I had planned and hoped to nurse for 1 year, same as for little miss Haana. But these past 2 years have been different. With covid, I was able to stay at home in stead of return to work. Most technology work is now remote, so there was no return to office. So, in short, there was no big event that made nursing too inconvenient, so I just continued. Then, with covid vaccines, I figured the boy will get some protection through breast milk. Add to all that, with covid, there's been significant reduction in going out.
All of this made is more conducive to continue nursing.
But there was one more reason. Unlike little miss Haana who is a sound sleeper, little Bobby boy is a very light sleeper. And he's super active through the day, with constant non stop moving about. Doesn't give much of a chance for mumma to hug and kiss him. He's too busy for that showing him down. Haana was this way too, but then she would sleep like there's no tomorrow, and I would use my chance to hug and kiss her while she sleeps. No such luck with the boy, though. He would stand up in attention if he hears a creak of the door. So when can i just hold him and tell him what a wicked sweet thing he is.. And that he didn't need to be this sweet and lovely, that all his needs would've been meet even if he was less sweet, but then he decided to become just too sweet and lovely. And that he's so tiny and yet he knows and gets everything of interest to him, how?! And that he is the sweetest baby boy thing. When he's nursing was the time when I would have these one sided conversations with him. And I loved them immensely!!
So it was kind of hard to stop nursing for that reason. But he's close to 2 and I saw some signs that he was ready to move on. Here's to the most over rated sport - growing up!
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