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11 month old obsessed with breast

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peneloperabbit · 04/04/2008 13:18

Since returning to work I have been feeding my 11 month old boy in the morning when he wakes up and a little before bed. On my days off he sometimes gets a little extra and this has been working fine. Over the past week, we've all been off with some horrid nuseryitus and he's barely eaten anything (he usually eats vast quantities)so I've been breast feeding him a lot more which he seems to have found comforting. The only problem is he has now become totally obsessed with the breast! He is eating a lot more now, but still wants breast milk and gets into an enormous rage if i try and offer him formula or water (things he previously enjoyed.) He was back at nursery yesterday and was fine whilst there, but when he is with me he has a one track mind. Last night he woke at 1.30am for a feed (usually sleeps through)so I gave him one, but then when I tried to remove my nipple (my breasts were empty and he wasn't drinking)he had an enormous screaming tantrum - bashing me with his little hands, headbutting me, trying to pull down my top etc. This morning I have had to constantly divert him to new activities to distract him.
Does anyone have any advice on re-weaning? I have had to send him off with his Daddy today as I felt under siege!

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sparkymummy · 04/04/2008 17:13

I should think that after a couple of days he'll go back to how he was before. If hes been poorly he might be making up for lost time and calories, or he might still be feeling a bit under the weather and want the comfort. If you feel hes getting too much for you I would try and think of lots of things to keep you both busy (or let him have some more Dad days!) and after a few days he'll forget about it I should think. My DS is nearly 2 and had gastorentoritus, all he could keep down was dioralyte and rice cakes so for a few days after he was better he just cried for Postman Pat (we let him watch it over and over when he was ill as he didn't have any energ to play etc), rice cakes and "medicine Juice" but as he improved, and got back to doing his usual stuff he slowly forgot about them.

Let me know how you get on-I know what feeling under seige is like, DS still feeds now and some days I can't sit down on the sofa incase he sees it as an open invite to the milk bar!!!

uberalice · 04/04/2008 17:16

I had exactly the same thing with my DS2 a couple of weeks ago. He's 16 months old. It did settle down after a couple of days.

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