2.5 daughter still bf

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and showing NO signs of wanting to stop.

We are no undercover feeding as my non pro breastfeeding family and friends would be horrified.

Will she ever want to stop tho, she is still in love with feeding (getting a bit worried she wont!)

I have the same issue with my son 21 months. Also same issue with family apart from DH. I too undercover feed! My son seems to enjoy it more each day and need it more. He is now reaching in to my top all the time and actually grabbing my nipple. I really don't know where to go from here. He is v upset if I try to deny it. I feed him in the morning (often becuae he gets up at 5.30 and I haven't the strength or will to get up so just feed him in bed) and then after I pick him up from nursery he seems to want it and to cosy up. (that's twice a week) Be good if anyone who had been in this situation could give a bit of advice.

How lovely! well done the two of you.

there is no issue, with regards to other people...

I fed my DS until his third birthday - I was ready to stop by then, and I felt he would be able to cope with it much better than a few months earlier.

He was an absolute milk MONSTER at 2 years (around the same age as yours now) and I couldn't sit down without him wrestling me for a feed!

We established rules - only before bed and first thing in the morning, and as he grew more verbal, it was easier to explain that we would be stopping on his birthday, he was a big boy, etc.

He sobbed that first night - but never asked for boob again.

Only you and your children can know/negotiate when it is best to stop. Don't let others pressure you!

That's wonderful. Well done and what lucky toddlers.

I fed my DD until she was three and a half. I had to stop for medical reasons, sadly. Would happily have continued for longer, but to be honest it was already coming to a natural end - just a few minutes at bedtime and occasionally at other times if she needed comfort (when poorly or after a tantrum).

Please don't let what other people think be what drives you to stop.

But if you definitely want to finish bf, I can tell you what I did.

I had to stop by a certain date (two weeks before I was due to have surgery). I told DD very gently every time she nursed for about two weeks beforehand that we would have to stop soon. Not today but soon. Then on the allotted day, when she asked to have milk, I said yes, but told her that this would be the last time. She had a monumental meltdown. We both did, actually. But she did calm down and she nursed that night and then didn't even ask for milk the following night.

She did ask again on subsequent nights but mostly it was out of habit. She only got tearful ('I NEEEED my milk, Mummy!') once or twice and was easily distracted.

My ds is the same, he just loves his milk. Fortunately family are too polite to say anything but I do feel a bit self concisions sometimes.