Dd suddenly went on a breastfeeding strike 2wks ago, aged 10.5mths. She was teething, had a sore throat and just quit. She's refused to take the breast since despite previously being a total boob monster. I had been planning to cut back to morning and evening at a year so I'm not totally devastated. She's not been at all stressed by it although she won't take formula or expressed milk so I have been giving her a vitamin supplement. She eats well and drinks plenty of water.
However the week she stopped feeding I seemed to get really depressed. I was was in floods of tears by the Friday ( she quit Mon AM ) and have never felt so low. It scared me tbh. I've made a Dr's appointment to have a chat about it but could it have been due to some sort of hormone crash from stopping breast feeding? I did a quick google and it seems other women have experienced similar but thought I'd ask on MN. I have been feeling happier in the last week or so. Other factors could possibly be PND, the mirena coil ( fitted in Feb ) or just the sheer lack of sleep and current stress I'm under at the moment. I got my period on the Sat and everything seemed to improve so not sure what's going on. 