Not a Single Drop

As of this past week Wesley is no longer nursing. My goal was to nurse him for a year, just as I had done with Xavier. Wes starting drinking whole milk in a sippy cup just before his first birthday and he loves it. So, once I new he was established on milk, I slowly weaned him over the course of about 6 weeks.

I am thrilled to have made it to a year and even more thrilled to say that Wesley has not had ONE DROP of formula. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, that I am not against formula. This was more about me achieving a goal that I had set for myself. Having so many struggles with nursing, and supplementing, during Xavier's first year, I really wanted to be able to exclusively breastfeed Wesley.

Nursing my second child was a completely different experience for me. I felt that I was armed with so much more knowledge, not to mention and an entire year of experience. It wasn't the blind leading the blind this time. I was able to help Wesley learn to nurse, be able to read his hunger clues better, trust my intuition, and just be more relaxed about the whole situation. It's not to say we didn't encounter any problems, but I knew how to respond to them.

It's pretty neat to think that for his first 6 months of life I completely sustained Wesley with no outside food source. That has to be one of my greater accomplishments.

And I'll get to do it all over again in just 5 short months - OY!!  (Is it really that soon???)