My daughter LOVES the boob. It isn’t just something she enjoys, it is her passion 😆
I feel not ready to wean yet but think I will around 2.5. Roughly 6 months away. How?!
Recently discovered mama nous, thanks to this group. Love her music, it's so catchy and I feel her songs healing my inner child. But one song has me questioning some things for when my baby gets older. The lyrics are
>Stop is the magic power word!
>It makes us freeze so still
>And when you say stop to me
>I promise that I will
>Because stop is the magic power word
>We always listen to it
>And when someone says stop to you
>You promise that you'll do it
Which on the surface I love but then I think about how my son sometimes tells me, in his pre-word way coz he's 13.5 months old, that he's done with having his hair washed or done with cutting his nails. He doesn't like the shots at the doctor's office obviously, or sometimes when we're changing his diaper or brushing his teeth. There's all these things I imagine him saying stop to once he knows/says the word that I *have* to do. Obviously there's the "well sometimes mama and dada have to do things we don't want to do for health and hygiene" but how do we help him differentiate between us saying/doing that and protecting himself or respecting someone else saying stop? How do I tell him "when you say stop to me, I promise that I will. Stop is the magic power word, we always listen to it" but then turn around and say "actually I have to do this for your safety/health"?
I fully admit I'm probably overthinking this but I know *so* many people who were assaulted as children as well as I'm raising a boy and I need him to be aware of boundaries and bodily autonomy, especially as he gets older.
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Curious when others started night weaning. I'm not at that phase yet, but my 10 month old has BF every 2 hours- max 4 hours- every night since he was born. I guess you could say I'm desperate for sleep. When did you night wean? Did it improve baby's sleep? We also bedshare.
