Weaning off breastfeeding
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How are you going about weaning? I’ve been trying but my girl is boobie obsessed and screams for hours until I give in 😩
@Cheyenne I taught my baby to sign "All done" and "milk". When we're done with our night routine, I will sign to him. We have an established good night song and my husband and I sing it to him during the time he wants to breastfeed before bed. He does whimper but on and off for 15 - 30 minutes. We rub his back and I say out loud to myself that "This is part of growing up." I also snuggle him while he cries. I cried too and last night we cried together. I wore a shirt he can't unbutton and tucked it into my pajama pants.
@Winnie we’ve been doing all of that and she just screams! It took us an hour to get her down tonight. I think I’m just going to have to stay strong and keep at it
@Jourdan I weaned by dropping one feeding a month. We eventually got down to one night feeding at bed time. We maintained that feeding for the past 5 months. We dropped it two now three nights ago.
Hats off to you! I tried to do this about a week ago and I caved because my heart was breaking. Can you give me any tips on how you’re making it happen?