Weaned ds3 from the breast. Am feeling a bit crap about it. :(

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I went cold turkey with ds3 3 days ago. I had various reasons for stopping and had tried to cut down slowly before and it really didn't work. So I told him it was "all gone". But he is sad about it and now I feel rubbish. He still seems to love me though!

Awwww... how old is he? It's tough when you know you are fed up but the child isn't, yet.

He's 2.6 so not a baby by any means!I just feel that a lot of the reasons I weaned him were for me rather than him, i.e I am ttc at the moment and felt it could be affecting fertility, I want to be able to wear a dress, instead of always separate top and trousers. On the other hand, he wasn't really eating a lot as was filling up on BM so I think it will be better for him in the long run. Just feel it's the end of something special.

I went cold turkey stopping bfing my 19 month old dd2. I was really surprised my hormones went haywire for a few days, and I was really upset. I felt a lot better after about a week or two. Well done for bfing so long!

Actually, I do feel hormonal, a bit like the baby blues now that I think of it.

Awww, sorry you feel bad cm. I was the same with ds1 and I was exclusively expressing! For me, it was sad b/c it was the end of something that only I could give him and kind of made me feel special IYKWIM. But, you're right, it has to end sometime and if your ttc it is probably for the best.

Still extremely impressed that you're going for #4. I don't even see patients every day and can't handle two sometimes, lol.

BTW (and sorry for the hijack) I saw a patient a couple of weeks ago with acute onset of myopia and secondary angle closure glaucoma from Topamax. Veeeeery interesting case.

"you're ttc"

I did my own pet peeve.

LOL, jabberwocky, did I say I could handle 4? I have given ds1 the job of raising ds3 as he has more patience for the task and ds3 listens to him more than me!
ttc partially because I still hanker after a little girl even though after 3 boys it probably will be more of the same! But I'm OK with that, the other reason is that ds1 and ds2 are so close in age and I feel ds3 gets "left behind" a lot.
I have had a relatively quiet time in work lately, nothing so interesting to report! Oh, we did have one lady who told our dispensing optician that she had "guacamole" in her eye but it turned out she meant glaucoma!

a colleague had a patient with a hx of "rectal detachment"

owwww, that sounds pretty painful!

Just in the process of weaning dd at 20 months, and I also have mixed feelings. Am still feeding her morning and evening but I dont think there is really any milk there - she seems to be just suckling rather than drinking.

Reason for weaning - I am pregnant, sore boobs and knackered and wanted to wean before baby comes.

I have same feeling of not being special any more - she has been a bit extra clingy to me but in a whingey way as though she doesnt know how to get close to me any more, and cant quite settle for cuddles, stories or playing.

You are brave going for number 4 - I am terrified or having 2!

I'm in Ireland, tigerbalm, no-one bats an eyelid at 4 children here! Tbh in the last few days I have actually gotten more hugs from ds3 then I did before, it hasn't seemed to take him long to realise that the
"boo-boo" is over and done with, I'm actually quite surprised aat how well he's coping considering that he was a total boob-monster! We were in church at my Dad's anniversary mass 2 weeks ago and he kept pulling at my top saying "boo-boo, BOO-BOO!" very loudly. When I didn't respond he then went."MILK, MILK!" as if he thought I hadn't understood the first time!
I'd say your dd is still getting milk, tb, it's amazing how much is still produced at that stage, when you are cutting down. I think it is more a case that it is made "as needed" so even if you were to feed every other day, there would still be milk.
I tried cutting down but ds3 is so demanding and couldn't understand why it was OK to bf sometimes and not at other times, so I ended up having to just cut it out altogether.