Self weaning at 7 months, is this possible?
Trying to get my head around babies self weaning as my mum said I self weaned at 7 months. ( I am her second child, she bf my brother until 18 months)
My daughter is currently 10 months and has not once refused the boob, I really cannot imagine her refusing anytime soon, she feeds as much as when she was 6 months and she eats so many solids too!
My MIL also said she weaned her daughter (also second child) at 7 months and that her last feed was ‘selfishly’ for herself at that point.
I’m so confused about this, do you think we genuinely weaned ourselves at 7 months or was there pressure at that time in the early 90s to not bf for too long? Even now it feels like there’s an invisible boundary of 6 months and people start getting weird that you’re “ still breastfeeding”.
I am thinking about this a lot as I’m feeling some external pressures about ending my bf journey and I’m not ready and I know my baby definitely isn’t.