Thinking of stopping BF (1 year) but feel terrible

[belindarose]

I can't seem to get my head around this. I'm having thoughts of weaning 1 year old DD, but feel so guilty every time I think of it. We had a really difficult start to BF, but overcame it and it's been great. DD still very keen, especially at night. I'm just not feeling the same about it all of a sudden. I had thought we'd just carry on till she stopped, now I'm not so sure. Is there anything I can read/ do to help me make a decision? I'm a bit over-emotional at the moment, just about to return to work and leave DD with CM for the first time (2 days a week), still not getting much sleep at night. Maybe not a good time to make a decision. Oh dear.

I think stopping when you're not sure is probably the worst thing to do because if you then decide you didn't want to stop, you're going to regret it which you don't want.

Have you read the kellymom stuff on nursing past a year? www.kellymom.com/bf/bfextended/index.html

Maybe some of the full term BFers on here can post some advantages for you... I'm not quite there yet myself so of little use!

Hope you can come to a decision and settle that it is the right one, whichever way that happens to be :)