Archive for October, 2010

At 3.5 years old I think Desmond has weaned

Monday, October 4th, 2010

So Desmond hasn’t nursed for over a week now! So I am thinking he might be officially weaned, at 3 and 1/2 years old, okay technically he isn’t 3 1/2 till tomorrow, but I am counting it at 3 1/2. He hasn’t been nursing much since I learned I was pregnant, well actually he has been restricted to twice a day since May, but once I found out I was pregnant he was restricted even more, because my breasts have hurt and nursing 2 children while pregnant really wasn’t helping that. In the past month or so he’s been down to nursing for 10 seconds in the morning a couple of times a week. Which hasn’t been to bad, but since I did want to wean him by the time the new baby came, I’ll admit I can tandem, but I don’t think I can tandem with 3, this really is a good time for him to stop.

It is a bit bittersweet though because he is my first baby, and now he isn’t nursing anymore and soon he’ll be potty trained (please soon, pretty please soon!), and he already seemed so grown up going to preschool this fall.

I am thrilled to have made it 3.5 year though, my original thought was I’d make it to 1 hopefully. I think it made it a bit past that. I did start with small steps when we started nursing, once he was born and in my arms, 5 hours after my c-section, we tried nursing and he had a bit of trouble, but he finally latched within the 24 hours that the hospital gives you before they start supplementing. Once I got 2 of the lactation consultants in to help me with his latch, my goal was to hit 6 weeks, I figured if I made it to 6 weeks then I could probably make it to 3 months. Once I made it to 3 months then my goal to hit was 6 months and then 1 year. Once I hit a year I decided to just go with the flow, he loved nursing and seemed to need it, and I had no reason to stop. So we kept nursing, through my pregnancy with Eloise and now through Eloise’s first 18 months. I am really happy about how easy nursing him ended up being and that I didn’t need to stop before he was ready to.

So I now only have one nursling, well at least for another 6 months when I’ll have 2 again! Him weaning just makes him seem so grown up, now if only he would potty train! Changing his diaper is one thing I am so not going to miss once he finally is potty trained!

And here are the only 2 nursing pictures I think I have of him. It is really weird to think we have hit this milestone and that he is fully weaned.