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Catherine Woodgold wrote: *I don't see how cold-turkey weaning would be any *easier or more helpful than cold-turkey night weaning. Not that this is applicable to the original poster's particular situation, but regarding this quoted comment.... for what it's worth, when my daughter was 18 mos old, I needed to wean her. It was a mental health thing for me, and a physiological need for her. I tried to wean her "gently," by dropping her least favorite nursing (she was nursing 8+ times a day), by shortening it little by little... but, the problem was, on days when I in any way attempted to restrict her nursing, she just screamed and wailed until such time as she got to nurse again. Literally! Like, if normally she would nurse for five minutes in the morning, and I cut her back to four minutes, she would cry and beg to nurse for the next 2.5 hours until the next nursing time would begin. It was a nightmare. On the other hand, if I left the house after her morning nursing and was out all day, she would hang out with her minder (whoever it was - our au pair, my mom, whatever) and her brother and be perfectly fine without asking about nursing or anything. So what I ultimately did was to just stop, cold turkey. After a few days of my being out of the house all day, she no longer asked to nurse when she saw me. I'm not saying this is a recommended method for everyone! But for my daughter it was MUCH less traumatic for us both to wean cold turkey! -- Hillary Israeli, VMD Lafayette Hill/PA/USA/Earth "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." --Groucho Marx |
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