Weaning 12mo old off the breast

[Bubblesmum]

Hi Ladies,
My 12 mo old has a renewed interested in bfeeding - right at the time when I was keen to start weaning him. He drinks from a cup (expressed milk) Mon-Fri as I work full time so I know he can go all day fine without me.
Would be eager to learn from your experiences what you found the best way to a) eliminate all the day feeds and move him to cows milk and b) then in time get him off the bedtime and morning feed. I don't mind continuing to feed morn and night for a while once I can stopped the day time ones and stop expressing. really want to ditch the pump now !
Thanks

How does he feel about cow's milk?

I would probably try cow's milk on its own. If he takes that, then bingo, no more expressing. If he doesn't, you can mix cow's milk and your milk, but reduce the amount that's your milk, over a few days.

Re: the breastfeeding. I probably would just stick to the feeds you're happy with, and distract him when he tries to feed the rest of the time. Offer milk, water, food, whatever.

(I'm a fine one to talk, though, I keep trying to get DS2 to only feed morning/night/nap (he's 14 months), but he's a regular boob monster, particularly when he's off-colour.)

I didn;t replace DS daytime feeds with cows milk, he just had water at snack & mealtimes, and continued with morning & night feeds until 14 months, then dropped to night time only. I suppose timing-wise, morning and afternoon snacks replaced his daytime feeds, initially.

I finally dropped his night time feed a couple of weeks ago (20 months) and he does now have a cup of milk before bed.

He also eats plenty of dairy & a good diet generally.

I haven't tried him w/ cows milk yet - was planning to this weekend. Thats a good point to try with pure cows milk first and if he takes it I'm sorted. I always presumed I'd have to do the mixing thing (and expressing to make it up etc..)
The other thing I worried about is that he's just started to agressively pull at my top etc... when he wants feeding and seems to think my boobs are his playthings etc. Also has been under the weather lately with ear infections and gone back onto boob more than ever.

Thanks!

Yeah, I know what you're going through. I think it was at about 1 year that DS2 realised that I always bring my boobs along! He can have them whenever! But he should make sure they're always there.

This, coupled with his continuing belief that I have extra spare boobs hiding somewhere, and hence should be topless for feeds, if possible (he often gets mad at my clothes for being there), makes feeding in public a bit tricky.

I think I'd be ok with him asking to feed, but the pulling at clothes thing really annoys me.

(Well done with the expressing, by the way, I don't think I would have bothered, if I went back to work! Too lazy.)

yes, my guy is the same !!... sometimes he seems to just want to check they're still there and same story with clothes - gets annoyed and pushes them out of the way. He's started to sign for boob/milk too (I think the nursery showed him) so he does that frantically and then if I am not instantly co-operating, he toddles over and pulls my top down.

I'll give the cows milk a shot and report back