Do you think she has had enough?

[JanHR]

My dd is now 17 months old and still has breast milk morning and night. Until this week she was also have it to help her go for her nap in the afternoon.

Tonight however, she did not have much mummy milk only sucking at each breast for a few seconds before coming off and sticking her tongue out and then wiping her hand across her mouth. She then asked for her cup and took her milk from that.

Do you think this is her way of saying no more?

Your input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Jan
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I was just reading a thread yesterday here on long term breastfeeding - why and when to stop, where a mum said that eventually older babies will find a cup easier and more convienient than breastfeeding and that you would be able to read the signals of self weaning. Lots of mums on that thread though talked of feeling sad or rejected for a while after their baby self-weaned, which I think is completely normal.

My DS is 12mth old in one week and I'd been thinking of weaning him after he turned 1, but am not feeling so sure now and might wait and see if I can hang in till he self weans.

THanks for that aussiemum.

I breast fed my son until he was four years old. I'd never heard of this until meeting my husband who is frm Sri Lanka and had been fed himself for this long.Apparently the world average age is four years. I just told my son that I was on medication that meant I could no longer feed him and he accepted that and was fine, no problems. However with baby 2 who is 3 months old I'll aim for 2 years max.

dd seemed to decide at 12 months that she didn't want to bf anymore; she had dropped the night time feed and just kept the morning one and then just didn't bother with it anymore so I took that as meaning that she didn't want to bf anymore. I don't know if this is similar to what you've experienced but I have talked to people who have had experiences like mine with babies of different ages.

Are you sad? I was but then we sort of re-jigged our routine. Am feeding ds now and dd is fascinated by it all but will swear blind that she never bf!

Don't know if this helps...

THanks epigirl. not sure how I feel about it atm.