Weaning : present participle of wean (Verb)

Elizabeth: 11 months 

The time has come, the time to wean. A few weeks ago, Elizabeth turned 1 and I had already begun to wean her then. Bean actually started to do it herself. For those of you who don't know, when I say wean, I mean wean from my boobz. Not from a bottle, pacifier, or anything else. Bean never did take a bottle or anything other than my boob; making it really difficult for me to do anything for myself.

I've got a lot of crap from other people about nursing this long. It really disappoints me that people can be so cruel and hateful towards something that is so natural and meant to be. I feel that people who aren't nursing, don't truly understand how hard it is to just stop nursing cold turkey. Elizabeth and I have been gradually taking a feeding out for a few weeks now and she's slowly but surly, moved onto solid foods. I still can't get her to drink much of anything unless it's water. She also hates anything pureed. We now only nurse at night and bedtime which is a huge accomplishment for both me and Bean. Since we've been gradually doing this, it's been easier on myself as well. My warlocks haven't become engorged and sore with milk as much as I feared.

At Elizabeth's 1 year old check up, a day before her birthday, I mentioned to the doctor that I was still nursing but had planned on starting to wean and blah blah blah. Before I could finish my sentence, he had replied with " That is just fine that you're still nursing. Although if your still nursing at age 5, it might be a little embarrassing for Elizabeth."  It really bothers me that just because I'm nursing my daughter at age 1, most people are quick to assume I'm going to do it until shes 5! He wasn't the first one to assume that! She is barely a toddler at this point. Again, I'm just so sad people can be so weirded out over nursing.

Bean climbing over her bean bag

Anyways, Elizabeth is thriving and almost walking completely now. Her record is 6 steps!

As you can see in the picture to your right, I can now put her hair in little piggy tails!

I had made a little play area in the living room for her and instead of buying baby gates to gate her off with, I used bean bags as she couldn't climb over them. That didn't last long. She is now a free roaming 1 year old!