My daughter turned 3! still nursing

[lnitti]

I wanted to to CLW. My goal was at least 3 and she just turned 3.
She only nurses before bed and has for a long time. She is a big girl, so I have never felt the need to push her to nurse more when she already obviously gets plenty of calories through the day.

But now she is 3 and I am having second thoughts. I want CLW, but it would be nice to be done soon. I don't like spending an hour every night trying to get her to sleep (and nursing). I hate that I am limited on what I can eat because of her allergies.

But I want her to be ready to quit, not me encouraging her.

Any thoughts? any reassurance that maybe she will be done soon and it would still be CLW?

[Viola]

My only thought is that if you wean her, you may still be spending an hour putting her to bed, but without nursing. Just my experience and that of many I've talked to.

My first daughter weaned somewhere around 3.5 to 4. By 3 she was still nursing strong, but by 3.5 she had cut down to just a few times. The big time was at bedtime and that was the last to go. I realized that when she woke up in the middle of the night, I always offered the breast. So I stopped doing that, just to see what would happen, and she didn't ask to nurse, she was content to go back to sleep while I was there. She ended up night weaning somewhere in her 3rd year, but would still wake up during the night and want me to come and lie with her. Then at 3 years 7 months, she felt like I didn't have any milk--she claimed she couldn't get any out--so she stopped asking to nurse on a daily basis, but would still nurse one every two weeks or so and then tapered off to nothing at 4, although she did nurse a few times months later, not ever getting any milk.

So I do think it's possible it may happen sooner than you think, although it might not. Not a lot of help, I know.