no more nursing
as of about a week ago, it seems we have officially stopped nursing - egon is a fully weaned child! haha! it had been only morning and evening for a long time, and then just once a day at bedtime for a good few months… and it has been pretty brief lately and felt like totally a comfort thing rather than egon actually getting a significant amount of milk that way. he’s been drinking cows milk with increasing enjoyment for months now during the day. so we starting having arsenio put him to bed every other night once we discovered that he could do so without egon having hysterics, and very quickly egon stopped asking me to nurse on the days when i put him to bed. so it’s over - 22 months of nursing. i can’t say i’m very sad - it feels fitting that he should gain this new independence in the time leading up to his second birthday. and he’s getting mighty big to be lying in my lap! of course my little boy is growing up, and each new milestone brings a twinge of sadness along with excitement, but i feel proud of us for nursing as long as we have done. i’ll never forget the awe i had of the way my body provided nourishment for his for so long - or the feeling of the connection that we shared.
