In your opinion what age is a good time to start weaning baby from BF?

[Firsttimemummy19]

And how long does it normally take?

When the thought of getting your breast out one more time makes you cringe.

If that never happens, whenever baby is done.

Can I ask a silly question (sorry for hijacking your thread OP) - do they stop needing BF to get back to sleep eventually? At 9 months it's the only thing that reliably settles DS at night, which in some ways is very useful because it means I'm never up for hours at a time in the night, but I'm worried that he's going to need it forever!

Mine only stopped feeding to sleep when I weaned him. We cuddled him instead.

I stopped feeding to sleep about 4 - 5 months, but mine uses a dummy so it probably was a bit easier

darceybussell one of mine stopped needing that all by himself, one very easily when I night weaned, but the third stayed awake for literally hours at a time and needed to be in full body contact with me to sleep (I mean every inch of him needed to be in contact with me, ideally lying on my head and twiddling my ear or eating my hair) and if contact was broken he woke and took hours again to fall asleep once I'd stopped breastfeeding. I'm not sure how normal he is was. He goes to sleep ok now he's 7! It was a rocky year and a bit from age 14 months to 2.5 though!

As other posters have said the right time is when it’s right for you. I stopped at 6 months (because I was hating it) but if you want to stop earlier or later then that’s ok too. There isn’t a right time.

Whenever is right for you. With dd1 i stopped at 1 year. She fed about 4 times a day then and I stopped over two weeks.

DD2 is 9m, I'm returning to work 2 days soon and hope to be feeding just morning and night when she turns one. If we do this I'll feed for longer

@darceybussell when I separated feeding and sleep (so bedtime feed happened downstairs with the lights on etc. before we went upstairs and got nappy changed and teeth brushed and then quick cuddles and into bed) mine stopped waking so much at night and then I was able to night wean

Started weaning at 6 months (as introduced food).

Took 2-4 years to fully wean

DS has just turned 2.
We night weaned when he was 10 months old.
He still breastfeeds morning and evening.
I planned to breastfeed until 2 (following the WHO recommendation) and then see how it was going and how I felt about stopping.
When he turned 2 he was still having a breastfeed before and/or after his nap (on days I don't work) but I have now stopped those.
It is hard enough refusing him milk when he asks during the day - he has accepted it now but he did get very upset to begin with. So I'm not sure I can face dropping the morning or bedtime feed. I'm torn tbh as it's nice but also relentless (no uninterrupted lie ins for me!)
I also want another baby at some point, and ideally I'd like to wean DS before getting pregnant, and definitely before baby number two is born. I don't fancy breastfeeding both a toddler and a newborn.

I started weaning at 6 months (cos I was so over it). Took it very slowly though and was completely done by around 9 months

Attachment parenting, when the child weans themselves.