Breastfeeding at 16 months - would like to stop. How??

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Can anyone help. I started BF DS2 with no particular plan but was amazed when it worked well (DS1 was very prem & never got the hang). 16 months later he is a very well grown toddler with a huge set of gnashers.

I am glad I've been able to give him a good start but now I'm considering weaning off the boob altogether. I have loved doing it but just feel like we're coming to the end of the road. He only has 2 feeds per day (more if he's poorly or teething) but I am hoping being boob free will mean he is slightly less clingy with me (he literally clings to me all day long) and so I can go away for the odd night without worrying I'm leaving him without his milk/ comfort.

Can I just stop? He won't drink cows milk at all but will eat milky cereal and other calcium rich foods so should be ok?

Help!

hello!
i stopped bf dd at 16m too. was a couple of months ago now. we were on 2/3 feeds a day and she was still v boob obsessed. i am pg and couldn't bear it any longer! i ended up going away for a few days and nights.
never in a million years thought i would be able to.leave dd as hadn't left her at all really till then! need not have worried tho as her and dh got on really well and she didn't look for boob at all.
i used to feed her to sleep still but amazingly dh managed to rock her to sleep. she woke a couple of times first night and dh said he went in and cuddled back to sleep.
the second night she slept thru for the first time in her life.
i got a lovely break. dd learned to sleep thru and i successfully weaned her with zero fuss!
when i returned on the 4th day every time she asked for boob i just said all gone and distracted. she was fine.
dh still had to do bedtimes for a few weeks as she would ask alot for boob if i did it but now a couple of months down the line i can lie naked with her in bed and feeding doesn't even cross her mind!
we still talk about boobs alot and she is obsessed with talking about boobs and touching them but i think most toddlers are!
sorry this turned out to be epic but the crux of it is i did it so easy by going away and i never ever thought it would work but it did...so go have a lovely few days away!!x