Over at Code Name: Mama, Dionna has been running a series called Joys of Breastfeeding Past Infancy, and I have so enjoyed hearing the perspectives of others on their extended breastfeeding/full-term breastfeeding experiences have been like.
Reading through the thoughts in that series brings back fond memories for me of nursing my own girls past infancy. Dacey weaned right at two (when I was newly pregnant with AJ), and AJ weaned at twenty-one months. That remains sorta incredible to me, considering that before I had children, I was completely skeeved out by the thought of nursing a baby who had teeth! I just truly couldn't imagine it. It was hard enough to imagine what nursing a newborn would feel like - but a child? A walking, talking kid? Weird.
So what happened? How did I get from creeped out to nursing long past infancy?
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