If you bf past 6 months, when and how did you stop?

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Dd is 9mo and I always planned to stop at 6 months, but then realised how convenient it was compared to the faff of bottles and formula so I carried on. She still has feeds morning, evening, 2 at night and 1/2 tiny ones in the day that I can't get her to drop yet. She's started biting and I'm not sure my new plan of waiting until she can have cows milk will come soon enough!
How/when did you do it?
(She already has one bottle a day so I know she'll take it)

I used to take mine off when he started to bite, and just say 'No', and he looked at me,

And then put him back on - and if he did it again take him off again etc. till the message got through.

I ended up feeding him till 4 1/2, but only because it was easier. I never intended to do it long term like that and I had a lot of mastitis/blocked ducts when he was about a year old, but we got past that thankfully.

He became less bothered, I started saying 'not now, later' or offering something instead like a drink in a cup etc and it just phased out with no real trauma.

I did try and stop at 1, again at 18 months I think but after an evening of him crying while I carried him around and wouldn't let him have it, I gave in and just carried on.

We stopped around 13 months with both boys.
From about 11 months, I worked on switching feeds for snacks or (yes, I know the guidelines, and ignored them) a beaker of cows milk.
First morning and night feeds were the last to go.

Do you want to carry on feeding? If so, I'd work on stopping the biting. Unlatching them, a sharp (and real!) Ou! and sitting briefly on the floor - ie not in contact but still next to them stopped things pretty quickly here.

If you want to reduce the number of bf, I'd start moving one feed a day to a bottle (formula or bm), and letting your supply settle for a week before reducing again.

I stopped at 8 months due to biting. I just stopped. DS did take a bottle and was well established on food by that point.
The hardest bit was not being able to use it for comfort. He didn't look for it.

Good luck whatever you decide.

From 6 months i gradually replaced a breast feed with a bottle feed. I wanted to get pregnant again and had to totally stop before i started ovulating. Formula at night was the most inconvenient - it totally woke me up wheras bfing makes me sleepy. Why do you want to wait until he can have cow milk?

Bf until 22 months (well hopfeully only just stopped completley). Stopped by a mixture of distraction and sometimes refusing, one feed at a time, stopping very gradually.

We had biting a few times each time this resulted in me taking dd off and either saying no or ignoring her for a few minutes/stopping the feed completly. Each time the biting only ever lasted a few days max. Though admiddetly I was cautious about her biting for a while afterwards.

I also didnt really 'plan' any longer than 6months just happened.

I carried on with DD until she was 15months - basically because she wouldn't drink formula or cows milk or take a bottle or drink from a cup. By that time we had got down to just the feed before bed, as she was eating by then. I had to go away for a couple of days so wasn't there at bedtime so she didn't have her feed. Never asked for it again.

Oh and both my DCs had teeth at 4 months, I carried on bfing DS until 6months. If they bit I took them off (although they usually came off in fright at my scream) told them no and then put them back - they soon got the idea.

I started letting nursery give formula mid afternoon instead of EBM at around 11 months and then on days when DH was doing bedtime and I was working late he started using formula instead of EBM around the same time. She then had cow's milk at nursery from 1 and I stopped expressing.

She weaned from bedtime breastmilk by latching on and off and shouting "no no no want 'ottle" at around a year but I kept on with overnight breast feeds and morning feeds until about 15 months when she got 4 teeth at once and they rubbed my nipples of shreds. After a week of crying when she latched on and bleeding nipples I called it a day and she went straight onto cows milk

We're slowly weaning 12mo old DS at the moment. His feeds are now all sleep-related (i.e. part of the pre-naptime/bedtime routine). The last non-sleep related one to go was the morning feed around 11mo. It was actually pretty easy - I just stopped offering and DS adapted pretty quickly, increasing his solids/formula intake. We had started getting him used to taking formula from stage one Tommee Tippees from six months on, so there was already an alternative there (DH did that when I wasn't around initially - if I was there he just wanted breastmilk). Possibly we were just lucky with how easy it turned out to be!

I've just stopped, about 2 weeks ago (although he did feed in the bath yesterday, just latched on!). Baby is 8 months.

I stopped gradually over about 2 months. Started off with an evening bottle, then he started sleeping through (12-13 hours, not waking at all!) at 6 months, so I kept the evening bottle for a while. Then I started giving him one with his lunch. Then one in the afternoon. We kept the morning one for a while, and then I dropped that. I didn't really want to drop it, but I noticed a big difference in his morning wake time if he had a bottle rather than a BF.

Stopped at 13 months having been down to just the bedtime feed since 12 months. DS accepted it very easily, didn't replace the evening feed because he won't take milk in a beaker ( - gets all his dairy in meals). Instead just slightly changed the bedtime routine so no longer went into my room, where had always fed on my bed, but straight to his room & into bed

Dd - stopped at 9 months but had introduced formula at 6 months so it was easy.

Ds - stopped at 12 months. He wouldn't ever take a bottle despite us trying every teat and strategy possible. We just upped his yoghurt/cheese consumption and he was fine. He wouldn't take cows milk but drank lots of water. At 2.4 he now loves cows milk. Contrary wee fella.