Stopping breastfeeding and 'the blues'?!

[notjustamummythankyou]

When I finished breastfeeding my ds when he was around a year old, I had three or four weeks of feeling pretty low afterwards - perhaps even longer. It was almost like having really bad PMT - very strange, and not something I expected at all!

Fast forward to the present, and my dd is nearly 11 months old and seems to be weaning herself off the breast without any intervention from me. I'm down to two short feeds each day (morning and night) and I can feel the blues starting again.

I've found a couple of articles on the t'interweb linking the end of breastfeeding to a possible low mood, but I wondered if anyone else has experienced this? I've mentioned it to a few people in RL, but I seem to be on my own in this. Any thoughts? TIA!

Yes, big time! I have never met anyone else who has experienced this. I felt the best I have ever felt in my life when bfing. do you suffer with bad pmt ? I think i felt so good while bf because i have always suffered with dreadful pmt & i got used to not dealing with it for so long then it hits you when you stop bfing.

Yes! But I think for me it was due to the reason why I stopped. I felt like it was taken outta my hands. And then with the girl on solids n the odd bottle it was a control thing. Crap whatever way I look at it

whatyou - no, I've never really suffered from pmt, which is why this is a bit of a surprise!

My periods came back a couple of months ago, so obviously hormone levels are changing. I've been lucky in that my bf experience has been really positive from the start - not even a cracked nipple. But now I've got this.

Thank you both for replying - I don't feel such an emotional freak now!

Looking back I think the end of BF might have explained my very out of character strop andsonsession at work a few years back. DD slowly giving up, and PMT so, so much worse these days, so expecting more of the same around now :(

That should say strop and weeping session!