If you breastfed into toddlerhood...

[DressingGownQueen]

When did you stop and why?

dd1 stopped at three when her sister was born. "the boob is for her now" she said

DS cut down when I was pregnant with DD1 and then stopped entirely when she was born (he was 3.2) -- he decided it was something babies did.

DD1 stopped around 20 months -- DH came back from a long stint working abroad and she became superglued to his side for a month or so, only wanting him at bedtime. That meant that the evening feed was dropped, and the morning feed didn't last long after that.

At 22 months she will be able to cope with context-sensitive being able to nurse when you are around but not when you aren't, so (assuming you want to) you should be fine to send her to her dad's for one night even if you don't/didn't want to stop bf entirely.

I weaned ds at 23 months when my dd was 12 weeks old because I was shattered! I weaned dd at 25 months because I'd had enough of her constantly pestering me for it (she was fine when I wasn't there).

I weaned them both, no sign of self-weaning in this house! It wasn't particularly distressing in either case but it did take a bit of planning e.g. Dh being able to get up in the night/ early for a few days.

She lost interest naturally when I became pregnant (she was 2 years almost exactly then). Good luck

I kind of accidentally stopped when DS was 2. I had been ttc for 10 months when I stopped doing his early morning feed (his biggest one) in case it was hindering my efforts (I was getting impatient ).

I then got pg month 11 :) and DS just gradually stopped himself after a few weeks, he was about 2.2 when he last had a feed, although he has occasionally spotted a boob and asked about milk, he appears to have forgotten how to latch already. He's had a go but just put his mouth on and looked a bit puzzled/giggled.

I was glad it was all very easy for him, as I had wondered how/when he would wean. I replaced the morning feed with cuddles and stories and he actually seemed to love it.

Looking forward to bfing DC2 in a few months :)

Both of my boys just naturally lost interest. DS1 stopped abruptly (after biting me hard) when he was 18 months. I think my milk must have changed because I found out I was pregnant shortly afterwards. DS2 stopped pestering me at his regular time (non-verbal - up until then he'd pull at my top or pat my boobs when he wanted some) just before he was 2.5, so I stopped offering.

I stopped last week, when DS was 18 months. Like a lot of people, I guess, I started out thinking I'd do 6 months, then figured why not keep going to 12 months. At that point he was still waking once in the night so for an easy life we kept it up (I was also still in love with breastfeeding so was happy to keep going), but I dropped down to a just a morning and bedtime feed (plus the night feed). He sometimes had cows milk or formula in the afternoon, sometimes not (as he had a snack then anyway). We night weaned at around 16 months, which was tough but very glad we did it, and then I dropped the morning feed, then finally the before bed feed at 18 months. I wanted to stop for a range of reasons (awkward top-pulling down moments among them) but mainly because it just felt like time. I loved breastfeeding but I was getting more and more frustrated when he had a boob crazy day/week. I knew I would never be really 'ready' to stop (as it feels like the end of babyhood in a way), but I felt like I was as near to it as I'd ever be! We managed to drop the last feed by me basically making myself scarce at bedtime, and leaving DH to do bath and bed. DS got the idea pretty quickly. He was grumpy the first night (not crying but kind of grumbly at his dad, though he went to sleep easily and slept through). Then he got the idea and didn't seem to mind. On the 5th night he asked for it in a half-hearted way, but didn't seem to mind when I said 'no, boo's all gone' and that was it. I thought I'd feel really sad, but I feel kind of neutral about it. It was lovely while it lasted but it's great now that he's not trying to pull my shirt off at bedtime lol!

I stopped about a month ago when DS was 19 months. He was only having one very short feed a day, at bedtime. DH and my mother had occasionally put him to bed for me and he wasn't fussed about not having a feed. Basically, I just felt that I'd had a lovely time BFing, a great experience, but that I was keeping my body in BFing state for a feed that neither of us were bothered about keeping (especially since he had started a habit of nipping me a bit). I've had an iron deficiency, have started running and just worried that it was possibly holding me back from recovery a bit.

DS didn't seem to notice at all tbh and I admit I've felt less hormonal which has been rather nice.

21 months and counting here! We night-weaned a couple of months ago and he accepted that, but it's had no effect on daytime feeds. He's very much up for it, but fine when I'm not around, so I'm happy to let him continue for pretty much as long as he wants/I'm able to. Nothing at all to do with the calories I'm using up...

21 mths. Finally felt I'd had enough as he wanted 4-5 feeds a day as well as 2 at night! All this on top of 3 cooked meals! Then his bro went into hospital for a small op, and I availed myself of the opportunity of having a grandmother holding the fort at home to pack it in. Twas lovely, albeit tiring. Glad we went on as long as we did.

I night weaned both at about 6 months - Dh went when they cried and rocked for a while and got them down - it only took a couple of nights with both. I think you would need you mum or someone to come and do that - I think that for mum to go in as usual and then refuse milk is tough. Someone else needs to go IMO.

Difficult if you are co-sleeping though, I just realised!

I need my sleep and so sleeping through / night weaning was important to me. For BF generally I fed DD1 for 14 months and DD2 for 13 months.

Do you know though - the things that I have been really worried about - night weaning, getting DD2 to give up dummy, her going to nursery without her blanky and stuff...

It has been one or two days, and not even that bad. Just "nope, sorry, it's lost" or whatever and they have been fine. Different children may be different, obviously, but I found the anticipation much worse than doing it, and actually, they were fine and there was no fuss.