The end of breastfeeding Tyler

[canadagirl]

     When I was pregnant with Tyler, I didn't really know what my goals were as far as breastfeeding. I've become much more educated about it since Tyler was born. I knew I wanted to try, I wanted to breastfeed Tyler. We had a rocky start. My milk was slow to come in, which wasn't a problem for us. But at about day 6 when my milk came in, my

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[canadagirl]

I never really knew where I saw it ending, I knew so little about breastfeeding when we started. I think the education and experience really made me want to let Tyler end it on his own terms, but that wasn't how I felt about it in the beginning. I remember when Chris and I would talk about BFing while I was pregnant he'd say not after 1 year. Then when that rolled around, we just couldn't envision weaning. It was too soon.

Ya, very rocky start. Despite 2 SILs BFing, I really had no one to talk to about it. No one to help me. And had never really seen much BFing at all. I'm not close enough to Chris' sister or to my brother's wife (geographically or personally) to turn to them for help. We'd be trying for half an hour at 3am, both Tyler and I crying trying to get him latched. There were times I'd just lay him on the bed in front of me while I screamed and cried and pulled myself together and tried again. I had a lot of damage on both nipples. The first time we used the shield I almost cried because it didn't hurt, and it was so much easier to get him latched. I honestly should have gone to a lactation consultant after my milk came in. But we worked it out, and had a long and happy go of it after!