Follow-up to Weaning

Three days after I returned from my work conference, I went camping with Scarlett. The camping trip was planned almost a year ago with our mommy friends so even though it wasn't the ideal timing, we decided that Scarlett should still go and hang out with her friends. Neither my husband nor I really wanted to go. We had decided that I would stay home with Elliot and our greyhound since 1) Elliot wants to crawl everywhere so it would be very stressful and not fun for us if we brought Elliot and 2) our dog would take up our entire trunk, where all the camping gear would go. Then a day before the trip, I decided to go with Scarlett instead (due to a friend's situation). My husband was suffering from lack of sleep due to Elliot waking up throughout the night so he wasn't looking forward to camping anyway. So Scarlett and I headed down to Big Sur on Saturday morning to join our friends who already arrived the day before. After I got home on Sunday, I found out that Elliot refused all his bottles of milk, but still ate his solid meals. Maybe I thought too much of myself but I hypothesized that he was angry that I had left him (for the work conference) and stopped breastfeeding. Then I went away for another day (for camping) and he stopped drinking milk altogether. A few days later, he did resume taking milk from a bottle again, but not as much as before. His pediatrician assured me that he's fine nutrient-wise (as long as he gets yogurt) but I was still sad that my traveling led to a change in his feeding routine. His new routine now is three solid meals (instead of two) with rice cereal in the morning and three bottles of milk a day (half of what he was drinking before I left for my conference).