Weaning Woes!

When the beautician told me last Saturday that I was the biggest transformation she had made in a long time, I figured I needed to really examine my life. After making excuses for the reason I hadn't cut my hair for 8 1/2 months, gotten a pedicure in 7, been clothes shopping in over 2 years, or been out with my husband alone but twice in 8 1/2 months it all came back to the intense dedication I have put towards breastfeeding Price. Apparently when I put my mind to something that is as time consuming as breastfeeding I can become quite a committed individual.

Don't get me wrong, I have thoroughly enjoyed the emotional bond Price and I have built trough being his primary source of nurishment, but I have to stop fooling myself. Chalk it up to inexperience, but unlike wonderful friends of mine who are also mothers, I have not been great at multitasking breastfeeding and life. I say life because I can't think of a better word for the neglection I have had towards anything personally satisfying or emotionally rewarding for myself, my husband, or my SON for that matter!

Needless to say, Price and I both are going through what I have entitled "weaning woes". I have decided to begin weaning Price from "the boob" as Tyler has so appropriately named it, and Price is weaning me from...well...the downward spiral I was letting myself fall in to. Now understand I am ABSOLUTELY NOT blaming Price for any of this, it is completely MY FAULT here. In fact I believe Price has been trying to wean me for a long time, I just haven't been paying much attention to his signs. You'd think his mastery of table eating and bottle taking since he was 4 months old would have tipped me off to begin learning how to relax a little about HAVING to breastfeed him. Not so much.

Four months later, 8 FULL months of giving my baby the best thing for him, I have decided, in order to wean myself I have to wean him. I think it will be better for us both in the long run. And if the past week has been any indication of how we will both deal with our weanings, things are looking up already. Steady as we go though, we're definitely employing the "gradual weaning" method.(He's such a good baby!)