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Aww.. I'm happy you're happy! Having to fight your baby to nurse isn't fun.
Don't remember my last session because it hasn't happened yet, but I'll be happy (a little sad) when it does!

Ugh no It happened so gradually at around 3 months and eventually I just stopped trying. I didn't think about it at the time but I don't remember our last nursing session at all and it actually makes me really sad that I don't. Granted, our nursing sessions at the time consisted of lots of screaming and crying and pulling off every 10 seconds so it wasn't necessarily a good experience but still..

awe. The thought of this is making me sad! I thought I would hate BFing, but I kinda love it!! LO is 3.5 months and I am going back to work soon and don't want to give up our time together! I will be pumping, but is not the same!

E hasn't weaned yet, but I hope his last nursing session is one of our 5am sessions. It's his one MOTN feeding, and I could probably drop it but I just...can't. During the day he's so go-go-go that he just does drive-by nursing (runs up, nurses for a few seconds on each side, runs off. Repeat in 5 minutes). But at 5am he's warm and sleepy and very cuddly. It's a good half hour session, and he snuggles in close (we side-nurse on the futon in his room) and I can love on him...stroke his hair, smell his shampoo, rub his back....sometimes he dozes off for a minute, and then wakes up and gives me the most adoring, sleepy look. When I finally pick him up to put him back in his crib he nuzzles into my neck. It's my absolute favorite time of day, and when he weans I want that to be my last memory of nursing him.

We switched to formula at 3 months. It was better for both of us but I felt so guilty. I nursed her one last time and sat on the floor next to her sleeping and just cried. Makes me a little sad now too

NICU day 3, she refused to take the boob no matter how many LC tried to get her to latch. I had to make the decision to pump in order to bottle feed her to get her to eat (and when that didn't work we fed her with a syringe.) I EP for 8 weeks and then switched to formula to keep my sanity.

Yep. DS at 13 months - I had to be put under for surgery and we stopped nursing the day before

DD is nearly 14 months and is all about nursing lately so it might be awhile...which I am okay with in case she is my last child.

@Running Elley: Same with us.

It happened around 3 weeks though...he just was taking so long to feed off of me, and it was easier to bottle feed, rock to sleep and then pump for the next feed. I don't remember our last breastfeed and that makes me pretty sad. It was just exhausting and I couldn't keep it up.

this thought has always made me teary. part of me wants to remember it, but part of me wishes it would be fuzzy so that I can let go easier. I'm a very, very emotional/sensitive person and I definitely hold onto things like that in my memory - and then think about them and get emotional over and over. haha. I feel like I would/will be less emotional over it if I can't remember as precisely.

I can't remember the real last session. Ours has been a very slow process but once I hit the middle of my pregnancy they stopped feeling like real nursing sessions. Even after she was pretty much weaned she still asked occasionally and sometimes we'd nurse but it wasn't the same so I don't remember when the last 'real' time was, but to an extent I'm kinda glad I didn't know it was the last time, I'd probably have been too emotional. I def remember and look back fondly on our time spent nursing though.

Yup! Friday, January 18, 2013, just shy of 21 months. He nursed like usually that day, but refused to nurse to sleep (which he always needed to do) and never asked for it again. He received frozen breastmilk until 2 weeks past his 2nd birthday.