I'm wondering how any of you may have dealt with this in your own families.
My partner was super-supportive of the idea of me nursing our son, but the reality of it, and how dependent he is on the boob for comfort and falling asleep, is, understandably, very hard for her. She feels like we aren't equal moms, because we really aren't, are we? Not when only one of us has boobs that make milk.
I said I wanted to nurse for at least a year, and he's coming up on 14 months, and I am not at all ready to stop. Not at all. This is surely in part because I had a long struggle to conceive and a long struggle to breastfeed (he's been supplemented from the beginning), and, dammit, I want to enjoy every moment of this that I can!
I feel like this is such a tough issue, because both of our feelings and our identities as moms are involved.
I'm also not ok with forcing him to stop, but I think DP is thinking more of a nightweaning, stop pumping, slow-it-down already, approach. Mine would be a let-him-nurse-whenever-he-likes approach, coupled with my continued pumping at work to keep it going, knowing that eventually he'll be ready to stop.
My partner was super-supportive of the idea of me nursing our son, but the reality of it, and how dependent he is on the boob for comfort and falling asleep, is, understandably, very hard for her. She feels like we aren't equal moms, because we really aren't, are we? Not when only one of us has boobs that make milk.
I said I wanted to nurse for at least a year, and he's coming up on 14 months, and I am not at all ready to stop. Not at all. This is surely in part because I had a long struggle to conceive and a long struggle to breastfeed (he's been supplemented from the beginning), and, dammit, I want to enjoy every moment of this that I can!
I feel like this is such a tough issue, because both of our feelings and our identities as moms are involved.
I'm also not ok with forcing him to stop, but I think DP is thinking more of a nightweaning, stop pumping, slow-it-down already, approach. Mine would be a let-him-nurse-whenever-he-likes approach, coupled with my continued pumping at work to keep it going, knowing that eventually he'll be ready to stop.