Another week down and no yoga or breast feeding group. Best intentions but again didn’t manage to find the time. Where does the time go? I did manage to spend some time reading Mothering Your Nursing Toddler by Norma Jane Bumgarner. With the wee being on the “larger size” I wanted to find out about feeding bigger kids – the challenges and whatnot. I don’t know what I don’t know and this book kind’ve answers some of it. But the rest is more of the mother earth knitting crap. Do women really knit while nursing? Is this a nursing “thing” because there’s nothing else to do while nursing? If nothing else this book is worth checking out for the funny cartoons and mom stories. I think maybe I was looking for a book that gave more strategic advice. Like try this position and what to do when breastling becomes a war… useful stuff.

Here are my take aways –
1. We need to now figure out what we are calling this activity – asking if he “wants a boob” or “to be topped off” aren’t phrases I am going to be ok in public hearing parroted back. But not sure if we want nay nay’s, nummies, mumpys or nonny’s – we might not be breast nickname people but the wee may have other ideas. Also he may adopt our current reference to both Monster and the Gimp. Funny now and mortifying at the park or any other public place.
2. What he’s doing with his other hand is habit forming. I better pay attention NOW because if we manage to continue breast feeding he may be doing a lot more of it and I am not sure if we really want to have to feed everytime with a stuffy or something else in hand. What if it’s not handy?!
3. I was hoping for more information on weaning and what the signs are etc. But after 249 pages there were two chapters on weaning – extreme measures and less drastic approaches. Maybe we’ll just put researching this on the back burner.
This book ends on weaning but does have 6 pages on nursing past the age of 4. I don’t want to be a “judge-y” mom but I can not image doing that. We made it past 6 months and now hoping to make it to a year.
On to parenting books for this weekend – The Parent Backpack and Raising Parents Raising Kids.