My sweet & sassy girl. Mostly sassy, lately. If you have been following along you may remember me boldly stating my intention of weaning the baby, here. Well, I failed. Miserably. I think after successfully weaning 8 children, I suffered from a case of overconfidence. I have now been cured by the blue-eyed baby troll.
Sure, my other babies stayed up at night and threw fits, too.
But…
Baby Hazel throws complete conniptions, screaming one steady high pitch for hours without ceasing until she is given what she wants. She doesn’t want to quit. I told her it’s an addiction and she has a big problem, but she denies it.
I have my reasons for wanting to be done with it. One being her full set of razor sharp teeth. The girls eats regular food like a teenage boy so I know she is using me. I’m just a big, frizzy haired pacifier.
SO…I am open to suggestions. What worked for you? Any tricks you would like to share? I sure would appreciate them.
A photo taken in the toy closet while trying to distract Hazel from breastmilk. Here I am playing with my manual focus. I realize now that my lens was broken, not my auto focus. I was wondering how in the world it was worthwhile to twirl the lens 170 times to manual focus. I’m excited to try it again once it gets out of the shop.
OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I saw your post and couldn’t open it fast enough! I thought you were going to tell me how to do it. I remember Viloet just going to your MOMs and then coming home weaned. UUUGGG! Ronnie won’t quit either he is 20 months. He is now in our bed. UUUGGG! HELP!
thats how avoni was…but i don’t wish the cure on anyone-after a week of her getting that oral herpes and being hospitalized she was weaned.
I tried several to wean her/ nothing worked. good luck darlin. I giggle that you’ve met your match =)
ahh hazel!
My baby is just slightly older than yours. She got weaned at about 14 months. Teeth was a big issue for us too. I’m not quite sure how we got through it. She wasn’t willing to give it up either. Of course, now, she seems like she barely has memory of it (only 2 months later). I first cut back to night feedings only. Of course, I’ve heard the night feedings are the hardest to break. I agree that they are right. The only advice I have is to try to let someone else try to get her to sleep. I know you probably already have a good idea about this, but it seems like the longer you wait, the harder time she might have. I am not opposed to extended BF’ing, just trying to help you out. I hope all goes much smoother than you think it might.
It sounds like sending her to your mom’s might be the plan. (Or putting something yucky tasting on your feeding apparatus 😉
I actually never had this problem, but want to hear an update.
oh! weaning can be trying for sure..wish you the best with that! lol lucky you having a camera! wish i would have got one for christmas but this nasty recesion is taking all the fun outta that kind of thing..lol take care!
I just have to tell you how lucky you are 🙂 Your family is beautiful!!! I am a mother of 5, and wonder how you got so lucky as to have 9. I cant talk my husband into a 6th {yet} 🙁
Love to read your blog. Good luck on weaning baby girl… my youngest is 2.5 yrs and still has a bottle 😉
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My little guy was 22 months only nursing at night but my others had been weaned at a year or so. We went to Hawaii to visit family and because of the time difference (6 hours) and the different surroundings he was so exhausted when it was time to go to bed that he just dove into bed with his blankets. We were there for almost two weeks and he had forgotten all about it by the time we came home. Go to Hawaii or somewhere out of the usual routine! It is nice to get away!
Goodluck! With my girl i just cut out a feed, i was feeding her 3 times a day at 15 months. The hardest one to stop was the night feed just before bed. She didnt have a pacifer at all so i was it! So really know words of wisdom here as it went pretty smoothly for me. My son decided from day one he preferred the bottle to the breast – i just couldnt get him to breastfeed. All the best! and Happy New Year!
Haha..let me know when you figure it out cuz I’m in the same boat..sigh…I thought about trying hot sauce..or nail bite stuff..hehe..ain’t sure..sorry sister of the demanding 16 month old breastfeeding freaks…geeeeez!
Start sucking on hers and tell her you’ll stop when she stops. Heck, I don’t know. I’m the wrong person to give advice. Ev still dangles on mine.
Good luck with it! My sister put Vicks on her nipples then told her son that he couldn’t nurse anymore because she had medicine on. He didn’t believe her until he got a good whiff then would have nothing more to do with it after a few days of that.
Oh boy… no I don’t have any suggestions.. sorry.. Brandt actually doesn’t nurse very much during the day anymore, but night is another story..
I as well have 9. My little one is as sassy as your Hazel. She has allowed us to go to morning feedings only. And, to be honest, I only allow it so that I might sleep an hour longer. My sweet toddler is 18 months old in January. The only cure I have ever found is…. they out grow it ( all my others before this age) or, they get sick, and the hospital/ illness interferes. I will just be happy knowing that she is healthy and wants her mommy for now.
I just happened on your blog through Dear Lillie. My second child was 15 months and didn’t want to give up nursing, but I wanted to.
He was a strong willed child, so… I slept in the basement for 3 nights in a row while my husband dealt with his tantrums of not getting what he wanted. He was weaned after that!!!
No advice. Just had my fifth in November and we will be lucky if I can nurse even a few more weeks.. sad for that . But just didn’t have the supply this time so I am officially just the appetizers. I did have one that would take nothing but me for 10 months which made date night a bit difficult so I wish you luck!
I took off and went to cancun for a week leaving my sone home with my husband. When I came back, it was over.
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I totally understand what you are going through. I was nursing my 1st for 18 months and I have to stop cos I pregnant for my 2 nd. I just be strong and confident. I told him that I have to stop because of the baby. I don’t know he will undretand or not but I know that he feel my confident. He feel that I can’t give him anymore. I just wanna tell you that you have too have be confidence and strong. They feel it. Baby smart enough. Btw your girl so adorable. Good luck
Kay
I just have to come in for an update on my last post above.. not only did we have #6, we are expecting #7 in just a few months. 🙂 Children are such a blessing from the Lord. ♥