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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 612937" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I am guessing she is now over a year old not the 6 mos in the profile. What do your instincts say about nursing? I know a lot of docs who are very against nursing after some point between 9 mos and a year but I don't really see why. If it works for you and her then do what your instincts tell you is right. I was different with each child because each child had different ideas on the subect. Wiz lost interest around 13 mos because he got more interested in regular food. Jess was done long before I was, and went to a bottle totally by 4 or 5 months. She went on cereal by 3 mos because she was just hungry. She was taking and wanting and needing 10 oz at 6 weeks. The doctor told me I could not be producing that much and she wasn't eating that much. I was going back to work and had to get her used to a bottle and she would cry and scream if you gave her less. I was pumping for daycare and easily producing 10 oz at a time with some left over. She tried a bottle and it didn't take an hour to fill her belly so she was pretty well done nursing by her choice except for at bedtime and then she was done with bedtime nursing a few months later. With thank you I needed to take some medications when he was five months and it was safe to nurse and take the medication but he didn't appreciate the taste change. So he went to formula too.</p><p></p><p>If it is right for the child and for you, go ahead and wean. If your gut says otherwise, follow your gut. I would limit daytime nursing to after she has eaten real food because at her stage in development, she needs real food to grow and develop properly. She may just not like baby food. Jess mostly hated it. She wanted what we ate, not jarred stuff or stuff that we mashed up. She did fine on mostly table foods and little baby food. It is the nutrients in food that Cherub is needing, and if she is able to learn to eat other foods she may lose interest in nursing and wean herself. I was homeschooling Wiz when thank you was little and got a whole new perspective on nursing from the homeschool moms. They fully supported nursing as long as it was right for mom and child, up to about age 3 or 4. Many of us stopped earlier because it was what was right for us, but more than a few nursed well past age 1 and up to as old as 4. The support of the group was really great, and fostered my belief that my instincts were more reliable than many of my doctor's ideas/beliefs were.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 612937, member: 1233"] I am guessing she is now over a year old not the 6 mos in the profile. What do your instincts say about nursing? I know a lot of docs who are very against nursing after some point between 9 mos and a year but I don't really see why. If it works for you and her then do what your instincts tell you is right. I was different with each child because each child had different ideas on the subect. Wiz lost interest around 13 mos because he got more interested in regular food. Jess was done long before I was, and went to a bottle totally by 4 or 5 months. She went on cereal by 3 mos because she was just hungry. She was taking and wanting and needing 10 oz at 6 weeks. The doctor told me I could not be producing that much and she wasn't eating that much. I was going back to work and had to get her used to a bottle and she would cry and scream if you gave her less. I was pumping for daycare and easily producing 10 oz at a time with some left over. She tried a bottle and it didn't take an hour to fill her belly so she was pretty well done nursing by her choice except for at bedtime and then she was done with bedtime nursing a few months later. With thank you I needed to take some medications when he was five months and it was safe to nurse and take the medication but he didn't appreciate the taste change. So he went to formula too. If it is right for the child and for you, go ahead and wean. If your gut says otherwise, follow your gut. I would limit daytime nursing to after she has eaten real food because at her stage in development, she needs real food to grow and develop properly. She may just not like baby food. Jess mostly hated it. She wanted what we ate, not jarred stuff or stuff that we mashed up. She did fine on mostly table foods and little baby food. It is the nutrients in food that Cherub is needing, and if she is able to learn to eat other foods she may lose interest in nursing and wean herself. I was homeschooling Wiz when thank you was little and got a whole new perspective on nursing from the homeschool moms. They fully supported nursing as long as it was right for mom and child, up to about age 3 or 4. Many of us stopped earlier because it was what was right for us, but more than a few nursed well past age 1 and up to as old as 4. The support of the group was really great, and fostered my belief that my instincts were more reliable than many of my doctor's ideas/beliefs were. [/QUOTE]
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