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 .......

Nearly made it to 12 months - she gave up on my dwindling supply 5 days before her first birthday (she had a cold). Still get a pang just before her birthday (she's 6 now).

DC1 is nearly 4 yrs, DC2 is nearly 2 months, both currently still feeding :)

DC1 26 months.
DC2 currently 11 months.
I got a looooot of stick for how long I breastfed my first DC but I'm proud of it! I never planned to do it for so long, but I (and she) loved it!

DS1 - 9 months
DS2 - 8 months
DS3 - 4.5 months

I was happy with how long I fed the first two for. I personally didn't want to breastfeed beyond a year and the two of them lost interest before that & pretty much self weaned. Back then, 20 or so years ago, we started on solids earlier so by 8 or 9 months they'd been eating a good mixed diet for a while and it felt fine to stop breastfeeding.

I'd have liked to have fed DS3 for longer but for some reason I struggled with supply and had to mix feed from about 8 weeks. I'm happy I managed to keep going until 4.5 months, but was very sad when we had our very last feed.

I'm tandem feeding a 3.10 year oldand a 20 month old. fed oldest through conceiving my youngest andspregnancy. I'm wondering when my oldest will self wean but I don't mind. It's useful as a comforter and for getting him to sleep.

2 years - went back to work when Ds was 6 months and loved the evening feed snuggles after a stressed day.

13m and still going strong no sleep as she feeds much more at night and always has done and I'm going to let her self wean.

Am back at work 3 days a week, haven't slept in well over a year and sometimes having my body at the disposal of someone else BUT I still want to let child self wean.

9 months
18 months
18 months
18 months

8 months of expressing! (Premmie baby never got the hang of latching)

Ds1 = 15 months
Ds2 = 18 months

8 months and still going. Mixed feeding since I went back to work recently. Keeping going when working is hard especially if no time to pump as quite a bit of pain in breasts by the end of the day, but I'm told they'll adjust.

11 and a bit months, but with formula too. Wish I hadn't stopped now the teething is happening again.

No1- 3 months
No2- 7 months
No3- 13 months (bottle refuser or it would have been less)
No4- is almost 5 months, not sure how long I'll keep going but it won't be until he's 2.

6 months - 4 exclusively and 2 more with one bottle of formula a day as well, as my milk wasn't keeping up with his demand.
However, all of that milk was expressed with a breast pump and given in bottles, so apparently that doesn't count as 'breastfeeding'! (or as bottle feeding...)

DS1 - 8 months then the teeth came ouch!

DS2 currently 4 months - hoping to do it for a bit longer this time! Really enjoying it!

Good luck I know it's not easy sometimes x

2.5 years
2 years (then got pg so he went off it)
3 years.

12 months and 18 months (ish)

Dd was just shy of two when she self-weaned. Just wanted to add, I went back to work when she was four and a half months - return to work doesn't have to mean the end of bf, depending how things work out.

DC1 - about 24hrs. Total failure!
DC2 - 13mths
DC3 - 2.3yrs

3.5yrs both times.

5 and 4 (over 5 years non stop).
I'm not sure either of them would have self weaned any time soon as they each continued to ask for bf for months after they stopped!
I did feel they'd each had their fair share

6 months with dc1. I was going back to work but I'd had enough to be honest, I wanted to get drunk and I wanted my body back! I didn't really enjoy it, I did it purely for the health benefits.

Due to give birth to dc2 and I'll probably do it for a similar time, maybe a bit shorter.

Failure is not on the part of the mother or baby!! If you wanted to breastfeed longer but struggled and couldn't you were let down.

17 months
2 years

DD - 2 years 7 months
DS - 23 months and still feeding