No More Nursing Party

Doing her nails in the parking lot

PINK FROSTING and BUBBLEGUM!!!

Playing at the Italian Restaurant in the Children's Museum

A crown to celebrate

The Last Nursing

One week ago, we had a "No More Nursing" Celebration. I had made a chart of 10 days to count down to the celebration. Each morning we crossed out another day. The No More Nursing or as Johari calls it "Stop Nursing" celebration was whatever she wanted to do that day. I had been asking her what she wanted to do that day. The first thing that she came up with that stuck throughout the process of figuring out what her celebration would be was PINK FROSTING. Was she just going to have a mound of pink frosting? Would the pink frosting be spread on top of something? In the end the pink frosting was on little cupcakes. Then she wanted pink bubblegum on top of the cupcakes!! A big wad of pink bubblegum. I think it almost made her choke once because it was so big and juicy. But she valiantly recovered to continue her chew. We went to one of the children's museums which she loves. She painted her nails afterwards in the parking lot with her sparkle nail polish. Then she napped as we drove to the other end of town to go the mall playground that she really likes. That's where we spent the evening playing.

She has been really into chewing gum lately. Maybe that is helping with oral fixations. Or maybe it is just fun to chew gum! She has been doing really well with no more nursing. A couple of breakdowns about it. Mainly though when she starts to ask for that if she needs comfort she actually changes what she is saying midsentence to ask me to hold her instead. She is incredible. The day before the end we were talking about how it would be for her and she told me, "Remember when I couldn't nurse because you had chemicals in your body. And I was OK." (She was referring to when I had contrast for an MRI and she couldn't nurse for 3 days after that because of the chemicals in my body.)