Reason 567,671,981 Why Nursing Your Toddler Rocks
Imagine it’s the middle of the night. You are sweetly tucked in next to your hubby and your nearly 18 month old son. Said son is nightweaned, however still nurses during the day. Suddenly he wakes up. And when you awaken enough to figure out that he is fussing, you realize that he is saying “drink! drink!”
Now if you were not nursing you’d most likely have to get up, trudge downstairs, get out the cup and fill with water, head back upstairs, hand son the drink, and try to get back to that comfy sleep you were enjoying.
However, since you are still nursing all you had to do was pull your son to face you, latch on, and fall back to sleep. As you are falling asleep you tell yourself ” this nursing toddler stuff rocks.”
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