Still nursing my 3.5 dd - feeling like I am being drained of my life-force sometimes lately. Not how I have always felt about breastfeeding - so I have limited us to "boobies in bed" - which pans out as going to bed in the middle of the day, nursing for 45 minutes sometimes more, and then she pops up fresh as a daisy and I am drained and cranky. This can happen multiple times a day - each time I think she might be ready for a nap and will drop off to sleep, but that's actually only happening every ten days or so. We co-sleep and she is nightweaned - however, we nurse to sleep and she is allowed to nurse again when the sun comes up, which she takes very seriously. So nursing can commence in the morning and go on and on, which I do not sleep through unfortunately, with switching breasts and nipple-pinching and the whole nine yards. Lately I am feeling resentful and even somewhat angry about the whole deal. DH says "just wean her!" but I know he is not considering what that even means, to her or to me, especially at the rate we are currently going. Also, he has no suggestions as to how that should happen, just that we should stop. So I'm trying not to be annoyed with him as well, but I am really thinking something has to change around here. Anyone have any ideas for how to make nursing a 3.5 yo more workable/reasonable/bearable - ideas for reasonable limit-setting, maybe? "Boobies in bed" seems to be backfiring on me, and I don't want to be a burnt-out angry person. I believe in breastfeeding, my daughter is really robust and healthy and I know our nursing relationship has a lot to do with it. I'm pro-breastfeeding all the way, but I can't deny that I'm feeling out of control and somewhat desperate at the moment. Maybe that's just something I need to notice and accept?
TIA
TIA
