Those who breastfed a 2+ year old... How did you stop?

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I'm still happily breastfeeding my 25 month old DD... And currently night weaning her (has done it previously but it slipped back due to illness, deprecation anxiety and sleep regression)... Anyway I'm hoping this will help cut back on feeds overall and as she has just dropped her nap ( oh how I miss it!!) I no longer need to feed her to sleep in the day.

Anyway, my question is how did you stop breastfeeding altogether? Aibu to not really know how to stop? Did your toddler self wean or did you have to refuse feeds and comfort them another way?

In an ideal world i would let her self wean... But she's very attached to the boob and I suspect she'd be 3 or 4 before she did....I was initially thinking of trying to stop in the new year because we'd like to have another baby. I won't go into the medical reasons but I absolutely can't breastfeed and TTC or whilst pregnant and as I'm getting on a bit age wise I didn't want to leave it another year....

Advice please

DC and I did counting.

Counting up to 10 or 20 (sometimes with fractions 1/2, 3/4 before the last number) and said "stop". Initially DC want to continue so we kept doing the same routine over and over again until DC got the hang of it.

DC is now very good with numbers

Just before DS1 turned 4 he realised it was used to get him to sleep and he stopped himself.

Mine was 3 and had decent level of understanding, we had already stopped all day times a while before, just did night, then I went away for the night - and when I came back, I said it was all gone. It was heartbreaking to see her try and cuddle up and paw at my top but really it was only a few days and then she would ask " all gone?" but we cuddled anyway and still do 6 months on

We cut the day feeds over the course of 1 week changing it out to cows milk/water during meals and he didn't really object (this was when he was 1 YO). We are currently weening the bed time feed by supplementing with cows milk and hope to have him off within a few more days. I do bed time sometimes and obviously can't B-feed so he only has cows milk which he doesn't mind with me.

This is for a 15 month old.

I made a big deal of big girl milk. Bought some fancy Lanisoh beakers with a soft straw??... Reduced gradually. Last to be dropped - morning feed. DD was 2 years 7 months.

Dd was 2.5. She was a complete addict and in the end what stopped it was me having to go on antibiotics that would have come through in my milk. I ended up having to buy that bitter aloe stuff for anti nail biting and out it on my nipples as she just wasn't having it. I told her my boobies had gone yucky. She insisted on having a try. She confirmed they were yucky. That was it!

Very attached co sleeper here. For his (3rd!) birthday, we said there's no more milk now - you're a big boy and he got a cup with Nesquick milk in the day time (wasn't really interested) and Daddy did bed time. I still fed him once asleep to just try and get some sleep.

He got really feverish when he was 3yr 4m and I just offered water as no one was getting any sleep anyway and that was it!

My DD aged 4 still latches on maybe once every three weeks - she says milk still comes out - how do you know when it has dried up completely can't it go on for years?