Since I have been about 20 weeks preg­nant, I could tell that my milk sup­ply has been dip­ping more and more. My lit­tle milk man was still deter­mined to con­tinue nurs­ing though. He nursed sev­eral times a day at that point. Steadily, though, he has decreased his nurs­ing over the past weeks until he was down to one or two times a day pretty con­sis­tently. Well, the week­end of May 12 and 13, my fam­ily was in town, and with all the com­mo­tion of hav­ing them here, my lit­tle milk man seemed to for­get about nurs­ing. May 14th was the first day in his life that he went an entire day with­out nurs­ing. He did nurse the next day though, so I thought maybe he would slowly cut out that last session.

Well, this week, he went from Sun­day, May 20th until today with­out nurs­ing. Imag­ine my sur­prise when this morn­ing after I got him from his crib, the first thing he did was look at me and do the milk sign!

So, when do I say he offi­cially weaned? I have no idea, but I do know that I will let him nurse as long as he keeps ask­ing. Just for my own pur­poses, I would love it if he could make it until June 3rd, so I can say that he nursed for 19 months. I do know now that each time he nurses, I try to remem­ber every minute of it. I real­ize that each time that could be the last time we ever do that, and I won’t know it at the time. I’ll only be able to look back and real­ize it later.