Feeling hopeless, crying my eyes out every night and can’t take this anymore…
My 2.5 year old was an incredibly difficult baby, awake 6,7…8 times a night for about a year. Things plateaued for a while and she was a lovely lovely child, ate well, slept through, so kind and gentle.
Fast forward to now, terrible 2’s doesn’t even cover it. She screams, hits, bites and throws things at me. All. Day. She doesn’t eat ANYTHING, not even her safe comfort foods anymore, she will not go to sleep. It’s taking 3 hours average to put her to bed. I’m eating dinner at 12-1am sobbing through my meal. This is all day, every night. I have gentle parented her, I have kindly disciplined her, firmly disciplined, ignored her, walked away and even gone against my biggest morals and given her a slap on the wrist when she punched me in the eye. I’m at my f*cking whits end and I’m just so depressed and overwhelmed. I genuinely am so patient with anyone and everything but dealing with this day in and day out is making me want to literally run away or in front of a bus.
Video below is after 2 hours of trying to put her to bed and stepping out for 5 mins to gather myself together.
Has anyone quit breastfeeding cold turkey?
Please none of these silly comments that it's detrimental, abusive or harmful for the child. Mums have their reason why they need to quit.
I'm ready to quit breastfeeding cold turkey, our son is almost 2 and I am currently almost 31 weeks pregnant, he has been ebf from the day he was born (yes he eats 3 meals a day). I just can't handle breastfeeding anymore, it's becoming overwhelming, overstimulating and difficult for many reasons. I know my milk has changed or gone and when he feeds now it is draining. He has a habit of nursing for 1 second, stretching the nipple then letting go and he repeats this continuously, he then will chew on the nipple (but without teeth if that makes sense) and it makes me itchy all over. Due to the change he now is waking in the night, when before he would nurse for his nap, then bedtime and sleep through. I tried the bandaid method and it doesn't seem to be working as he just cries and cries and I REFUSE to let him cry. My husband has tried to do sleep time but he won't sleep for my husband as he wants to nurse. He does have cows milk, water and squash, but doesn't want any of it when he wants to nurse. Any help would be appreciated... Again I said help, not unhelpful comments. Not everyone loves breastfeeding and I would love to have some sort of break before our 2nd is born. Photo to not get lost
