dd is 13 months old, she's still a baby to me. I'm 13 weeks pregnant and I just can't stand nursing her anymore. I thought I'd try to force through pregnancy but I don't think I'm going to make it. I planned on CLW and tandem nursing and now I'm feeling bad that I just don't think that is going to work.
We managed to night wean and she started sleeping through the night and that helps. But now she wakes up at 5am and will want to nurse at least 5 times before 8am. She screams and screams if I refuse, even if we go quick little nips.
During the day it is non-stop asking to nurse. I'm being far more entertaining that I've ever been in my whole life and that still doesn't seem to help. We do tons of foods, always have snacks on hand, go outside, take trips in the car, and I'm just exhausted trying to distract her all day long. If I don't do anything, it'll be every 15-30 minutes, regardless if I let her nurse as long as she wants or we try to make it quick.
Quick nips don't go over well, she just gets mad. Long sessions don't go well because I get uncomfortable and because she squirms and presses on my breast. No matter how many times I stop nursing her when she does those things, she keeps doing it.
The crying is exhausting for me during the day and it just makes us both more miserable. She will cry and scream for more than an hour if I refuse to nurse and try offering her other things when she is really determined.
Sadly at this point, I'm just done. I don't see that distracting is working at all. I really just want to book a vacation and leave for a week and see if maybe that would take care of it, but I doubt it, plus it feels mean. I can't stand having her so upset but I need this weaning thing to move forward as well. sigh.
EDITED: Well, guess no one had any ideas. It's been another week and we're finally down to just 2-3 nursing sessions a day, it was just a lot of tears to get here. And I'm still having to be way more entertaining than I want most days, but oh well, maybe it'll easy up some more in the next few weeks.
We managed to night wean and she started sleeping through the night and that helps. But now she wakes up at 5am and will want to nurse at least 5 times before 8am. She screams and screams if I refuse, even if we go quick little nips.
During the day it is non-stop asking to nurse. I'm being far more entertaining that I've ever been in my whole life and that still doesn't seem to help. We do tons of foods, always have snacks on hand, go outside, take trips in the car, and I'm just exhausted trying to distract her all day long. If I don't do anything, it'll be every 15-30 minutes, regardless if I let her nurse as long as she wants or we try to make it quick.
Quick nips don't go over well, she just gets mad. Long sessions don't go well because I get uncomfortable and because she squirms and presses on my breast. No matter how many times I stop nursing her when she does those things, she keeps doing it.
The crying is exhausting for me during the day and it just makes us both more miserable. She will cry and scream for more than an hour if I refuse to nurse and try offering her other things when she is really determined.
Sadly at this point, I'm just done. I don't see that distracting is working at all. I really just want to book a vacation and leave for a week and see if maybe that would take care of it, but I doubt it, plus it feels mean. I can't stand having her so upset but I need this weaning thing to move forward as well. sigh.
EDITED: Well, guess no one had any ideas. It's been another week and we're finally down to just 2-3 nursing sessions a day, it was just a lot of tears to get here. And I'm still having to be way more entertaining than I want most days, but oh well, maybe it'll easy up some more in the next few weeks.
