working towards weaning

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DD is one and has a BF before bed (feeds to sleep), a dreamfeed and a feed about 6am (started shortening this today, which was fine as she doesn't really wake for it, just do it before I go out to work).

For various reasons I would like to start (very gradually, sob) working towards weaning her. I've started giving her infant soya milk in a cup during the day (she is dairy allergic). Just wondering if I should be planning to give her a bottle or a cup for evening feeds when we start to swap them? And should I warm the milk?

Don't know how it will work because she loves breastfeeding and especially feeding to sleep but I want to have a bit of a plan.

Why!
It's not against the law to feed a baby over one to sleep, or feed them in the morning either if there's time and not if there isn't.

Feeding in
The middle of the night is more annoying, but a boring cup of water isn't worth waking up for

Yes, I know.

But DD has multiple food allergies, which limits my diet, and is making me underweight and unwell - I have my own health problems so it isn't a good combination.

I'm not in a rush, but want to have a gradual plan.

Sorry to hear about your health problems.

One thing to consider is tooth brushing. If teeth are clean breastmilk shouldn't cause decay but other milk could (not sure about soya milk specifically). Plus feeding to sleep from a bottle is not recommend. HV would recommend getting them off a bottle by one anyway so you probably don't want to intro one now. So you might want to move away from feeding to sleep with a new bedtime routine - stories, cuddles, backrub etc.

Thanks.

Not ready to stop feeding to sleep yet but will start to think about how to ease DD into a new routine that would allow a bit of toothbrushing!