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Does weaning affect mood?

post #1 of 5
Thread Starter 
My son is two and two weeks and he is showing less and less interest. He has never been a big fan of nursing, long painful story. Anyway, he has only fed in the dark for almost a year now. If he can see, he says yuck, and cried any time I asked several times. I got the hint, he wasn't interested, so it became just the morning, before nap and before bed.

Now even those times are short, if at all. He makes a noise like he is frustrated and grabs his blanky instead. He always took to the blanky, not the breast (sucks his thumb). That's part of the long, heartbreaking story.

My mood recently has been awful, very easily angered and frustrated almost constantly. This full moon was particularly bad, even friends and family were a mess with people in and out of hospital and all kinds of stresses. I may be under too much stress, but then I thought it might be a weaning thing. I know he isn't taking as much milk, maybe my hormones are affected?

Thanks for any help. I'm really hoping I can blame how I feel on hormones... otherwise I really need some time out because I am not an effective human being at the moment.
post #2 of 5
Weaning sure can make a difference in mood. My guess is a combination of stress and weaning. Any way you can take a couple of mini breaks for you this weekend?
post #3 of 5
I felt hormonal and depressed for a while during and after weaning.

I hope you feel better soon
post #4 of 5
Thread Starter 
Thanks. I feel all over the place at the moment.
post #5 of 5
Nursing stimulates the production and release of many feel-good hormones, including oxytocin "the love hormone." Weaning means suddenly a lot less of the feel-good substances flowing.
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