I am firm in it being nobody's business as to when a baby is weaned except the baby and the mom unless the mom knows that nursing will somehow destroy her marriage. Barring that possibility, the nursing relationship was established by God between Mom and Baby.
I am posting one of the most heartbreaking poems by my favorite poet. If you don't know the history of this wonderful man and his family...he and his wife experienced the deaths of children, natural and adopted.
He wrote in a time when the doctors were never questioned. Here is a man who knew his beloved's anguish and in a day like today would never subject her to this torture.
The time for nursing is short. These unique moments with your little one are limited anyway..and once gone..can never be recaptured except in your memory. That memory should be as sweet, even at the ending, as possible.
Cherie
Weaning the baby
by
Edgar A. Guest
Her
tears are very near to-day,
There's
sorrow in her eyes,
For
they have ordered her away
Whene'er
the baby cries.
There's
little beauty in the sun
However
fair the day be,
For
now the mother has begun
The
weaning of the baby.
No
more upon her gentle breast
That
little face may lie,
No
more that little nose be pressed
Against
her food supply;
No
more by night, no more by day,
That
wondrous pleasure may be -
This
shadow falls across the way,
The
weaning of the baby.
Oh,
you may smile, but mother sighs,
And
now the hours are sad.
She
sees the look of pained surprise
In
eyes that once were glad,
And
in her throat a lump comes up
That's
big enough to throttle,
Because
her lovely babe must sup
Her
dinner from a bottle.
Now
bottles can't sing lullabies
When
tender babies dine,
Or
read the love in little eyes
When
eagerly they shine
And
so she sadly says to me:
"I'll
miss her fond caresses,
The
cuddling ways which used to be,
Her
tugging at my dresses.
"Ill
miss her cry for me at night
And
all her squeals of glee,
Her
smile of welcome and delight
When
she discovered me;
I'll
miss the tie that holds me near
And
long will every day be,
I'm
sorry that the time is here
For
me to wean the baby."
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