Dressing up

More photos of these looks on Flickr.

Conjugating

Xan has been doing a lot of fall downing and lie downing.

He's weaned

Two weeks ago, as I was brushing Xan's teeth before bed, I realized that I had forgotten to nurse him that night. I didn't want to have to rebrush his teeth so I decided to try to put him down without nursing him unless he asked. He didn't say anything.

I had been thinking about weaning him for a while and about a month ago, stopped feeding him at nap time, leaving just the bedtime feeding. So I decided to continue not offering and see where that led us. My preference was to stop breastfeeding, but if Xander felt strongly about continuing, I was willing to do so for a least several more months.

The next night he asked to nurse, so we did, but he hasn't asked at bedtime since then and I'm thinking he'd pretty much done. He's mentioned it once or twice when he woke up, but took no for an answer without a fuss.

Several people have asked how I feel about it and I'm mostly happy. I'll miss the cuddling, because Xan isn't and has never been a cuddler, but I get some of that while reading and I'm good at extorting hugs and kisses. More than that, I'm relieved to be done with all that sucking, which I've found uncomfortable and unpleasant since the beginning, much to my dismay. I had very much been looking forward to breastfeeding and was disappointed and even a little ashamed that I disliked it so much. Oh well, maybe it will be different next time around. Xan did have a rather aggressive latch.