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Mixed feelings about DD dropping feeds, that's pretty standard, yes?

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StetsonsAreCool · 09/01/2012 21:20

Please say yes Smile

She's 19mo. I've always had 2 years as my personal goal for feeding, and if she hadn't weaned herself by then I'd help her along, as it were.

At 18 months she started wanting about 5 feeds a day again (at weekends, obviously in the week there was no chance with work) and I thought she'd never want to give it up.

And yet, just a few short weeks later, she's started to forget to ask for her 'hometime' feed. So much so, that she hasn't had it for 5 days. Still likes a great big feed in our bed in the morning though.

Part of me is relieved she's doing it herself, and glad to be able to get on with cooking the tea etc when I get home. And not be kicked in the face (she's an active feeder). But I'm a little bit, well, I don't know how to describe it. Not sad, but like I've lost a piece of something I can't put my finger on.

That's ok though, isn't it?

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coldcomfortHeart · 09/01/2012 22:44

Definitely. I fed ds1 until he was 2.2, he more or less self-weaned with a tiny bit of persuasion, and i an bf ds2 now and I still feel a bit sad at not bf ds1 anymore! Silly really but totally normal I reckon.

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