I have a 2 year old daughter that still breastfeeding. Currently, I´m studying and need more time for researching than taking care of my baby. I need urgent advice how to make my baby totally forget about breastfeed.
2007-05-03 00:48:20 · 16 answers · asked by mom 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
Sorry, I have no advice for you. I tried breastfeeding but always worried my daughter didn't get enough to eat so the boob never lasted with us. But I had to add my own comment. I knew a woman who was a pediatrician and she breastfed her son until he was 4 years old. So two years old is barely an outrageous age to still be breastfeeding.
However, you said you need more time to study than take care of your baby? Shouldn't that be the other way around? You should work your study time into your childs schedule. Maybe if the baby has to schedule time to eat, she won't want the boob so much. She may just start to prepare her own food.
2007-05-10 12:54:02 · answer #1 · answered by Sugar Booger 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Cut out one feeding a day per week. Replace this with a healthy snack and some cuddle time, like reading a book to your little one.
Do not say what she CANNOT have but rather focus on what she IS getting.
EDIT: Amazing how uneducated people are about breastfeeding. People need to stop giving advice about what they do not know. 2 years IS NOT too long to be breastfeeding. Leave this mother alone. She has done an amazing thing for her child, and I applaud her!
2007-05-03 07:52:39 · answer #2 · answered by mennyd 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
You need to do it gradually and it is hard but you just have to be strong and cut the feedings down week by week until you wean her completley. She will cry and it will be heartbreaking but we all have to do it at some point. Keep offering a cup and solids and comfort but just not the breast.
2007-05-11 02:40:36 · answer #3 · answered by KELLY 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am currently in the same position. I have an almost 2 year old who still loves the boobs. I desperately want to be finished with it. Not just because of ALL the negative commentators, but because I feel as though I am turning into a cow! Lately I try to distract her every time she says, "booby juice!" with chocolate milk or a game, etc. I am also having Daddy put her to bed. I feel as though discouraging it will initiate the weaning process. I hope it works for the both of us!
2007-05-05 00:33:49 · answer #4 · answered by ☼Pleasant☼ 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋
I know exactly how you feel. I couldn't stop breastfeeding my first child...didn't know how. I ended up going to just over 2 years...when he started to pull my top up in public and try to help himself. I just had to go 'cold turkey'. He asked for it for the first few days but soon got over it when I offered him milk in a bottle (thank god!). I couldn't believe how easy it was and wished I had have done it sooner as I was exhausted by this time. I did the same with my next 2 babies and it was even easier and I managed to stop at 14 and 15 months. My second was in daycare while I worked though so they did help me a lot with distracting him and bottle feeding him for me so when I picked him up he didn't want boob. My boobs would get huge, hard and sore for days and leak quite badly too but it all subsided within 10 days. You can also get medication to dry up your milk from the chemist. I never used it but I heard it is good.
I think the only thing that can really be done is distract your child with bottles/cups of milk and go cold turkey. It's worked for me 3 times so far!
2007-05-03 08:04:30 · answer #5 · answered by West Aussie Chick 5 · 3⤊ 5⤋
at 2 years old you should of stop that a year ago
most are off the bottle at a year and drinking from a sip cup
just stop and give them a cup in a nice way she/he will understand at 2 may not like it but will get the ideal
2007-05-10 14:11:51 · answer #6 · answered by sunshine 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I would slowly start to wean, starting with one feeding a day for several days. the last ones to break her from could be nap and bedtime. when its time to break those 2 (probably the hardest) if you cuddle or rock her, do it with a blanket over your breast. find her another object such as a blankie or teddy bear.
If you cannot do it this slowly I would just stop all of them except bedtime for a few days and then work on the bedtime one.
good luck
2007-05-03 13:13:32 · answer #7 · answered by jon jon's girl 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
If the child was younger I would say to wean her slowly, but at two years it is a bit silly to be breast feeding. She should have been put on at least a bottle( even if it is breast milk inside) six months or more ago. You need to cut cold turkey at this point or risk or risk serious issues with your child in the future.
2007-05-10 00:23:17 · answer #8 · answered by carlos 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
My sister had a simple problem. Her son was breastfeeding first at 2yrs old, and then she had a daughter that, didn't stop til she was 4yrs old. They generally stop on their own.
2007-05-09 13:28:08 · answer #9 · answered by TAMPABAYLADY 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I know you have to be kidding right now. Two years old and still breast feeding?? What does she do, walk up to you and point or just ask for a drink from mommy? Geez. Once the teeth are in you've gotta get them a cup.
2007-05-08 22:41:12 · answer #10 · answered by dianee 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋