The Beautiful Letdown

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4 Times in 2 Days

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That is how often K has nursed in the past two days. Look­ing back, I can see that there has been a grad­ual decrease in his nurs­ing since win­ter ended and spring started. I think it’s even pos­si­ble that dur­ing the times we were trapped inside due to weather, he nursed for some­thing to do. Now that he’s get­ting older (2 years, 8 months), it wouldn’t be out of the ordi­nary for him to start mov­ing more and more toward wean­ing, I suppose.

I have never had a goal in mind for him as far as age goes, but I think I would like it if he could hang on until he turned 3. :) That’s a nice round num­ber, right? I’m just not ready to con­sider him a grad­u­ated nursling yet! I know that he could hang onto just these two nurs­ing ses­sions for a long time, and I hope he does, but only TWO in one day?!?!?!? That was a big sur­prise when I real­ized just how lit­tle he has been nurs­ing lately. Def­i­nitely bittersweet.

At least if he weans, I will still be nurs­ing A. A is show­ing no signs of wean­ing, and it looks very pos­si­ble that he could nurse as long or longer than K based on his nurs­ing ses­sions at this point.

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2 Comments to

“4 Times in 2 Days”

  1. On July 6th, 2008 at 4:36 pm MomOnTheGo Says:

    We’ve nursed twice a day for a very long time — maybe a year or more. Reid is nearly 4. She didn’t nurse at all for 2 days but then needed some milkies at nap­time when she was feel­ing sick. Who knows when she’ll fin­ish but I’m still will­ing for it to be her deci­sion. Good luck with the tran­si­tion — when­ever it happens.

  2. On July 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pm Heather Says:

    I know that I will be sad too when we are done nurs­ing. Lady­bug is the only baby I will get to nurse so I’m def­i­nitely NOT ready to be done. She’s 13 months old now (and started walk­ing last week!).