Hello
My ds is 19 months old and I am still breastfeeding him. He has 2 feeds during the day if he has 2 naps, otherwise 1. He has a feed before going to sleep at night and 1 in the morning. Then he also has feeds in the night when he wakes up (I know this sounds bad!).
I really love feeding him though I have worried about him only being able to sleep drinking milk (which is the case unless he is in the buggy or the car where he will also go to sleep) and how I am in a sense "interfering" in his night sleeping. Then over the past couple of months I have just decided not to worry about it and to enjoy it because it is a lovely close feeling to have.
Now however he is getting quite big and I think I would like to wind down to stopping completely sometime over the next 3 or 4 months. I know this will be sad but I guess we will get over it. I would like to start by dropping the middle of the night feeds but keeping the night and morning one and I would also like to get rid of the association between sleep and milk for his morning nap but possibly keep that feed. Then later I could work on dropping the 2 feeds before he sleeps (nap and nighttime) and lastly the first thing in the morning feed.
Does anyone have any advice on how to do this? I would replace the breastmilk with rice milk as we do not want him to drink cow milk (though he does have cheese and yoghurt).
Also, does anyone have any words of advice on getting over the sadness which I know will be there?
I was sad for a couple of days when he stopped saying "mama" and changed it to "mummy", so maybe it will be the same thing - you move on and begin to enjoy new things? I just don't know how we will be able to enjoy the same closeness because feeding him is like a prolonged cuddle really.
Any advice appreciated.
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How do I wind down our feeding and how do I get over feeling sad about it?
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arabella2 · 30/06/2003 18:19
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