To ask how to stop breastfeeding

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10 months old. Had cut down but now loves a boob again. He feeds for ages at bedtime and mid morning and a couple of other short feeds in between. Would like my personal space back x

Will he take a bottle? How is solids going? My dd stopped at about 14 months but by then it was night and morning only. And we stopped because I caught the flu. I was breastfeeding on no food with a 40 degree temp. So I dried up. I was a bit sad but the time was right as she had started trying to get down my top when we were out in public or if she was distressed.

Up the food and try bottles.

I weaned my baby at 16mnts, 4 mnts ago. I just offered her the bottle & when she tried to lift my top & signed to breastfeed I just kept saying 'all gone'. She was upset initially but would eventually accept the bottle and within a few days it was done. I still get lovely cuddles when she has a bottle and if she sees my breasts now, she'll point & say 'all gone' so she remembers! Best of luck!

The other thing I did was to introduce a dummy (not for everyone) but it helped her self settle at night and we gave it to the baby fairies just before she was 2. No damage to her teeth as only used for settling to sleep.

He actually took a bottle from me tonight at bedtime but that was after a breastfeed. I can't really get him to take milk during the day though. As for solids, I literally couldn't feed him any more - he has three meals, two snacks and supper every day! He's not even that big. I feel sad about stopping but also get a bit frustrated at being stuck on the couch for so long at a time

I lasted until 12 months with both DCs, at that stage food takes over from milk in terms of nutritional balance so I felt less guilty about stopping .(though there is lots of value in feeding for longer but for various reasons (work, travel, personal space!) that wasn’t for me!)

But we just dropped feeds gradually - offering a snack or cup / beaker of cows milk instead of each feed to start with. We stuck with the morning and evening feeds for a while and then dropped those one by one.

It felt like it happened natural and was the right thing for both of us. Good luck!

I have this exact same question. DS2 likes a bit of comfort from feeding. He's 11 months. He'll often have a good size lunch and then a decent size feed. Although tbf, for him a good feed is about 5 minutes

I stopped after just over a year, I dropped one feed at a time so it was very gradual. From what I've heard, it can be quite uncomfortable if you stop suddenly as your body is still producing a lot of milk.

I guess I'm not wanting to stop altogether, but just to cut back on the length of feeds, especially during the day. He conks out and still feeds for ages for his morning nap then I go to put him down when he stops and he wakes up and has no morning nap. I felt terrible for my 4yo as he stayed so quiet the whole time and then got no time with me as that's normally when we do something together

Started giving a bottle of formula to go to bed with a ten months.. then was only a morning feed..
That fizzled out at 13 months..

My 2 year old feeds every 1.5-2 hrs at night. And every time I sit down during the day....there’s just no chance I can stop now. I’m stuck.

If you really want to stop ring your local breastfeeding support people

@Thehop I have a friend in the same situation and I don't want that/couldn't do that.

I am starting a bedtime bottle as of tomorrow though 

Well he's just fallen asleep on the bottle which he took no problem. Feel happy and sad at the same time

From memory 9/10 months is a tricky time - developmental leap or something - I found both of mine upped feeds then but did cut back again. Having said that both did increase them again, especially DD who I bf til she was nearly 3 (many months more than I wanted). To give the previous poster (hoop?) some hope though, you can stop. With DS it wound down naturally & with DD it was painful with a lot of tears from her and me hiding in another room (but that only lasted a few days)

Certainly with DS1 it all happened very naturally and I was down to one feed a day by this point, but he's started to turn into a boob fiend and I can't spend my days off when I'm back at work feeding him to make up for what he's missed when I've been away