Hi. We've reached the 6 month exclusive b/feeding mark today punches air. I plan to continue to at least a year, but kind of wonder why there's that somewhat arbitrary cut off point in my mind. Since I plan to do BLW and generally lean towards a more AP style of parenting (God, don't you hate labels, makes me sound like a right precious cow) I can see myself basically continuing until my daughter doesn't want it -- or unless I turn to the bottle!
But MrB is less convinced. Don't get me wrong. Like me, he's gone from pre-birth thinking we needed routine/sleeping in own room/b/feeding only til 6 months) to a bit of a co-sleeping babywearer type.
But he's still erm about b/feeding a toddler. He thinks once the child can talk it shouldn't have bitty! It's just something he's not used to or seen and I think he needs a push to readjust, like he has already to so many things. He totally gets the idea of responding and being close and taking cues from the child helping to promote independence, but I think he just has to overcome this mental block. Oh, he doesn't care much for what others think, so it's not that that stops him.
So help me -- the sciencey/psychology stuff generally convinces him!