To ask when you gave up breastfeeding?

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DD is rapidly approaching 6 months, and after 5 weeks of mixed feeding hell at the beginning thanks to a missed tongue tie, exclusively breastfed. I had always said before I had her that I'd do the 6 months breastfeeding, then switch to bottles, but am second guessing myself. When and why did you give up? Is there any point in moving to formula when breastfeeding is going so well?

Can I just get on my terminology high horse. I didn't 'give up' breastfeeding I made the informed choice to switch from breast feeding to formula milk from a bottle. I did that at 6 months for dc1 and 3 months for dc2. The amount of pressure to breast fed left my youngest dangerously under weight and he still has issues that may be related today. Breast is not always best it barely even rhymes

12 months, 10 months and 12 months. All my babies self weaned.

10 months ds
15 months dd1
25 months dd2
20 months and counting with dd3

You're just getting to the easy bit. Breastfeeding aN older baby or toddler is very different than breastfeeding a tiny baby. Why give up if it's going well?

So you gave up breastfeeding, wot, just as presumably at some point you gave up the bottle.

It sounds like very poor breastfeeding support there, which is a shame. Breast is best but support is usually inadequate.

DD1:: exclusively stopped after. a week and mix fed until she was 14 months.

DD2:: EBF from birth. Is now 5.5 months and refuses a bottle so bare that in mind too as sometimes getting them off it is a nightmare.

I'm hoping to feed her until 12 months but we will see. If she still refuses the bottle it's going to be a lot longer!

3 years and 9 months. She self-weaned.

I must admit the highlight was running into the midwife who had told me "you'll never breastfeed your nipples are the wrong shape" when I was still feeding at 2 years

I loved breastfeeding. I'm very sad I won't get to do it again.

2 years. The first 3 months were hell on wheels, but plain sailing after that (and the discoverey of Earth Mama Angel Baby nipple butter ;))

DS self weaned at just under 2yo, DD is still bf at 3y8mo. She says she'll stop when she's 4 but I'm not sure I believe her. I've never had a target in mind with either of them and have always been of the opinion that I would stop as soon as one of us decided they'd had enough.

Bear in mind OP that even though baby will be on solids they still get the majority of their calories from milk until they are at least a year old so you'd still need regular milk feeds whether they be formula or breast milk.

5 days (milk never came in)
3 months (mixed fed from the start)

and 15 months and still going.

4.5 years.
She's 7 now and still giggles and asks sometimes - and giggles some more when I chase her away declaring that they don't dispense ice cream!

About 15 months with both of mine. Just dwindled away naturally at that time. Never did bottle feed at all. DH tried oldest once - but she was having none of it! I found BF much more convenient anyway. Will need milk less as weaning is established.

22 months. I was sad to stop but had to due to a medical procedure that would've made it unsafe

DD1 3 yrs 1 month stopped due to being pregnant with DD2 and milk drying up

DD2 3yrs 11 months stopped again when pregnant and milk dried up.

DD3 23 months so far... Will stop when it's the right time for DD.

About 2mins after I started. Amd spat out my nipple, screamed blue murder and I decided I couldn't take the stress.

However I do have MH issues and had prenatal depression requiring a MH assessment from SS.

allowlsthinkalot I was too well supported in breastfeeding but no one would dare say to try formula. It has since transpired that my youngest has muscular problems so breast was absolutely definitely not best for him.
I dont like the terminology 'give up' because it sounds like failure and i didn't fail I did the best for my child. - but thanks for your judgment.

Still bfeeding dd at 4.2 years - no signs of her wanting to stop yet.

With my DD I stopped at about 9.5 months as I wasn't making enough milk for the evening feed and she got really frustrated. I ideally wanted to go to a year so she could go straight into cow's milk, but we did a few weeks of formula. She never took a bottle so we used a doidy cup and then a beaker.

We are at 4 months and I'm trying him on a bottle - though we have not been successful yet. Will try to gradually switch as soon as he is happy on bottle - I just need to be me again. He's number 4 and the last one - all have been breastfed for varying amounts of time and introducing formula didn't make any one of them grow an extra head or anything. I just want my life back. Selfish but true. I think you need to go on your instinct here. Xx

Still going at 27 months! (hippie mum?) I want to stop now, but I find it difficult because my boy will not go to sleep so easily without. We have cut down loads though, and it's only once for bedtime now!

Wanted to say, I aimed for 1 year, and then 1,5, and then moved to 2 years. I thought it was a bit weird to bf after 2, but here I am! Haha :) It doesn't seem so weird now I'm doing it.

Honest answer? When they wouldn't stop fucking BITING. (I thought I needed stitches on one memorable occasion)

Both were about 8 months.

14 months with my son - first born, and 22 months with my daughter. I would have carried on happily, but she gave me up! Just didn't want it any more.

About 8 months (from memory - 16 years ago ) - DS had major surgery at 6 months and I wanted to continue until then; I never went onto bottles though, too much faff, he could happily drink milk from a cup by then.

Why did I give up? I never particularly enjoyed breast feeding, I didn't hate it, but certainly didn't feel any of those 'emotional' bonds that you read about - to me it was just the easy option lazy .

I still bf once a day (bedtime feed) at almost 2 years. I found it got easier with weaning, especially after 1 year when she drank water and cow milk by day.
It wasn't instant of course, between 6 months and 1 year the cut down in feeds was gradual and online stuff about babies who ate 4 ladles of stew and no milk from 7 months didn't help as she gradually upped solids.
It's not an inconvenience at all- if I'm out she has a beaker of warm moo juice from dh at bedtime. But it is very useful when she's ill or sad.