we made it to 1 year!

i thought i would never be able to nurse dd to a year. when i started bf-ing, it was my aim to reach 12 months but now we are through the goalposts! it hasn't been extremely hard to do although i have to admit that i have yet to night wean dd.

the main reason for not night weaning is to keep up my supply, as i would now like to see if we can nurse till she turns 2; i read that early night weaning could sometimes lead to total weaning. also, i think that my experiments with night weaning in november resulted in my period returning after a few months' lapse.

backtracking a bit: to my chagrin, the first time AF (aunt flow) came was just when dd was introduced to solids and still sleeping through the night. she has since singularly failed to sleep through without wailing for a feed. in fact she stopped sleeping through the night when we undertook a car journey to singapore when she was 7 months old - that 1st night in singapore she kept crying every few hours and the only way to pacify her was to nurse. and this has continued ever since! we don't know if it is due to the travel upsetting her and us falling into a pattern of nursing at night, but we adopted co-sleeping because of the night nursings.