breastfeeding

Has anybody got any tips or tricks for weaning a resistant 27 month old? I’ve got him down to 1 or 2 feeds a day but I’m finding those hard to drop.

My son is a comfort nurser and some recent setbacks of illnesses, starting nursery etc, seem to have made it harder for him. :(

Baby is almost 19 months, and we’ve been down to just a morning feed at this point. Have thankfully night weaned (working on weaning from the pacifier as well).

Is it usually baby who weans themselves, or is it a conscious action I need to take? I wouldn’t mind making it to the two year mark per recent medical guidelines, but not sure what the ending process should look like.

I will admit it is a bit bittersweet - it was so hard at the start. Anybody have any advice on this front?

I captured this little snippet of multitasking as a nursing mama, it makes me smile looking back at it. I was running late for something important and I was super stressed out as my little one was crying for me, so I plopped him up next to the sink so I could carry on getting ready. I caught sight of us in the mirror and laughed at how peaceful he now looked juxtaposed to my anxious expression. It calmed me down and I’ll treasure this picture forever. Sometimes nursing works the other way around and comforts us instead. :)

Yes, I did spill toothpaste on his head shortly after. It’s a work in progress… 😂

I was really conflicted whether to flag this as NSFW, as personally I don’t think there’s anything wrong with seeing a woman nursing their child in public, but I also didn’t want anybody getting questionable looks if a boob is on their screen while browsing at work. So I opted for NSFW in the end. I would love to know your thoughts on this in the comments. :)

ETA: I’ve unflagged this as NSFW after hearing some thoughts from other users and also opening Reddit for the first time in forever to refresh myself on how the breastfeeding community handled it over there.

I miss my son being this small - he was basically an immobile, hungry lil potato. There is no way I could game and feed these days, he’d be trying to join in and stealing the keyboard. RIP to my mythic ranking 😢

Hi there!

I created this community as I used to visit the breastfeeding subreddit and I haven’t yet found a similar community in the fediverse.

Breastfeeding your child is a beautiful yet often challenging journey and I wouldn’t still be continuing on my own one if I hadn’t found such wonderful support from online friends.

I seem to have been through it all - thrush, nipple confusion, mastitis, oversupply, undersupply and even a period of feeding rejection due to illness. So if anybody else is struggling with any of those please don’t hesitate to ask me anything.