Saturday, November 26, 2011

How To Wean Your Child Before Starting Chemotherapy

That is the term I kept searching for a few weeks, until I realized no one had answers. Aren't nursing moms with cancer somewhere on the long tail?  I did come across stories of people who miraculously found they *didn't* have to wean after all. But no one was about to say that in my case, and I wouldn't have believed them anyway. So the little one still snuggles with me in the morning when she wakes up, and I smell her sweet, soft hair while she nurses, and the rest of the day I put her off and distract her with other things, and starting next week there will be no snuggling in the morning and no nursing either. I think she will handle this OK. I will always be angry and sad. This is technically the least of my worries, but it winds up being the most bitter.

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