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Weened…Finally!

“Weened?” you ask. “Who could she be weening?  She had a baby almost two years ago!”

I know! I know!  It is terrible that I am just now officially weening Miller.  I tried to do it this past February when I went out of town for five days, but when I got back he went right back to it.  I tried again this summer when I left for three days, but no such luck!  I even let him cry a few times before bed but he just screamed for twenty minutes.  I felt too bad for him and couldn’t go through with it.

I really continued to breast feed out of convenience.  It is so easy to get him to go to sleep when he nurses.  He just settles down and knows that it is time for bed.  If he wakes up in the middle of the night I would let him nurse for a minute or two and then he dove right back into his crib.  Well, not anymore.  I put him down for his nap at my mom’s the other day and he didn’t even ask for it.  That night before bed he asked for it, he calls it “night-night”, but I said, “No.  Night-night is all done.”  He took it like a man and went to bed.  Of course, he still asks for it and pitched a total fit last night, but he is getting the picture.  It has been two days now and I can tell that it is going to stick.

Finally!  My body is all mine again…