Weaning a two-and-a-half-year old is HARD :(

[AmandaKDT]

I knew these were the kind of comments that were going to be put on here when she mentioned AP. Since when is nursing a 2 year old a bad thing? How is it helpful to her current situation to say so? FYI - UNICEF and the World Health Organization recommend that women breastfeed for two years or longer.

http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/index_24824.html

I commend you SevenwatersDaughter for doing it for so long, I would still be breastfeeding my 23 month old right now but for some circumstances I won't go into here, I weaned her around 18 months old. You definitely need to make some changes in order to wean your daughter, but I hope you don't take those negative comments to heart. This forum probably isn't the best place to mention AP, most here seem to consider it pretty evil.

For my family, with my youngest we co slept and then she slept in her crib in our bedroom for a little over a year. But with us it got to the point that the room sharing had to stop so that I could wean her from the night feedings. My husband also took a bigger role during the night time as it was pretty much impossible for me to get her back to sleep at night because of the breastfeeding. I never got her into the habit of needing to nurse in order to fall asleep, though I continued night feedings for a very long time. If you want to continue co sleeping you might need to find a different place to sleep for awhile and let your husband deal with night time. Don't feel guilty about it either, you've put your time in and now it is his turn! LOL. It was not an easy process, but we did it. And it did involve a good number of tears. I think you can do it gradually, nurse her one or two times during the day and then when night time comes she doesn't get anything but a glass of water from daddy.

My girls share a bedroom now, which makes both of them happy. I am guessing this is your only child, so that won't be an option for you.

I don't have alot of advice for you either, since your daughter is older than mine when I weaned. You may have better luck if you go to the Babycenter website and post on their breastfeeding forum or natural parenting forum.