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how long did it take your toddler to forget about bfeeding when u stopped?

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camflower · 22/11/2010 09:25

ds is nearly 15 months old and having a miserable time teething at the moment. it got so bad that he went on nursing strike for 3 days and a little voice said 'perhaps if this goes on he will self wean, which would be quite good', although he always hated formula and he's not that keen on cow's milk.

he very obviously wanted to feed but when he tried it was too painful so he had to make do with having his hand down my top - and i even gritted my teeth and allowed some nipple twiddling for once!!!

anyway, he managed it yesterday and it was obviously such a relief and a comfort to him that i felt guilty for even thinking about stopping. i'd be interested to hear anyone else's experiences

but to get back to the point of my question, i wondered how long it would take for him to forget about bfeeding - a week? two? people say, 'oh, they forget about it really quickly' but ds obviously wasn't going to magically forget after a couple of days

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camflower · 22/11/2010 09:26

ps oops - added the 'i'd be interested to hear ... bit' in the wrong place, sorry!

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Renaissancewoman · 22/11/2010 09:44

My DS just turned 2 and stopped bf about 1 month ago. This morning he was pulling at my arm pit asking for milk but was not at all insistent that it be breast milk. He is definitely forgetting already as he used to pull the shirt up or directly pull at breasts. And he was very happy to wait quietly whilst his Dad got him a bottle.
My friend has baby the same age and recently had to do a week away with work. She thought that would be the end of bf and her husband had no problems with giving bottles whilst she away but when she got to the front door on returning home he didn't say "momma/mummy" or anything like that he just yelled out his pet name for her breasts as if so relieved that they were back!!
You are exactly right that they derive so much comfort from bf but be assured that cuddles do come quite close.

TruthSweet · 22/11/2010 09:54

DD1 was bf until 3.6y/o and she still remembers nursing very vividly - she can remember tandem nursing with DD2 and I only nursed them together for 8 weeks (DD1 would have been 20.5 - 22.5 m/o). They can wean and still remember bfing without it hurting them. DD1 has fond memories of bfing and of her weaning.

stickersarecurrency · 22/11/2010 10:36

It probably depends on whether they self wean or not, and how easy a process they find it to be. DS self weaned at 2.3ish and just over a year later he never mentions it, despite me now feeding his little sister. Yet he never stops going on about a place we went to on holiday around a month after he stopped!

Ineedsomesleep · 22/11/2010 12:24

Fed DD till she was 2.8. At 3.3 she still asks for it sometimes.

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