To ask if you breastfed your LO how long did you do so for?

[QueenE27]

I see the WHO advises 2 years and just wondered .......

Except. Involved. Still gets. I think. There's. Stupid fat fingers.

DD self weaned at 16 months, and I'm currently breastfeeding DS.

1 year with first and 2.5 years with second

13 months for first baby, current baby is less than 2 weeks old and feeding is going well

4 years (DC2) and, er, considerably longer than 4 years (DC1).

DD1 12 months, DD2 still going at 18 months and hoping to get to 2 years.

13 months - first 6 weeks were excruciating, fully intended to stop at 6 months, but by then was loving it (and couldn't be bothered with formula). Family thought I was weird, repeatedly had to point out the WHO guidelines to them, but realistically it was more about me than DD.

DD1 - 2 year 7
DD2 - 2 years 10

It was bloody awful to get past the first 6 weeks with both of them. 2nd time around I thought "I've done this before" and it was even worse! Kept going though.

DD self weaned at about 22 months, I was 3 months pregnant and I've read the extra hormones can change the taste of your milk.

DS is due in May and I think I'll probably feed him longer as I'm not currently planning on getting pregnant again!

22 months. I would have liked to have carried on longer but I'm pregnant and have excruciatingly painful nipples this time around! Decided to have a day 'off', DS took cows milk quite happily and didn't ask for the breast at all so that was that!

I have exclusively breast feed my son who is now 5 months old and I hope to do this until around 9 months

Dd1- 9months
Ds1- 2yrs
Ds2- 3 years
Ds3- 4yrs 3mnths
Dd2 is 14 m and still going strong

Three years.

2 weeks.
Despite tonnes of support I couldn't bear the agony any longer.
Found out later she has a stage 4 lip tie that wasn't picked up and apparently that explains a lot of our troubles.

8 weeks and then 5 1/2 months.

v low prolactin levels & the drs refused to prescribe more domperidone to me (even when HV got involve)

My GP wouldn't do this either. She was nice about it saying I'd done very well and nothing wrong with formula, which is completely true. But I'm a lazy mother and would have continued for the joy of no bottles to wash and always warm milk!

Bottle cuddles are just as a nice as booby cuddles so it's all good here.

About a year with the first, then around two years with the second.

Both of my BF DC self weaned at 16 mths ... My middle DC was tube fed EBM and then formula provided by our dietician.

Ds1 14 months
Ds2 18 months
Ds3 nearly 2 years
Ds4 1 feed from source, pumping for 5 months
Ds5 20 months and still going

Until she was two years and five months

DD1 exclusively for just a week but didn't stop completely breastfeeding until she was 14 months.

Breastfeeding DD2 now and she's 16 days old and hopefully for a while longer!

Four weeks with DS1
2.5 years with DS2

DD - I can't remember, about 2 years? She was definitely a toddler.

DS - 30 months. 6 months later he is still obsessed with my boobs and will try and shove one in his mouth if he sees an opportunity, so I'm not sure he was ready to give up really but the dentist kept telling me off about night feeds.

11 months.

And 3.5 years

About 6 months. I'd have continued longer if I'd known absolutely that he'd be my only child. I sort of thought I'd do it again at some point.

14 months, he just kind of stopped wanting to by himself. I'd have gone on for longer if he'd wanted it but he went into food. But he is very healthy, maybe that's due to it? Who knows...