weaning a 3.7 year old from the boob

[witchwithallthetrimmings]

How? i have been doing "don't offer don't refuse" since she was 2 and although she does not feed every day; she can go through patches of demanding it loads. I restrict it to early mornings and bedtimes. I really really want to stop. I can see that she has benefited from feeding for so long but am I only just comfortable with feeding a girl of this age and know that i would (rightly or wrongly) feel squeamish about feeding her when she gets much older.

I stopped bf'ing my DS on his third birthday - it was a date to aim for, and we talked about it loads beforehand.

He cried that night like his little heart would break but he never asked after that again

I think if you prepare her, she might surprise you with how well she takes it

Good luck!

thanks tante, i have tried to have the talk (we have been having it on and off for about a year). Discussions starting "Big girls don't have it" just prompt her to say " i am not a big girl, i am a little bit big girl, little bit big girls have E (her name for bm))" what did you say?

I think you have to be very firm, and say no a lot.

Say there isn't any left?

Hope it works out.

I said that when boys get to age 3, they stop having mummy's milk!

He knew that his friends didn't breastfeed anymore

It made it easier that it was his birthday, and it seemed to him that that is what happened when you turned 3 (he had lots of presents to take his mind off my boobs