Hellobee

"So, at just under 15 months, Liam was completely weaned. I wanted it to be a slow process, which it was, and I wanted him to be ready."

"That was the end of it. No interest in latching, no attempt to feed. My daughter had weaned herself in a day."

"As soon as I started supplementing, my body recognized quickly that demand was lower, and my supply continued to wither until we weaned completely within about a month."

"I remember reading in all of my research that when you allow a child to self-wean, it is very easy to forget the very last time because the transition is so gentle and silent. One day they nurse at bedtime, and that is the last time."

"I had this idea that babies were easy to wean, and you just give them cow’s milk and off they go. Why would I have that impression? Because that’s exactly what my twins did."

"I was so determined that E would be a 100% breastfed baby up until the age of 1. All the free classes that the hospital provided and all the current buzz in the parenting world made it seem like this was the only, best way. And it might be, for some. But it wasn’t for us."

"It seems so sudden, but in reality, the process started ever so gradually when Baby Y had his first taste of solids – good ol’ pureed carrots – just after Christmas."

"I started to almost panic that he was weaning before he was ready. But I quickly realized that he might be ready and really, I wasn’t. I was fighting it."

"Though I’d like to drop the daytime nursing sessions — especially since Olive starts daycare next month — I’m not ready to completely wean just yet. This is why I want to wean… and why I don’t."

"I know some women want to breastfeed for an extended period, but that was never an intention of mine. If you told me that I’d still be nursing at 26 months before I had Olive, I never would have believed you. "

"It happened completely by accident. The kids were home 2 weeks over Christmas, and I didn’t want to wean her when she’d be home with me all day, every day because I thought it’d be harder… on both of us."

"In the early months, 18 months old seemed like a really, really, really long time away. But as the months whizzed past and we neared a year, I knew that my 18 month goal was probably attainable."

"About two weeks ago, right around the time that Little Deer turned 18 months old, our breastfeeding relationship naturally came to an end."