wean Nathan. He is eating a ton of solid food, and I am not producing a whole lot of milk. And I am really tired of nursing. I am glad that I pushed through month 10 of his life and kept nursing even though I wanted to quite a million times. But now we are into month 11 and I would like to be down to one or two nursings a day by the time he is a year. The only problem is that this kid LOVE to nurse.
What's weird is I think that he began to sense that I was going to cut him off so he started nursing nicely again. No wiggling around like a monkey, no biting. He's actually been a good nurser for a couple of weeks now. He's trying to real me back in. :)
I tried to transition him to the sippy cup. He keeps choking because the flow is too fast. My babysitter told me this was normal with babies that are breastfed. So I am trying to transition him to a bottle first, then we will work on sippy cups. He's not quite a year and I don't want to push it too much.
So I started pumping during the day and starting to slowly introduce cows milk to him. So far he is tolerating it just fine. He will only drink his milk bottle if he is distracted though. He needs to be in his stoller on a walk, in the car, being read a story, or (yikes) watching something on youtube or the TV. I know I made it almost a year with no TV, that's a story for another post.
He still climbs up me when we usually nurse and tries to suck on my chest. But he is taking the bottle. The other day he was in love with his bottle and wouldn't let it go.
What's weird is I think that he began to sense that I was going to cut him off so he started nursing nicely again. No wiggling around like a monkey, no biting. He's actually been a good nurser for a couple of weeks now. He's trying to real me back in. :)
I tried to transition him to the sippy cup. He keeps choking because the flow is too fast. My babysitter told me this was normal with babies that are breastfed. So I am trying to transition him to a bottle first, then we will work on sippy cups. He's not quite a year and I don't want to push it too much.
So I started pumping during the day and starting to slowly introduce cows milk to him. So far he is tolerating it just fine. He will only drink his milk bottle if he is distracted though. He needs to be in his stoller on a walk, in the car, being read a story, or (yikes) watching something on youtube or the TV. I know I made it almost a year with no TV, that's a story for another post.
He still climbs up me when we usually nurse and tries to suck on my chest. But he is taking the bottle. The other day he was in love with his bottle and wouldn't let it go.
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