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Well this is day 3 of no bf for DS

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StatelyPoshBeartrothal · 29/04/2011 15:15

Decided to stop on his birthday. On the day itself we were out, so he fell asleep in the car on the way back and was transferred to bed without a bf.
Yesterday he asked but then remembered he is a big boy and doesn't have it any more. He got his "end of bf" present, which kept him happy.
Today he is out so will do the sleep in the car thing again
Tomorrow is his birthday party with friends so hopefully he will be exhausted by that.
Is this it? Can it really be this easy or are we in for a shock in a week or so?

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thisisyesterday · 29/04/2011 15:17

i think it can be this easy yes... and i think it means he is happy to stop, which is nice as well :)
well done you

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StatelyPoshBeartrothal · 29/04/2011 15:21

yes I hope so
Just worried he will be OK for a while and then one night he'll be under the weather or really unhappy and then it'll be too late to go back iyswim.
Been awkward feeding him for a while, felt like he's had a bad latch and he's seemed to gasp for breath while feeding (like they do with a cold) - made me wonder whether he was infact losing his latch

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thisisyesterday · 29/04/2011 15:36

but i think you'll replace it with other things, so it isn't like you won't be able to comfort him in some other way.
also, i do know people whose older children have asked for it after a long while, and they've said yes but the children have just forgotten how to latch, so it's been a non-issue anyway

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StatelyPoshBeartrothal · 29/04/2011 15:56

true
but there are times when only a bf will do
(or his stuffed giraffe - maybe that will become the replacement :o)

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notremotelyintofootie · 29/04/2011 18:34

How old is he? I want to stop dd (17 months) but I know I will have a fight on my hands...

latrucha · 29/04/2011 18:43

I think it can be. My dd was 19 months when she stopped. She had been taking 5 feeds a day and she dropped them all one by one in a week and that was that. She did see an older child feeding about two weeks later and started asking, but I decided not to encourage it as I was ttc and waved a toy in her face and nothing more came of it. She still likes skin-on-skin at nearly 3 and a half, though and for a long time she liked to rest her head on my chest to relax.

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StatelyPoshBeartrothal · 29/04/2011 18:51

He is 4. I also have DD 19 months, and am getting tired of being a milking machine on an evening

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notremotelyintofootie · 29/04/2011 19:50

Tonight dd was slapping my tummy while feeding to sleep (I know that's bad but it's easy at the moment while I'm knackered)...slapping = she owns me! Lol

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StatelyPoshBeartrothal · 29/04/2011 19:51

DS was fed to sleep until well after he was 2 - was not really a problem to move on from that to going to sleep withiout a feed

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latrucha · 02/05/2011 21:56

Still easy?

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StatelyPoshBeartrothal · 02/05/2011 22:05

Funny you should ask, earlier today I was going to post in amazement at how easy it had been! He started to ask once and then stopped and corrected himself, and apparentyl once he asked DH but just in a trying it on way rather than upset.
And then tonight he was quite tired and upset and started asking for it, and got into that cycle where us saying no upset him more. However he was reasonably easily distracted (with a gardening leaflet :o) and was OK from then. I thought we wold have that or worse every night.

So, so far so good, really. I actually planned his last feed to be on his birthday but it didn't work out like that, so as it goes I have never fed a 4 year old :(

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StatelyPoshBeartrothal · 02/05/2011 22:07

And I feel loads better now I am no longer a milk machine. I still lie on his bed while he goes to sleep but its in a position I am comfortable with, and able to read my book. I don;t have the trapped feeling any more!

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StatelyPoshBeartrothal · 02/05/2011 22:08

Obv I am still feeding DD but I kind of expect that and she seems a bit less demanding (well in general, atm she is being a pain, and driving me mad)

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Preggersplayspop · 02/05/2011 22:15

Hi stealth, my weaning experience of ds1 was similar, easier than I imagined in the end, though taken a while to work up to it. He has asked a couple of times since but not very persistently. He did paw at me when I shared a bath with him once, so I haven't done that again!

It's a revelation to have him lie on my arm to go to sleep, and even....shock horror.....lie with his dad to go for a sleep instead of me.

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StatelyPoshBeartrothal · 02/05/2011 22:38

ahhh preggers that sounds lovly, how old was he at the time?

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latrucha · 03/05/2011 11:11

Well done! It's the trapped feeling htat makes it impossible. That and the hip ache!

Preggersplayspop · 03/05/2011 20:32

He was 3.5

He is a massive daddy's boy now, I rarely get a look in at bedtime anymore! I obviously served my purpose Grin

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