First day not breastfeeding

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I’m having mixed feelings about my first day not breastfeeding. My daughter is 15 months old and I always nurse her to sleep for naps and bedtime. Today she took her nap in the car so I didn’t nurse her then. My husband, for the first time ever, put her to bed tonight and she fell right asleep without me. I thought he was just getting her ready until I saw the monitor and she was laying in bed already. I don’t know how to feel about it, because on one hand I’m happy she doesn’t need me to nurse her to bed forever. We have baby #2 coming in 6 weeks and I’m not sure how I’ll handle breastfeeding the two of them. But on the other hand, it makes me kinda sad that I didn’t nurse her at all today. It wasn’t intentional… and I do enjoy nursing her. My husband was just trying to do me a favor (he was very proud of himself that she fell asleep) so I’m happy he’s happy, and happy that maybe now we can take turns doing bedtime… but I don’t know. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t cry when I saw her so peacefully falling asleep without me.

Then I remember last night when I was pretty sure she was trying to bite one nipple off while attempting to rip the other one off simultaneously. Then I’m not so sad lol.

Posted Aug 7, 2025, 1:03 AM UTC

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