The closeness there is between you and your baby is hard to duplicate, but just keep in mind it’s not a sign of personal rejection, it’s a sign of your daughter’s growing independence, so hooray for her!

Unfortunately for me, I need to start getting my son use to taking the bottle since I’ll be going back to work. This is a nightmare though because he refuses the breastmilk from a bottle, when I leave him for a few hours to be babysat, he simply won’t eat… I’m not sure what’ll I’ll do,

I understand completely, my 11 month old has been self weaning and to my horror prefers formula to breast milk now. I thought I would be ready to wean at a year, but now that I have been doing it, I don’t want to let go, but since he is leading the way, I have to follow. Sigh….

My daughter started to self wean at 12 months as well. It was a very emotional and difficult process for me. I actually started to suffer from mild depression.

Following your daughter’s lead, in my opinion, is the best way to do it. It can still be very difficult on you emotionally, but at least you know that she was the one that initiated it! Remember though, babies can be fickle, so you have to decide how you want to approach weaning. Although she is showing you NO today doesn’t mean she will tomorrow and this can be very difficult.

As an aside…my hubby fell down the stairs the first night that I said I wasn’t going to breastfeed my daughter during the night. He was carrying my daughter to get a bottle at 4am, they fell down the stairs–she was fine and he broke his ankle. Having to care for him snapped me out the depression pretty quick

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