The past 2 weeks has been very exhausting. Why? Weaning my baby Clarisse from breast-feeding. She would get up once or twice nightly crying to be fed but will not consume anything else except breast milk. Forcing her to drink formula has been fruitless. It made her resent the very sight of a bottle even more. In fact, the moment baby Clarisse sees me with a tin of milk powder, she’d start to pout and make noises.

They say weaning breast-fed babies is tough. It’s no joke I tell you. Before weaning, I could easily nurse baby Clarisse back to sleep whenever she demands for it at night. But now, I have to do all sorts of things to distract her so that she’d slip a few sips of milk at a time. To finish the entire bottle, it takes around an hour. This is a nightly ordeal and has been going on for weeks.

At 13 months now, I believe baby Clarisse still needs her daily intake of milk and it would be too early to wean entirely. I would’ve given up trying to make her drink her milk if she’s older than two.

I yearn for a good night’s sleep so much. A massage therapy. A weekend away from home, a short vacation perhaps. Anything that would mend my exhausted and stressed out mind.

More on my struggle with weaning baby Clarrisse from breastfeeding soon …