I experienced the same things as Susan. My daughter will be one year on sunday and I wanted to make it to a year, which I have acheived. I was even able to donate 614 oz of milk to 4 different families to help their babies stay on breastmilk longer. My daughter has done quite well with breastfeeding and weaning. I noticed the depression when i cut back from 3 times a day to two. She was having expressed BM with whole milk for the 3rd. She has done quite well and only refused to drink the entire amount of milk given to her twice in nearly a month. I was most depressed during my first period which was quite heavy and lasted 11 days. I have felt a lot better the last few days, so I think it was related to the loss of connection. I would love to have another child, but certainly am not ready for it yet. It did take us more than 4 years to conceive my daughter and then it was using fertility treatments. So there is a very sad reality for me that we may not be able to conceive another child, so I may not experience breastfeeding again. I think a lot of it has to do with the change in hormones. We are just experiencing it a lot later than mothers who never breastfeed or stop very early.
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I experienced the same things as Susan. My daughter will be one year on sunday and I wanted to make it to a year, which I have acheived. I was even able to donate 614 oz of milk to 4 different families to help their babies stay on breastmilk longer. My daughter has done quite well with breastfeeding and weaning. I noticed the depression when i cut back from 3 times a day to two. She was having expressed BM with whole milk for the 3rd. She has done quite well and only refused to drink the entire amount of milk given to her twice in nearly a month. I was most depressed during my first period which was quite heavy and lasted 11 days. I have felt a lot better the last few days, so I think it was related to the loss of connection. I would love to have another child, but certainly am not ready for it yet. It did take us more than 4 years to conceive my daughter and then it was using fertility treatments. So there is a very sad reality for me that we may not be able to conceive another child, so I may not experience breastfeeding again. I think a lot of it has to do with the change in hormones. We are just experiencing it a lot later than mothers who never breastfeed or stop very early.
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