....not with the Pediatrician, she's pro-bf and very supportive. But I had a great conversation with one of the nurses today.
She has a babe who is 18 months old, and when she came into the room during my dd's 3 year well-child appointment, she asked me, "You nursed both your girls a long time right?" I told her, yes, dd2 is still nursing a couple times a day most days now (some days nothing, other days three times a day)....
This nurse talked me to last spring about weaning and how it happened, and I reassured her, just nurse on demand and your baby will wean when baby is ready. But, she's getting pressure again/still about why her baby is still nursing. She said, she's nursing wherever and whenever she wants, she doesn't care what people say, and she doesn't want to quit right now, but she's dreading when she does have to wean (she weaned her oldest abruptly at 2 1/2 years). She'd been waiting to talk to me at this appointment about it again.
I told her that it's a relationship, she is doing the right thing by following her wee one's cues, that it seems like after 18 months, it's pretty soon after that that kids start dropping nursing sessions --- it sounds like the big thing for her is all the night nursing, since she works FT. And I told her that I know dd1 really relied on those night nursing sessions to reconnect with me when I was WOH.
She agreed on both those situations - very clear that she is enjoying nursing and not ready to end, but doesn't have much information or support about it.
So, I again recommended How Weaning Happens, by LLL. She said she'd get it (but we talked about it last time I was there and she hadn't gotten it yet) -- So, dh was running errands this afternoon and I sent over my copy of that book and of Mothering Your Nursing Toddler. With a little note that I'm not using my copies right now, I hope she finds them helpful, give me a call if she has questions, or when she's done with them.
Sooo.... There 'tis.
Hope she finds a way to either wean gently when the time comes, or to do CLW if she finds it compelling, but either way to continue to feel confident in what she's doing with her little one. I'm pretty sure I'll get the books back eventually, since I know where she works. 
Some year when we feel like we can afford it, I'd love to donate a LLL Library's worth of breastfeeding books to the local public library - with extra copies of How Weaning Happens.
She has a babe who is 18 months old, and when she came into the room during my dd's 3 year well-child appointment, she asked me, "You nursed both your girls a long time right?" I told her, yes, dd2 is still nursing a couple times a day most days now (some days nothing, other days three times a day)....
This nurse talked me to last spring about weaning and how it happened, and I reassured her, just nurse on demand and your baby will wean when baby is ready. But, she's getting pressure again/still about why her baby is still nursing. She said, she's nursing wherever and whenever she wants, she doesn't care what people say, and she doesn't want to quit right now, but she's dreading when she does have to wean (she weaned her oldest abruptly at 2 1/2 years). She'd been waiting to talk to me at this appointment about it again.
I told her that it's a relationship, she is doing the right thing by following her wee one's cues, that it seems like after 18 months, it's pretty soon after that that kids start dropping nursing sessions --- it sounds like the big thing for her is all the night nursing, since she works FT. And I told her that I know dd1 really relied on those night nursing sessions to reconnect with me when I was WOH.
She agreed on both those situations - very clear that she is enjoying nursing and not ready to end, but doesn't have much information or support about it.
So, I again recommended How Weaning Happens, by LLL. She said she'd get it (but we talked about it last time I was there and she hadn't gotten it yet) -- So, dh was running errands this afternoon and I sent over my copy of that book and of Mothering Your Nursing Toddler. With a little note that I'm not using my copies right now, I hope she finds them helpful, give me a call if she has questions, or when she's done with them.
Sooo.... There 'tis.
Hope she finds a way to either wean gently when the time comes, or to do CLW if she finds it compelling, but either way to continue to feel confident in what she's doing with her little one. I'm pretty sure I'll get the books back eventually, since I know where she works. Some year when we feel like we can afford it, I'd love to donate a LLL Library's worth of breastfeeding books to the local public library - with extra copies of How Weaning Happens.
