nearly 36 weeks & still breastfeeding

[princesscupcakemummyb]

hi all i need some advice im nearly 36 weeks pregnant and still breastfeeding my nearly 2 year old im so fed up now and she just wont give up breastfeeding i need advice on how to get her to stop now i really intend to breastfeed the newborn but way its going im so fed up i cant take much more of this ive tried to explain to my dh how fed up i am but he dont get it and theirs no signs of my daughter wanting to stop breastfeeding i have no intention of tandum feeding 2 children so some one plz advice

I'd have a look at the kellymom website and you really need to get DP on board with you to support and help.

thank you for the reply ThisIsMeNow i shall have a look at the website i am trying to but hes a typical man dont listen in that sence

You need to sit him down and make him realise what it's doing to you. Just because he's a man is not an excuse. He needs to help you, his pregnant wife, with your children.

thank you tonight when the kids went bed i sat him down and told him how hard it is for me i think it finally got through what its doing to me now going to be taking steps to stop dd from breastfeeding dh now knows he must help me and cant leave it all up to me to wean her

will you consider going away for a few days and nights? and leave dd with dh?
that's what i did although i was no where near 36 weeks pg at the time but i was so ill and tired with early pg i just couldn't face bf dd any longer. so i went away for few days and nights and it worked really well

Hi princess
I stopped feeding my 2 year old a month ago. Just after his birthday I decided I had had enough of breastfeeding and wanted to stop.

I knew I would have to initiate stopping as he was very attached to breastfeeding. He was still feeding day and night and I had tried more gentle ways to stop (dont offer dont refuse) well as distracting him when he asked but it didnt work.

I decided to go semi-cold turkey (read about the bad things that can happen if you just go cold turkey like mastitis so wanted to avoid those). I couldn't really stop by dropping a feed every week or so as he wasnt really in a routine with feeds and would ask for them at various times of the day.

I decided that the only time I would feed him was the morning feed.

Dp took over bedtimes for awhile. When he woke in the night I comforted him and told him to wait till the morning for a feed. He mostly slept though once we stopped the bedtime feed anyway.

During the day I kept him busy and distracted him when he wanted to feed. We also talked to him a lot about how he was getting big and could have milk from the fridge in his cup now.

I followed kellymoms website advice about taking sage to dry up milk and this also helped a lot.

After a few weeks of just the one breastfeed a day I decided to stop altogether and distracted him as soon as he woke by giving him snacks and watching DVDs :)

It has been a month now since we stopped and I am so happy about how it went :)

Sorry forgot you were pregnant, I'm not sure if you can take sage when pregnant, so best ask your midwife. Goodluck!