Waking Up Parties
Attachment Parenting, Peaceful Motherhood, Siblings, Sleep, Tandem Nursing Add commentsYes, we are still tandem nursing and some nights like tonight, the kids literally take turns waking and by morning I would have barely slept at all.
I’m criticised a lot for this, especially in a society where most women don’t breastfeed past a month. Wolf gets the brunt of it for still nursing at 3+.
But as I read other blogs where moms practice peaceful parenting (well more peaceful than me), self-weaning is the natural way to go.
Critics had similar reservations about his potty training, even commenting he would be in diapers till he was 10. But one day he just decided he was ready for the toilet himself and he never looked back.
I believe for nursing it will be the same.
For now I will enjoy our nursing relationship as long as he cares to continue, knowing one day he won’t need to curl up in my arms to nurse anymore.
It is easy to be pensive and philosophical this late at night. The brain practically demands it.
Wrote NAK.
Mephala is a strange and rather interesting 
April 14th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Yeah… I love cuddle time. To think one day he won’t want it any more…
April 15th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Yeah that’s what I remind myself when I reach the end of my tether. It’s a good philosophy of life anyhow. Cherish everything because life is so transient and our most precious things – our children – grow up too fast.