Breastfeeding at 4yo
So, i am not one to judge but i was put in a position where i couldn’t explain properly something to my toddler.
To put you in the picture, i take my daughter to this baby class since she was a couple weeks, now she is 4 and we are still going until she start school in September. The thing is there’s this boy in class with us who is the same age as her but who was still breastfeed in front of us. I never actually cared, it was their business, she can breastfeed him until he is 18 if she wants 🤷🏻♀️
But my daughter started asking questions about it, why is he still having milk like a baby, or is it normal to drink mummy’s milk and if she can have some…i didn’t know how to phrase my answer as first of all i was worried she would ask or point out he was a baby in front of them, and i also don’t want her to think it is very common to keep breastfeeding even when you are going to “big school”
How would you handled this situation? xx
“Cry it out”
The idea of letting my baby (6 months old, now) cry-it-out is keeping me up, tonight. Every doctor’s appointment, the doctors suggest that method and make me feel like I’m not doing a good enough job with my baby because he wakes up every 4-5 hours (rarely 3 hours) in the night. Really he wakes up just one time in the night, technically. Thinking about him getting red-faced, tears and snot streaming, him screaming- not understanding what’s going on, until he’s too stressed makes me sick to my stomach. But apparently I’m doing him and me an injustice by not sleep training? I just don’t know what to do.