Comments on: Good Advice for Gentle Weaning: ‘Don’t Offer, Don’t Refuse’ http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=2233 Connecting with our children for a more compassionate world. Mon, 13 May 2013 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Weaning and snuggles – The Milk Mama http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=2233&cpage=1#comment-574 Weaning and snuggles – The Milk Mama Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:54:12 +0000 http://theattachedfamily.com/membersonly/?p=2233#comment-574 [...]  So when I realized I was ready to stop, all I had to do was stop reminding him (also known as “Don’t Offer, Don’t Refuse.”) By his second birthday, he was going 4 nights, 5 nights without asking. Then, after our feeding on [...]

]]> By: The Slow Road to Weaning | Attachment Parenting International Blog http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=2233&cpage=1#comment-452 The Slow Road to Weaning | Attachment Parenting International Blog Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:55:42 +0000 http://theattachedfamily.com/membersonly/?p=2233#comment-452 [...] the relationship wasn’t working for me. I started with partial weaning, using techniques like “don’t offer, don’t refuse”. We worked together to find things to replace breastfeeding – both food and comfort measures. [...]

]]> By: Spowers http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=2233&cpage=1#comment-46 Spowers Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:26:36 +0000 http://theattachedfamily.com/membersonly/?p=2233#comment-46 My son is 3 and a half years old and I have been trying to sloowwly wean him for about the last 8 months to a year now. When he wants to nurse during the day I simply occupy him on somthing else or tell him we’ll nurse at naptime or bedtime.

I put him to sleep by nursing him, but he is able to go to sleep just fine without when he is away from me.

He would prefer to nurse all the time. I’ve had to set limits because I’d never get anything done during the day.

I have a friend of mine whose husband nursed until he was 8 years. I agree that my child should choose to stop when he is ready, but I see no sign of this at all and I can not see myself still nursing him when he is 8.

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