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My son is 3 in a week and I have been bfing twice a day for about 18 months. Â Upon wake up and at bedtime. Â
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The bedtime feed has been every other day or less for a couple of weeks, because we have taken a new family ritual of watching animal docos after dinner and he often falls asleep sitting on the couch. Â So I don't know if it is officially "child led weaning" as much as just happening. Â
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However! Â Both of us are an absolute WRECK. Â It only dawned on me today that this might be due to weaning so I did a google and found that even those who did gradual weaning like me had issues even if it was only one feed a day that they stopped giving. Â This has given me hope that my child has not turned into a total BAST*&D and I am not becoming a total B*&ch. Â
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I am crying, depressed, lost, tired, yelling (unusual for me, even when pregnant). Â My son must feel much the same because he is a tyrant, bless his yelling, demanding, tantruming cotton socks. Â He flips out at the smallest things. Â He is also VERY clingy, I can't even go to the bathroom, he starts screaming and crying and dh says he spends all his time away from me repeating "mama mama mama". Â
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Tell me I am right in my diagnosis. Â I don't know how much longer I can hang on before I start to push the weaning a little harder. Â I don't want to upset him so I won't push anything on him but I'm fairly sure I could make it happen without him noticing, sort of like how it is happening. Â Offering him a water when we wake, etc. Â DH thinks part of it is emotional, not just hormonal... that DS is seeing the end of it and has gotten clingy. Â Wouldn't DS ask for milk more often, if that was the case? Â DH also said to him the other night that one day he won't have milk anymore, just like daddy and DD, and he looked a little taken aback (I was cranky he said that to DS, could that have triggered this reaction?).
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Lastly, is there anything I can take that will help my hormones balance out... specifically the prolactin, oxytocin and other bfing hormones? Â I like maca, and take that when I remember so I should try that again... just wondering if there was something else because all a google returns is sage and other things that dry up the milk but nothing that helps this awful emotional turmoil.





