sigh. bittersweet, for sure. i'm not looking forward to weaning the little man, though i too hate leakage.

Well, congrats on 13 months! To tell you the truth, we quit at 18 months and it still felt totally strange and bad to be severing that link between me and the Smudge. He was eating solids, drinking soy/rice milk, etc, and we were only nursing once a day, but I found it really hard to give it up. I think it's a severing of a physical intimate connection between you and your child and a sign that they are growing up, and both are difficult to take.

Congratulations on making it 13 months.

Yeah, 13 months is great.

I'm glad you mentioned your husband, because that's the first thing I thought of when reading this.

I think it's funny that I'm the only one in my family that doesn't know what breastmilk tastes like.

Would you have Ebay call the Dragon when she has a chance? We stopped nursing last Christmas, at 27 months, and he STILL asks for it. It was totally my choice, not his, because I had to go on meds for a nasty bout of bronchitis. I was secretly a little grateful because I was so done. But he wasn't, and he's still sad about it, and thus I will go to my grave with a heavy load of guilt about that and, I'm sure, about a zillion other things I haven't even thought of yet.

Well, I'm sure you won't miss the biting, but that's awesome you went 13 months.

13 months is really good.

And I feel bad that I seem to be the only mom I know who didn't feel bad or sad about weaning the kids--I was actually really happy to be done with it. I stopped at 1 year with both of them because I was done, not because they were done. Both of them would have happily gone on for at least a few more months, I think.

ks - maybe you and I can get a place together since I also stopped nursing when I wanted to stop nursing - and I felt no guilt and no separation from my kids and no lack of snuggles or bond or sadness that they were growing up. I guess I'm heartless too. They're fine. I'm fine.

That said, I do want to recognize that HBD is feeling sad about it - nothing wrong with that either, just not how I felt.

Awww another milestone for Ebay. Kommish said it best bittersweet.

I understand how you feel, I think. M2 already weaned himself a couple of months ago, but I'm dreading weaning M1 and the time is coming soon.

Yea! 13 months is awesome. I think Girl Grey weaned at 15 months. I was sad, but it was also nice to have my independence again. Well, as much as you can with a kid, right?