I am not talking about Thanksgiving when I am talking about cold turkey though there were plenty of turkey leftovers. I am talking about nursing Katherine and the desire to wean her in the near future. This morning she slept until 7:30 instead of 6:30 so I was actually close to ready to get up for the day. So, when I got her out of bed I did not bring her to our bed to nurse her and fall back to sleep. Instead we got up and went in to eat breakfast. She ate more than usual which should be no surprise since she was not full on milk. All morning I tried to keep feeding her and distracting her until we went to church. After church we went to my parents where she ate lunch as soon as we got there. I had Sam put her down for a nap and she only cried for about 3 minutes. After her nap it was at least 30 minutes before she requested "Moolt" (her new way to say milk). So, I actually did nurse her at that point. She did not request it again until we were almost leaving my parents house at 10pm. We went home instead and I gave her Cheerios to eat in the car. At home I put her in her pj's and put her in bed. She did want to nurse but I decided to try to put her down without it. I set a 5 minute time limit of crying but she was silent after only 3 minutes.
So, in one day we went from nursing 6 times to nursing 1 time and falling asleep every time without it. That is pretty close to cold turkey, at least for one day. We will see what happens the rest of the week. I think the key factors will be getting up and starting our day when she wakes up rather than starting out by nursing. That begins a chain reaction of eating instead of nursing. The other important thing is to stay busy so that she is distracted. I find that she wants to nurse more when she and I are home all day not really doing anything.
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