The first struggle with my cute baby

A surprising or a frightening: the first response from the 17-months-old girl was when her mother denied to breastfeed for a whole day. In the next day, she said, the surprising was changed to a rage or a wrath. The never-ending crying was furious and serious. The little cute baby might have felt a sort of betrayal. In the end, my wife and I couldn’t go on the job at the first trial.

Weeks later, the approach was changed -a stepwise quitting- and we could get a remarkable progress. The baby now gets along with other meals at daytime. But at night we still have troubles.

Last night, it was the second night that my wife didn’t breastfeed for the baby and she was crying almost the whole night without a rest. Finally she got two cups of milk instead of mother’s milk slowly-for hours- and got asleep in the dawn. My poor wife was awakened all the night.

I’m not sure the baby has been crying because of a real hunger or because of her long habit, but the obvious thing is that she has felt uncomfortable and the feeling will be repeated till she gives up and accepts it or till she forgets her habit. Someday, the baby no longer remembers and thinks about this, but it might be the first hurt in mind in her life regardless of her memory.

We had experienced this before with the first son, but it is really amazing that both of my wife and I couldn’t remember his case!