Does anyone know how I can wean my 2 year old daughter? I'm desperate and can't handle it anymore. I am actually starting to hate it. I want to wean her in a gentle way without letting her scream for it, I don't want to be cruel about it. I'm not a CIO mom so my possibilities of weaning are very slim.
You might think I'm crazy for letting it get to the point of hating it but you don't know my daughter and there are probably very few nursers out there like her. She would stay attached to me all day if she could. I cannot sit at all anywhere without her coming over and climbing up me begging for it. She not only wants to nurse every time I get off my feet, but she wants to switch sides several times (in what could be up to a 30 minute session) while doing nursing gymnastics. This is exhausting and very annoying. Especially since most of the time I try to sit down its usually to play something with both kids. And if its to play with them then something usually goes wrong because she doesn't just lay there, she has to throw her feet around and start grabbing at things to annoy her brother. It usually ends up in a yelling match between them and I end up just getting up and not wanting to play anymore. Its actually like this more frequent than not.
I'm not even able to read to my son anymore because she has to be right in the middle nursing while grabbing and kicking at the book and her brother. She loves books and always wants me to read to her but after about page one the nursing and gymnastics starts. So we hardly ever finish a book in one sitting.
Riding in the car and being in public hasn't gotten any easier either. Its usually a newborn that needs constant feeding in public, but a walking talking 2 year old should be able to get through a shopping session or a 10 minute car ride without screaming in terror because I don't drop everything or pull over on the side of the freeway and give into her. We don't take trips or go many places with her unless we absolutely need to or have the resources to keep her busy. If we are on our way somewhere and she decides its time to nurse than she will scream until she gets it no matter how long it takes. And we aren't talking about newborn cries, we're talking about a 2 year old female with decibles that could set off car alarms.
Another huge problem is she needs to nurse to go to sleep and also the minute she wakes up. So if daddy or grandma is watching her during one of these two moments in time then they have to invest in some earplugs because she will give them a run for there money. So not only is it stressful for me, but the whole family.
Night time is the worst but we won't even go there, sleep deprivation is not something I feel like talking about right now.
Well this cry for help turned into a novel so I am here to take any advice I can get. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? or is there no hope until SHE is ready? I was willing to go as long as she needed to but its gone beyond just casual nursing now, she is obsessed.
Thanks,
Trish
You might think I'm crazy for letting it get to the point of hating it but you don't know my daughter and there are probably very few nursers out there like her. She would stay attached to me all day if she could. I cannot sit at all anywhere without her coming over and climbing up me begging for it. She not only wants to nurse every time I get off my feet, but she wants to switch sides several times (in what could be up to a 30 minute session) while doing nursing gymnastics. This is exhausting and very annoying. Especially since most of the time I try to sit down its usually to play something with both kids. And if its to play with them then something usually goes wrong because she doesn't just lay there, she has to throw her feet around and start grabbing at things to annoy her brother. It usually ends up in a yelling match between them and I end up just getting up and not wanting to play anymore. Its actually like this more frequent than not.
I'm not even able to read to my son anymore because she has to be right in the middle nursing while grabbing and kicking at the book and her brother. She loves books and always wants me to read to her but after about page one the nursing and gymnastics starts. So we hardly ever finish a book in one sitting.
Riding in the car and being in public hasn't gotten any easier either. Its usually a newborn that needs constant feeding in public, but a walking talking 2 year old should be able to get through a shopping session or a 10 minute car ride without screaming in terror because I don't drop everything or pull over on the side of the freeway and give into her. We don't take trips or go many places with her unless we absolutely need to or have the resources to keep her busy. If we are on our way somewhere and she decides its time to nurse than she will scream until she gets it no matter how long it takes. And we aren't talking about newborn cries, we're talking about a 2 year old female with decibles that could set off car alarms.
Another huge problem is she needs to nurse to go to sleep and also the minute she wakes up. So if daddy or grandma is watching her during one of these two moments in time then they have to invest in some earplugs because she will give them a run for there money. So not only is it stressful for me, but the whole family.
Night time is the worst but we won't even go there, sleep deprivation is not something I feel like talking about right now.
Well this cry for help turned into a novel so I am here to take any advice I can get. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? or is there no hope until SHE is ready? I was willing to go as long as she needed to but its gone beyond just casual nursing now, she is obsessed.
Thanks,
Trish
