Self-weaning from breast? really?

[k2togm1]

I'd like to let my ds dictate when to wean from the breast, he is 15mo now, but will it ever happen? do toddlers really ever give up that wonderful source of warm milk and comfort?
I know you'll say 'have you ever seen an 8yo bfing?' well no, but I'd love to hear from people who have succesfully let their dcs self-wean.

Marking place. I weaned ds1 at 2.5 yo but am intending to let ds2 self wean.

DS did at 40 months. Was possibly because I was pregnant, so less milk and he could taste the colostrum, I am not sure. But v gentle process for both of us.

That's my worry cleanandclothed, that in reality self-weanning just happens when the next one is coming along, but we are planing on having no more, so wondered if it could really just carry on and on and on...

Never offer, never refuse is the way to encourage self-weaning, I understood from my LLL course but I stopped DS' bedtime feed myself at 23 months so I've no idea how that would have ended.

Springforward - never offer, never refuse is a weaning technique. Self weaning needs no encouragement - that's the 'self' part of it. That's not to say that gentle mother lead weaning is a bad thing as it's most certainly not, it's just not self weaning (which isn't really the Holy Grail of bfing, it's just one way of ending the bfing relationship).

DD1 self weaned at 3y 6m as she was no longer able to latch due to changes in her jaw shape in preparation for her first adult molars (she had them around a year later which was about 2-3y earlier than normal).

DD2 is self weaning and is 4y 7m and DD3 will be self weaning (though not yet!) and is 2y 8m and I plan on letting as yet unborn DD4 self weaning - just goes to show pg doesn't mean weaning for all children (this is DD2's 2nd pg she has bf through). I don't anticipate DD2 weaning before 5y at the earliest as I keep thinking she has (she can go 3 weeks between nursings) then she goes and asks again

thruth very impressed by your nursing abilities!

So is it looking like i'll have to go for 'gentle encouragment' then as I had forgotten about tandem nursing...