DS is three years and three months old, and I'm ready to wean. He's aaalmost ready to wean. He nurses once or twice a day, usually at bedtime or first thing in the morning, for about four minutes. Most nights he crawls into my bed and tries to get a drink, but I've been pretty firm with the no overnight nursing.
In the last month, we've no longer been nursing to sleep. Our routine is that we get in bed, read some books, nurse for a couple minutes, cuddle for a minute and then I get out of bed and he goes to sleep on his own. It's been pretty smooth.
My community is really supportive of extended nursing, and it's not that I want to wean out of social pressure or anything. I just feel done. And I feel a little guilty for feeling done. But I do feel done. I'm sure a lot of you know what I mean.
When I was pregnant, I figured I'd shoot for a year and see what happened after that. Then at a year, I realized there was no way either one of us were ready to wean, and I was more inclined to do a child-led weaning. By the time he was three, I was definitely starting to feel like it might be time. We've been talking about how big boys don't nurse, and talking about which of his friends do and don't nurse. His very best friend still nurses (we go to a pretty crunchy pre-school) but other friends don't nurse. But DS is definitely of the opinion that he's not too big to nurse. :)
Would it be better to tell his that it's time for him to wean? One thing I've been thinking of doing is just telling him that there's no more milk in the boobies, but we can still cuddle. Is that bad? It's basically a lie. I don't have a ton of milk left, but there is still some. But it seems like it might be the easiest and gentlest way.
He's going camping overnight with his dad, godfather and dad's girlfriend on Saturday night. It seems like a good time to do it.
