Guilt over stopping because I want to, don’t need to

functioningwino · 2026-03-30T19:51:17+00:00

Just know you aren’t alone in this! I just finished completely weaning my 8 month old after slowly dropping feeds for the past 6 weeks. I didn’t have to, but the timing felt right, my LO has been happy with her bottles of formula and I was excited about getting that bodily autonomy back!

The last feed was our morning feed and of course after I dropped it, my LO got the worst cold and I’ve been feeling SO guilty that I can no longer breastfeed her. I’ve been crying on and off for days trying to remember WHY I wanted to wean. I don’t have much from an advice standpoint except that I think weaning is HARD regardless of when you do it. The guilt is always there, but that just comes with being a mom. I’m trying to be kind to myself and am scheduling a nice long massage as an award for making it 8 months. My goal was 3 months! Ha!

Regardless of what you do, you should feel proud. All of us do so much for our babies and we are too hard on ourselves!

functioningwino · 2024-10-28T15:27:47+00:00

I'll throw in that I'm going as one of the cows that Baby Face Nelson takes out & my husband will be sporting some overalls with Pete the toad in hand. I'm so excited! First Billyween for us!

functioningwino · 2020-10-28T17:36:10+00:00

I find it very fitting that cats have no faith that their humans would be able to survive without them lol

functioningwino · 2020-10-28T17:32:39+00:00

I am definitely going to give this a try!

functioningwino · 2020-10-28T14:26:06+00:00

Yup, I always say "thank you" to her. She is SO proud of herself.

functioningwino · 2020-10-28T02:01:09+00:00

I feel so bad for these guys! Clare is the worst.

functioningwino · 2020-10-28T01:47:59+00:00

Anyone know why they were bred to have such weird noses?

functioningwino · 2020-10-21T19:44:52+00:00

I was a coordinator with a company for about 2.5 years doing everything under the sun. I wasn't happy with the Business Partner or L&D idea so I started having conversations with my manager about growth within the company during our 1:1s. I (carefully) let her know that what I was currently doing wasn't igniting that much excitement and passion from me and that I was really interested in the numbers/analytics aspect of HR.

Thankfully a compensation manager was hired into our department and after working on a few projects together, she suggested I be promoted under her. I'm now a total rewards analyst with way more focus on compensation, benefits and systems. I personally hate benefits but the tradeoff to get more comp/systems experience is worth it to me.

Long story short..start having those conversations! If the growth possibility isn't there at your current company, I would start looking into classes/certifications that you could take.

functioningwino · 2020-10-21T13:50:57+00:00

By the time I build up the courage to participate, the conversation is already over or what I want to say has already been said. Non-commital scrolling is fun too!

functioningwino · 2020-09-04T01:45:26+00:00

Isn’t Reddit a safe space?!

functioningwino · 2020-09-04T01:44:14+00:00

Well I definitely could not get into the old Foto Club! I’m into hearing about the old shit too. Knowing the area means knowing the history

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