Final journey

I have officially ended my breastfeeding journey after 23 months of going strong. This has been my longest breastfeeding journey out of all my children. Im going to end with telling everyone to stay encouraged and continue giving your baby this liquid gold till you can’t anymore!

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Well done you as I can say it is not an easy journey! We push and press on - thanks for the encouragement 🤗🎉

Weldone and congratulations 👏🎉 you did a great job 👍 thanks for the encouragement 😊 I'll keep pushing as my little one still loves and enjoys it so much.

Any advice on how to make it that long? Especially once they’re on solids and/or sleeping through the night.

It depends child by child. What I did was offer each time my child wants it. More like a child lead type of environment.

Amazing! I’m entering month 18 with my first. Hoping to get to 24 which I think my LO will love. Not sure how to approach weaning but we’ll figure it out. Congrats on 23 months!

Ahhh well done mama! Our journey ended a few weeks ago too at 22 months (I was deficient in folic acid and just found out I was pregnant again so didn't want any more nutrients being sapped from me 😆). My daughter had been down to just one short feed before bedtime for quite some time anyway and it was surprisingly smooth for both of us to stop 🥹

Well done you! My daughter just self weaned too, just before her 4th birthday. It’s a very bitter sweet moment but a lovely end to the journey.

Well done!! 👏

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I think Motherhood has made me more bitter than I realized…

This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.

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Been together more than 10 years, but it's been a while since he even seemed remotely interested in me getting on my knees, or vice versa so to speak. I think it was once last year. Must be something I am doing wrong 🤔. Generally everything else in that department is great and we have two young kids with no extra support, so it's quite surprising we can't keep our hands off each other but may need to try new things. It's basically 2 positions each time with some foreplay.

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