Did your feelings about breastfeeding change once you had stopped?

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I have been wondering...once you stopped feeding, did you look back nostalgically and miss it even thought at the time it was tough or boring or painful?

Or, did you love it at the time and think it was beautiful and magical, but now that you have stopped, can't get too excited about it, and when you hear people going on about bf think 'well, actually, it isn't so important after all'?

Can your feelings about bf change once you are no longer doing it? If so, why?

I remember breast feeding very fondly.

Didn't have major problems (in retrospect: at the time it felt difficult at first) and loved the snuggly feeling and the convenience. I would encourage anybody to try to get past that initial hard part for those rewards.

I suppose what has changed is that, having stopped, I can't now imagine breast feeding my toddler (18m). I don't have any issues at all with extended breast feeding but just can't imagine feeding my daughter IYSWIM. Had we carried on through to now, doubtless it wouldn't feel odd at all.

I feel really emotional now that I have stopped BF. I wish I had kept going for longer, for many reasons I stopped feeding DD2 at 8 months. Sometimes I still feel like getting my boob out for her Its a natural and wonderful thing for mummy and baby.