nursing

I am still nursing Camille. Which is not really a surprise. I love it and definitely wanted to nurse her until she was a year. The problem is that I think we should start to be weaning at this point and we are not. I nurse her when she wakes up, before morning nap (if she takes one), before afternoon nap and before bed. So she is still nursing about 4 times a day. It’s not exactly a crutch she uses to fall asleep with because I put her down awake and she will fall asleep in her bed without nursing. She just wants too and is very comforted by it. Part of it though is how do I wean any of those? Do I give her a cup of b-milk before her naps? I can’t give her regular milk. I do have some in the freezer but my stash is getting smaller and smaller because I send more to day care than I pump. Which is fine with me because at least my supply is decreasing. My other concern is that I don’t want her to be getting too much milk. Av used to drink too much and so therefore was anemic for a long time. Boy was that a pain giving her iron supplements. C had her finger pricked at her 9 month checkup and she was slightly anemic so the Dr. put her on a vitamin with iron and told us to give her iron fortified cereals and he would re-check her at a year. The last thing I want to do is the iron with her. That was no fun with Av. It would be easy if we just cut out the morning nap to cut out that nursing. My biggest worry about the nursing though is that she wants to nurse EVERY time she is mad/sad/upset/hurt/sick. She throws a fit until I lift my shirt up, so some days we end up nursing a 5th time a day. She is really hard to distract out of it too. I guess though one day she all the sudden cut out the night time nursings so I will just hope she will start to wean herself soon. Just not all at once! At least if she does I will know to bring out my trusty friend pump to wean with. I have loved nursing her. It has never felt like a burden on me. I guess it helped that she has always been a quick nurser. We never sat there for 45 minutes only for her to want to nurse again in an hour and a half. I will miss it very much when she decides she is done so I guess I should just enjoy it for the short time we have left.