Is this what child-led weaning looks like?

[Harmony96]

DD is 27 months, so I highly doubt this is a nursing strike or anything, lol. She had been nursing about once/day, usually right after her afternoon nap. Sometimes we skip it b/c of circumstances and/or she doesn't ask or whatever. But several times over the past week, she'll wake up and ask for mah (her word for nursing), and then a few seconds later she changes her mind and asks for a cuppy of milk, or a cuppy of juice, or crackers, or something else. That part is not new. What IS new is that now, once she changes her mind about mah, I can't bring her back to the idea. I'll ask her if she wants some mah first, and she'll repeat the non-mah request. Even if I sit her down in the chair w/ me and show it to her, she pushes it away. I am 11 weeks pregnant but I still have plenty of milk, on both sides (despite not having used the right side for several weeks now). Another thing is that while DD has never been a slow nurser (even as a newborn she was an "eat and get it done" baby and didn't nurse for longer than 10 minutes), on the instances where she DOES stay in the mood for mah, she's done after only a minute or two.

We've had a wonderful nursing relationship thus far, and I was kind of looking forward to tandeming this fall (and who knows, maybe it could still happen), but I'm not sure how to feel about her different behavior. I'm so SO glad I had DH take a few nursing pictures last month, since they may be the last ones I have w/ DD. I just really don't know what to think yet about the possibility. I thought I was ready, but I am almost crying here while typing this all out.

[txgal]

G was 18 mo when I got pregnant with K. During my pregnancy he cut down to once a day and usually only for a few min. I really thought he would wean any minute, but he kept on and I ended up tandem nursing for a year. I don't think there is any way to know they are done until it happens. most of us I think wake up one day and realize we haven't nursed in a few days/weeks and that's how we know they were done.

[alegna]

I expect the taste has changed. With my first pregnancy nursing dd she commented on a taste change before I got a positive test and I had milk for months after that.

-Angela

[Lovenest]

First off hugs. She is on the younger side to wean so you have that going for you, she may just be too busy or interested in food right now.

Originally Posted by alegna

I expect the taste has changed. .

I would guess that too. Just keep offering, if she does "wean" for now she may pick up after baby is born.

[sapphire_chan]

Colostrum tastes like ground-up multi-vitamins. I have no idea how any child manages to nurse through a pregnancy with a second child. They must not have my taste for sweets.

So she might start up again after things go back to tasting good again, or she might be done. Have fun finding out!