DS is 18m and still bf. He feeds usually 3 times a day - when he wakes, before his nap and before bed. He rarely fusses to be fed, and indeed will happily miss either of the first 2 feeds eg some mornings dh just gets him with him and gives him breakfast and I don't feed him until nap time, and sometimes if he has fallen asleep in car or pushchair he just goes straight in to his cot for his nap without a feed. (In fact today dh got up with him AND he fell asleep in the car, so I have not fed him today at all yet!)
So really, it doesn't impact on our lives particularly. Its not like he has to be fed, he eats well and manages quite happily without it. I haven't not fed him at bedtime yet, but last night for the first time I fed him before his bath, rather than straight before he goes in to his cot, and dh did the rest of bedtime and got him to sleep with not too much trouble. So ds isn't reliant on it either.
DH is making more and more noise about when I am going to stop feeding ds altogether. His one and only reason for this is because he thinks its weird to feed older babies. He knows about the WHO guidelines etc, but he still doesn't like it (despite the fact he never even watches me feed ds and as I say, it doesn't get in the way of anything either)
I personally would like to carry on until ds is at least 2, and see how we go from there. But I also realise that (health benefits aside) this is probably more for me than for ds as I think he would probably be ok about stopping.
I feel that I should however, be respectful (for want of a better word) of dh's views as well. It basically comes down to he wants me to stop and I don't want to stop.
What do I do?!
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tory79 · 01/04/2013 15:38
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