June 30, 2009

This week marks the 1st week since Roy been sucessfully weaned from breastfeeding. I had been trying to wean him since he was 1yrs old and now at 2yrs 6mths he is officially off!! I had been taking it slow with Roy as I wanted to let him slowly self wean. A few weeks ago I read a post which mentioned a technique a mom had used successfully to wean her girls. It didn’t involve any cold turkey treatment which could have a drastic impact on a child’s behaviour so I was interested to try.

What method is it?

Photo by Flickr

Hansaplast !! Two pieces of Band aid was what I required per day for a span of 3 days. By putting it on the breast daily Roy was deterred from daily nursing. He associates having a plaster to having a boo-boo and that mummy has a cut due to him biting. Even though he was fussing he didn’t insist to nurse and settled for the alternative- Soyamilk.

Now after a week he has totally forgotten about nursing and taking to Soya milk before bed. The next thing that I will have to tackle with Roy is to get him sleeping in his own room at night. 🙂

Weekend Linky Links- Mom Faves

: Image by Kopfjäger via Flickr

This weekend has been rather busy for me as I have been doing a makeover for this site. For the longest time I wanted to go with a Magazine style WP template for my site. I have seen many of my blog buddies do a revamp with their magazine templates and they really look ultra cool!!

Do you like the new design? I’m still working on ideas about the header to make it a more timeless piece and a true reflection of ” From Dominique’s Desk” If you do have any suggestions please drop one in the comments below.

Here’s a round up of some of my favourite Mom sites.