Hello all,
Been breastfeeding my DS for 11 months now, after a rocky start where he was given formula following blood sugar issues we got to 6 months EBF. He's taking to solids well, still BFs plenty and has the odd bottle of formula when I am at work. I still offer milk before solids. He has water at meal times and recently we've started offering a tiny bit of cow's milk in a beaker to see if he'll accept it - he loves it!
I have always fed on demand and offered a BF before solids and at various times in the day if it's been a little while since his last milk feed. I just wondered, as we get close to the year, what the plan should be? Do solids take precedence over milk feeds at this point?
I never expected to get this far with BF. I planned 6 months, revised it down to 3 when we had problem after problem, and then stopped planning altogether after about 6 months as it comes so naturally now. I thought I'd stop when he got his first teeth - he's now got 6. I am aiming for a year but not sure now when we'll stop... I never really enjoyed BF to begin with, it's funny how things change.