I confess. I've been cheating.
It started with a small little promise and a few matter-of-fact statements.
I was done nursing.
Boo. Hoo.
But we went camping on Friday night in Oak Creek Canyon and Madison did terrible. Memories of our week long camping trip in Yosemite all over again. "Give her the boob," Michael cried after her third screaming fit. I whimpered, "but I got nuthin' left!" Desperate to get the screaming babe to stop for once and for all, I caved and offered up the most pathetic, one-minute serving of breast milk that I could. And let her chomp for as long as I could bear. Momma's you know that feeling of burning, toe-curling, cracked and bleeding feeling you get the first time you start nursing. Well it almost that intense. Almost.
I was so relieved when we came back. I could just let her cry it out in the crib. 8:30pm on the dot. Wah, wah, wah. Boom. She's out for 'da night. Dusting of the hands. That easy folks.
But why the long drawn out story? Well as I noticed today the - probably - very last nodule of milk left. It'll maybe last a day or two and then POOF. All gone. Bye bye. No more!
ARGH! Bye bye BOOBIES. Sniffle.
I never minded nursing. I nursed James until the end of 12 months. But Madison just kind of seemed like she was ready. She basically did it all on her own. But I cut her off. She wasn't interested in it for the nutrition and she played all the time. Which meant that I always felt over full and stuffed to the brim. Leaking all over like a 50 yr old faucet.
So the point is a) I'm sad my little girl is all growed up, b) My rack is dwindling and c) the title has nothing to do with this post.
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"I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la ..."
that was a really good essay. like you put thought and feeling into because you wanted to get an A.
Well A++
And my milk stayed on for over a year after weaning.
so......."don't nobody go nowhere".
(last sentence also has nothing to do with comment)
This is an awesome post. Very random but you summed up my feelings quite well when I stopped breast feeding! Hope everything is going well for you and your cute family!
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