There is nothing like nursing a toddler. Nursing makes nighttime parenting much easier for me. There is no running to another room to comfort a screaming baby, or sitting awake in a rocking chair trying to get him back to sleep. Because he shares my bed, he is able to find me when he is first waking and nurse himself back to sleep. Nursing is nature's tranquilizer for both of us.
Nursing makes parenting a toddler easier.
It's a great way to distract him from undesirable or unsafe behaviors, and so much less distressing than harsh words from someone he loves. Right now, we aren't interested in weaning soon. I intend to follow his lead. I feel that it is too important to him for me to decide when it's over, at least not without it being something we do together. We are a partnership in this, and to dissolve the nursing partnership we will work together.