How to stop bf a toddler? Help.

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DD is 2.2 yo and I am so ready to stop, mainly because she tends to wake up very early and expects an hour-long bf in our bed. I can't go back to sleep (like I could when she was a baby) for some reason, so end up exhausted.

She's stopping the afternoon nap, so now bf only morning and evening before bedtime.

Thing is , she's really attached to it. I, otoh, am fed up of being a giant dummy.

I don't want to traumatise her, though.

Would welcome advice of people who went through it. TIA.

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I'm in the same position. I didn't BF her to sleep last night so she was up from 3am wanting boob.
Fed up of it tbh, she is constantly yanking at my top I feel like a big sippy cup.

I realise I am not being very helpful to you btw, by just moaning .

Annoying, isn't it? I wonder whether me leaving for few days would make the transition easier?

Had the same problem with DD 2.5, fretted for ages about stopping & traumatising her but just bit the bullet in the end & did it. And she was fine. Took about two days for her to stop throwing a wobbly when I said no, I'd had visions of screaming tantrums going on for months.......

So my advice would be, if you've had enough (as I had - no-one can say we didn't do our best), just stop. You may be pleasantly suprised.

Were you telling her for a while that you were about to stop it before you actually did it?

I've been trying to stop for the last few months. Very very slow, dd (2 in jan) now accepts that "E" is only forthcoming just before bed and first thing in the morning and she only gets one helping, do not do buffet service any more. She still says "E time! E time!" when she sees my naked norks but think she is joking because she laughs when I say "not E time, cuddle time". My supply has really gone down as she wakes up thirsty in the night if she does not have a cup of cows milk before going to sleep after her feed so guess that in a few weeks/month or so she will lose interest. She now asks to be cuddled to sleep instead of "more E"

No, did consider having a discussion about it but in the end thought it best if we just did it, two year olds have no concept of the future anyway so I thought it would probably just have confused her.

She does still tweak them whilst I'm in the bath though......