Emotional about feeding!

Hey ladies, my husband doesn’t understand and I’m feeling alone, so I thought I’d reach out. I’ve got a 6 1/2 month old girl, my first baby, and she is exclusively breast fed. Even when I had to go back to work when she was 4 months old, and she didn’t gain any weight for that month, we kept going. I pump at work and it sucks, but I love her so much. When I get home we breastfeed multiple times before she goes to bed, and I always nurse her down for comfort. I nurse her in the night when she asks, and first thing in the morning before I go to work.

Everybody says we’re supposed to be introducing solid foods about now. I set a goal to exclusively breastfeed to 7 months before letting her try anything, even though she’s really curious. She’s not ready in other ways though, like she doesn’t have her pincer grasp down yet. (We’re going to do baby-led weaning.) So we’re waiting. It’s almost 7 months, and even if it takes her till 8 months or whatever to have her pincer grasp and be ready, the point is, it’s almost here.

Now I find that I’m the one who’s really not ready. I go back and forth between being so excited for her to try some tasty food that’s on my plate that I almost give it to her, to being practically in tears because I don’t want her to ever eat anything but breast milk. I’ve been emotionally wrapped up in this thought lately of the day coming when we’re not going to breastfeed together anymore, and it makes me cry every time. She’s my sweet little angel and that’s all we’ve ever done together since she was born!

I know she can’t live on breast milk for the rest of her life and that would be very weird, but have any other breastfeeding mamas struggled with just even the introduction of solid foods?