We’ve been making the most of the beautiful weather with trips to the beach & picnics in the park after work

Buh bye boobie

We made it! 2 Years and 1 day from your birth and we’ve stopped the magical boobie!

We’ve had it all, the horrendous painful, sometimes bleeding, nips during the first week. The 6 week growth spurt which left me trapped on the sofa with you attached to me all day while we snoozed & watched 5 series of Greys Anatomy. The severe mastitis after a hen party weekend when you were 11 weeks old (poor daddy drove 6 hours with you screaming in the back to come save me from the misery I was in!).
The battle with the bottle, any bottle, all bottles, the cost of trying every kind of
bottle & teat in the world ever invented. The magical summer spent outside everyday feeding you anywhere & everywhere. Our first trip abroad as a family and hassle free plane journeys and welcoming Italians happy to see a mother feeding her child.
We made it through the return to work, my furtive visits to the shower room to express, the negative remarks from colleagues and trips away where by breast pump was the first item slung in the suitcase.
We had a slight blip at 18 months after I returned from Hong Kong and I thought that it was time to quit. You had other ideas so we ploughed on ahead through Christmas. We dodged all the winter colds & flu and I managed to continue with my cake diet thanks to the amount of milk I was producing!
But now it’s time. You sleep through the night and Daddy gets the opportunity to take you to bed. I get cuddles that are just cuddles and everyone seems happy. Part of me will always miss that special time we had together but I know we’ll make up for it in other ways.

Napping after the last feed, 26th Feb 2012