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 .......

[AntsMarching]

18 months for both of mine. I stopped them at 18 months, with dd1, I stopped because I was pregnant again and it was too painful. With dd2, she was losing interest anyway and I had a 3 day holiday away on my own and when I came back she never asked for more.

[KondosSecretJunkRoom]

7 weeks, 3.5 yrs, 2yrs and counting.

[Franny1977]

Three months. Did I read someone wrote 4 years above???

[soupmaker]

DD1 4 months. Looking back I wish I'd persevered but she had horrid reflux and seemed to hate feeding. DD2 15 months. She was EBF to 6 months despite a difficult start with tongue tie. She weaned herself and never bothered with having a bottle or formula. Was bliss as I'm lazy.

[TheSconeOfStone]

8-9 months with both. Had already phased in mixed feeding. I had expected to BF exclusively until at least a year but was sick of the exhaustion. The relief was stronger than the guilt by the time I stopped with both of them.

I don't know many who made it past 6 months.

[worriedmum100]

posted too soon.... meant to add we stopped because he lost interest, stopped demanding it, lost weight and we were both miserable. It had been great up until about 3 months then steadily went downhill. He was very happy to take a bottle though so the transition wasn't hard luckily.

[Narnia72]

DD 1 22 months
DD 2 26 months
DS I initiated a gentle stop on his 3rd birthday (initially having tried when he was 2!!)

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeG0es]

DC1 - 9 months but mix-fed (with formula) from 4 weeks.
DC2 - EBF for 2 years 9 months

[Muchtoomuchtodo]

Ds1 for 9 months and ds2 for 12 months.

[MrsAukerman]

15months
We were down to bedtime only for a couple of months and fancied letting his GPs take him overnight.

[whatsonyourplate]

DD1 13 months
DS 2.5 years
DD2 3 years 4 months and counting.

[GreatFuckability]

18 months, 2 and a half years and 2 years respectively.

[RubyChewsDay]

Are you conducting a special BF survey OP

[debedoo]

DS self weaned at about 18 months xx

[Hurrayitsnotdark]

3 weeks, 3 months and 5 months. I was so over the whole boob thing by 5 months and so couldn't be bothered with it. Highly unpolitically correct but very true.

[StitchesInTime]

DS2 is 2.5 yrs and still breastfeeding.

It never worked properly with DS1 and gave up trying by 3 months. But he was mostly on expressed breastmilk until about 7 - 8 months.

[Ludways]

Struggled with ds who had a huge tongue, 2 months. Did 26 months.

[Vinorosso74]

16 months. Last couple of months was just a feed before bed.

[GreatFuckability]

all stopped more or less of their own accord. the older 2 both lost interest when i got pregnant again, the third lost interest once she realised i wasn't going to give to her all night anymore!

[foxessocks]

1 year

[katienana]

18 months

[heritagewarrior]

12 months until DT1 bit me (and drew blood) then gave up, and his brother couldn't stand being different so gave up shortly afterwards. I loved it and genuinely felt bereft when they stopped....

[Alyx80]

Dc1 - 23m
Dc2 - 21m
Dc3 - 2y8m
Dc4 - still going at 13m

[MoreTeaPenguin]

15 months for DS, then he lost interest and preferred bottle. 2.5 years for DD, she seems to be losing interest now, so I expect we'll stop soon.

[itshappenedagain]

Both DS and DD until just after 3. In fact stopped feeding DS and fell pregnant with DD the next month!