Another update

Well, it's been a while and I am shocked that I didn't post during October since my attempts at conquering the IPC were very successful...ok, moderately successful...during that month. I actually gave up chocolate for a few weeks as I had got into the habit of buying it and gobbling it and not really savouring it. At the end of my self-imposed chocolate fast, we were in London and I indulged in hot chocolate Milano from Caffe Nero which is just very, very good.

I am now recommencing a chocolate fast as we are going to London again in a couple of weeks and I want to appreciate the hot chocolate Milano as fully this time as I did last time. Mmmmmmmmmm.

As for the beginning of the end of breast-feeding. Well, that didn't happen although the few missed feeds meant that my left breast went into weaning mode and is now, in the words of Z, "ack" and "no nice". I did Google this phenomenon and, apparently, breast milk can become salty when you cut down on feeds. I do want to wean her off but I am hoping it will happen semi-naturally. For example, I am heading away in March for a couple of nights without her and I am wondering if this will cause the other breast to produce salty, weaning milk so that she won't like it when I come back. We shall see. In the meantime, I must confess, that after 'plane journeys and time differences resulting in night wakings on holidays, I am back to giving her a little feed if she wakes in the night. It is infrequent so I don't really have the resolve to go through the middle-of-the-night crying, I think, especially when I feel the end is in sight.