So we are finally down to just one feeding a day. And I'm feeling sad about the inevitable. My baby will soon be weaned. It has happened smoothly and naturally. Jack hasn't seemed to notice or care much. He loves drinking whole milk out of his sippy cup now.
I plan to wean him completely by New Year's. We are traveling for the holidays so I thought the remaining feeding might give him some comfort during all the chaos. In truth, it's been giving his mama more comfort than him. I think I'm just desperately holding onto these last precious few weeks.
Don't get me wrong. I am thrilled at the thought of having my body back. I can drink a glass of wine. I can take cold medicine without worrying. But I'm sad sad sad about saying goodbye to this special time.

Well, I did it.
Jack is weaned.
Today, for the first time in 385 days, I am not breastfeeding my son.
I'm a little sad. But I know it's time. And he's totally fine with it. I gave him some whole milk this morning and he was good to go. Hopefully my body won't freak out on me or anything. I didn't bring my pump. But so far so good!

Well, I would say congrats on having your body back, but somehow I don't think that is really appropriate. I can remember when my body quit making milk when Ronald was just 5 1/2 months old, that I was so happy and so sad at the same time. I felt cheated because I didn't get to feed him breastmilk as long as I wanted (I tried the medicine and herbal remedies, nothing helped). I was happy though to not be lugging around a pump with me 24/7. I had to pump and feed Ronald by bottle because he went to NICU for the first 5 days of life; they gave him a bottle, and he would never latch on after that. It probably would have been alot more bittersweet if I was truly breastfeeding. So I'm sorry, I know that precious time will be missed and congratulations on the freedom!

April-mommy to Ronald-11 months old

Well, you will probably feel full and sore for about a week but it gets better. I just hand expressed some milk a couple of times and I was ok after that. It has been a little over a month since I weaned and I feel like I did before I got pregnant. Except that I now have very little, saggy boobs!

Ya know, it's been 48 hours since I last fed him and I feel fine. I am not engorged. Weird. Maybe b/c I had weaned him down to just one feeding so it's not too much of a shock to my system?
But I hear ya on the smaller boobs, April. I can kiss my C cup goodbye.

Kristi, hows it going with the weaning? I know it has been about a week and was just wondering.

Thanks for asking! It is going great. Jack loves his cow's milk and my body is fine. I'm a little sad about it. But we were both ready.

Question for those of you who weaned - do you still get an achy feeling when your LO cries? It's the strangest thing...

Just a heads up.... watch out for Post Partum Depression. With my first child, I suffered from some pretty serious mood swings and depression shortly after stopping BF. My husband and I were at a loss as to what could be wrong with me, but after some reading learned that post partum can wait until the breast feeding is finished to raise its ugly little head.