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 .......

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.

7 weeks, 3.5 yrs, 2yrs and counting.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!!)

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

Ds1 for 9 months and ds2 for 12 months.

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

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

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

Are you conducting a special BF survey OP

DS self weaned at about 18 months xx

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.

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.

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

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

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!

1 year

18 months

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....

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

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.

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