Operation: Take Back the Boobs

Once upon a time, I had great boobs. Round, not too big and not too small, and best of all, perky. Gravity and four hungry mouths hadn't yet taken their toll, drawing my lovelies closer to my belly button than my shoulders. I played them up, but really, I totally didn't appreciate them for the grand things they were. I was an idiot. I miss them.

I've blogged before about how we're still nursing, and I am SO READY to be done. Nemo turned two back in November, and I've been either pregnant or nursing for all but a handful of months of the last ten years. I'm cooked. I want my boobs back.

This weekend, we are launching a salvo intended to let me reclaim them. BigDaddyFish and I are going away. Just the two of us. We've rented a cottage all to ourselves. We've booked the Manny, who is going to move in for the weekend and herd the small people.

This is only the second time we've done this. We had to do it with Sunny, too, to evict her one month shy of her second birthday. We don't have family that is in a position to watch our kids overnight unless it is an absolute emergency, so time for just the two of us is extremely rare.

And I'm scared it won't work.

Nemo is so much more attached than Sunny was. She was down to nursing just once a day, and she didn't even ask for it, so the transition was pretty easy. Once we got back from our long weekend, she asked maybe twice, and when told they were empty, all gone, she easily forgot all about them. I'm not sure that Nemo is going to be as easy to put off. He nurses at night, sure, but he'll ask periodically throughout the day, and though I always tell him no or try to distract him with something else ("Where's your sippy cup? Wanna watch Oswald? Here, sit on my lap! Give me a kiss and hug! Let's play blocks! Want some chocolate? A lollipop? An entire toy store?"), sometimes he's adamant that only the nummies will do.

Wish us luck. Wish the Manny luck, because he's going to be working his assterisk off while we go enjoy adult time. I hope this works. Because I have no idea what to do if it doesn't.

Comments

[hokgardner]

I am so jealous! Enjoy every minute of your time away. You deserve it. And I hope it works in terms of nursing. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed.

[Agincourtdb]

I need no luck, for I am superbabysitter! :-)

[Capt]

Wow. If you know of any more blog posts involving boobs, please let me know.

Kudos to your commitment to breast feeding for so long.

[De in D.C.]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that this plan works! You totally deserve to have your body back. And if it doesn't, at least you'll enjoy a weekend away :) That, in itself, is priceless.

[jodifur]

I hope everything went swimmingly.

I, am a riot.

[Kandace]

OMG! I thought I was alone. No, really. My daughter turned 2.5 at the beginning of the month and it feels like she will be nursing until she heads to college. On the one hand I'm ready to be done and on the other is her insisting that the only thing she ever wants in this life is NuNu's.

I weaned my first on a trip. Dad and him went on a trip while the baby and I stayed back. Upon his arrival home he asked twice and was easily distracted.

She spent the night at Nana's on Saturday and I'm sitting here typing this with cabbage leaves on my breasts because they were engorged from eing away from her for 12 hours. I can't imagine a whole weekend!

I hope it worked!

[BananaBlueberry]

Hope you guys HAD FUN !!!!!!

I think I mentioned to you awhile back about a habit- you can break a habit in 4 days, now, that doesn't mean they are EASY days...

GOOD LUCK :)

[Doctoral Dissertation]

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