Although I've enjoyed exclusively breastfeeding my youngest for 21 months I want to stop now.
Reasons for stopping:
- I want to sleep better - we currently co sleep and he wakes 4 /5 times a night - I'm exhausted!
- I want a social life again and to be able to book a babysitter. At the moment I'm the only one who can do his bedtime due to feeding to sleep (my husbands never here in the evenings and the one time I left him with him he failed to get him to sleep the whole time I was out!)
- since my periods restarted I get nipple pain from mid month onwards and feeding is terribly uncomfortable
- im finding it hard to feed discretely in public now since my son moves from one breast to another constanly and keeps flashing my boobs to all and sundry. I don't want to stay home all the time as its unfair on my older son.
*i'm concerned that my toddler is not eating enough solid food, he takes 1 meal a day at most and fills up on breast milk instead. I'm concerned he's not getting a balanced diet as he's often poorly and gets every bug going :(
Alrhough ive made up my mind to stop my son has unfortunately not got the memo! He seems to want to feed more than ever. Weaning him is turning into a bit of a battle. I've tried distracting him, giving him milk in a cup or bottle, rocking him, never offering only giving when asked, skeroing in my front, nothing is slowing the amount he wants to feed. I'm at crisis point with it tbh.
I'm visiting the doctor this week and wonder if they can prescribe anything to stop my milk - it's harsh I know but I don't want to get to the point where I'm hating every single feed. I want to look back in bf with happy memories. At the sane time I don't want to cause emotional damage to my son by removing sonething so important to him. I'm very confused and stressed. Advice please!