Why did no one tell me how hard it is to stop breastfeeding"
?Baboo! Baboo!? my daughter cried, reaching her open hands toward my breasts like a teen boy who wanted to honk them.
At sixteen months, she could toddle, she could babble, she could eat solid foods and drink milk from a cup, but she still wanted to breastfeed. And I wanted to stop.
Every discussion I ever heard about breastfeeding revolved around stuff like ?Are you breastfeeding",? whether breast is really best (fed is best, by the way), the health benefits of breastfeeding, the dangers of not doing it and the mental health benefits and problems of breastfeeding.
Once in a while you might hear someone talk about how difficult breastfeeding is, what a pain in the neck pumping can be and how hard it is to reach the one-year mark recommended by pediatricians. But not once?not when I decided to breastfeed, despite my mediocre supply, my tongue-tied toddler, my sleepless nights?did anyone tell me how impossible it would be to stop.
I wanted to stop breastfeeding so I could consider getting pregnant again, so I could resume running and so I could let someone else (my husband) enjoy my breasts again.
Before I stopped the nursing train, I asked around for tips from friends and family. But no one was much help.
?Oh, my son just lost interest at about six months,? said my closest mom friend?you know the type for whom everything seems to come easy: she was never engorged or had supply problems, her son falls asleep in ten seconds flat, etc. I wish I had...
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