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

280 replies

QueenE27 · 25/02/2016 21:06

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

OP posts:
Brokenbiscuit · 25/02/2016 23:47

BF dd exclusively for the first 6 months and then continued to feed her until a month or two before her third birthday.

Had initially intended to bf for the first year only but dd obviously had other ideas and wasn't minded to stop, so I kept going until she was ready to wean.

FWIW, I went back to work when she was around six months, and was still able to continue feeding.Smile

Mrsantithetic · 25/02/2016 23:51

Dd stopped six months ago a month shy of her third birthday in attempt to atop the hourly wake ups (worked!!)

Ds is 18 months and is fed over night (again almost hourly!) It's all done very stealthily because dd thinks he doesn't get it either.

alltouchedout · 25/02/2016 23:53

DS1 2 years, DS2 2.5 years, DS3 15 months so far :)

sambababy · 26/02/2016 00:10

21 months, until 4 months pg with DC2 when it was too painful, plus she was really only doing it to sleep by that point. Weaning her from those 2 tiny feeds wasn't hard and I was very ready. Hoping to ebf next baby too but looking forward to my first ever night away from DD first!

pilpiloni · 26/02/2016 00:20

Dd1 4 years

Dd2 2.5 years

Dd3 19 months and still going

Barmaid101 · 26/02/2016 00:50

3 feeds!

BadDoGooder · 26/02/2016 00:55

Haven't RTFT yet, but just for the record Smile .....
DS 3 yrs 3 months

PrimalLass · 26/02/2016 00:56

DS 8 months
DD 22 months

Arseface · 26/02/2016 00:58

Btwn 18 mnths and 2.5 yrs (4dcs)

By the end it's really only the bedtime feed though.

Lovely memories of those sleepy feeds - safe in the knowledge I'll never have to do it again!

HoundoftheBaskervilles · 26/02/2016 00:59

I would like to see a cessation of all Blush faces from all the women who did not manage as long as they would have liked. You did your best, we all do our best, that's all that matters surely?

I would imagine the majority of women posting here who were born in the 60s and 70s were bottle fed because that was the orthodoxy then, it was believed and promoted to be the best way so women could be free from the shackles.

We're all ok, I'm ok, I guess the rest of you are. I loved breastfeeding my babies, but it's NOT the be all and end all.

They are not doomed in any way if you don't or can't.

Just another hook to make women feel bad I guess.

If that was followed to its logical conclusion, my breast milk was completely useless anyway because I was bottle fed, I never even got near a tit.

I also think BF is probably more important in developing countries because of lack of access to clean water, regular supplies of formula etc.

In the Western world, I really don't think it matters, not a jot, not an iota, really, it's nice, I enjoyed it, it was quite self-indulgent at times, and of course, it made me feel like A REALLY GOOD FUCKING MOTHER. I often think extended BF in the developed world is yet another (middle-class) stick to be wielded at the barbarians at the door.

You bottle wielding feckless shites.

NoncommittalToSparkleMotion · 26/02/2016 01:40

2y9months. I initially said "Meh, maybe 6 months..." When I was pregnant.

PastaLaFeasta · 26/02/2016 03:48

I did just over a year for both, until pregnant and too sore for DC1. I couldn't have coped with doing it much longer and the idea of breastfeeding now goes right through me. I just wanted my body back. I also found it very difficult and struggled to do it at all initially, had to combi feed at the start and take medication with extra pumping sessions to make it through the day without formula top ups. Single hardest things I've ever done. But funny how unimportant it now seems.

YokoUhOh · 26/02/2016 03:53

Nearly 3 years. And no periods!

Focusfocus · 26/02/2016 04:16

Into fifth month now with dc1. Original plan was to do the Nhs recommended 6 months but now contemplating a year....

howcomes · 26/02/2016 04:24

4 years, I found it very hard work for the first 12 weeks - actually it was horrifically painful! DS would have happily continued for longer..

oldjacksscrote · 26/02/2016 04:28

14 months and currently feeding my 8 week old, I'll aim to feed him for a similar time if not longer

ThatsNotEvenAWord · 26/02/2016 05:38

19 months. Weaned due to morning sickness, glad to have a bit of a break before next DC arrives

splendide · 26/02/2016 05:44

16 months so far but he also has formula (bedtime bottle) and we've mix fed since 2 months when he started losing weight. :(

ICJump · 26/02/2016 06:19

Over 4 years
Over 1 and still going.

And I'm fucking massively proud of it. This shouldn't need to be said but my pride isn't done at other mothers it's my achievement.

ImogenTubbs · 26/02/2016 06:24

9 months. Which was right for us.

DeltaSunrise · 26/02/2016 06:58

Ds1 6 months

Ds2 2 1/2 years

LimitedSedition · 26/02/2016 07:06

26 months, then she decided to swap me for sausage!

Booboostwo · 26/02/2016 07:07

3 years 1 month, she stopped when my milk dried up during pregnancy and perversely I feel really bad about that.

18 months ongoing.

Salene · 26/02/2016 07:13

11.5 months

AButterflyLightsBesideUs · 26/02/2016 07:13

4 years and 4 months.

I weaned her because of super tender pregnancy nipples. Then lost the baby at 13 weeks.

2 months later apparently she can't remember feeding Hmm

Mind you, she can't remember yesterday either Grin