If you breastfed for over 6 months what made you stop?

[IcouldstillbeJoseph]

I am thinking going back to work for most people...
I didn't manage to do more than 7 weeks with DS but Dd is almost 10 months now and I'm still very much enjoying feeding her not so much in the bloody night. I am not due to go back to work until March but now wondering whether I can keep it going even when back at work.
What sort of age do they self wean? If they do?!

DD1 - I gave up when she was 11 months. We were down to only bfeeding first thing at morning and last thing at night, as I was back at work, and I needed to start travelling for work.

DD2 - self-weaned at about the same time, has always been and still is an independent little madam!

DD3 - I gave up at 17 months because I was ready to quit and she wasn't that bothered.

With all 3, I continued feeding in the morning and at night quite easily when I went back at work. They were happy with a bottle or cup at the childminder (my childminder is a wondrous woman who will try everything till she finds a method that suits - she has even spoon-fed milk into babies to help them transition). So yes, you can keep going when you're back at work. My work does provide a place to express but TBH, by the ages mine were when I went back, I didn't see the need and I was shit at expressing - it's different if you're going back earlier.

DS self weaned at 10 months. I was down to twice a day as wanted to do keeping in touch days etc. He had been less interested . One day just point blank refused. Never again!

Both DDs stopped at about 12 months,DD1 started getting fits of giggles when put to the breast and started biting she basically saw the whole thing as a joke so I reckoned she was ready...I had to start a dose of steroids at around 12 months with DD2 so we gave up the breast then,I was working part time and down to 1 feed a day so I think we were both ready

DD2 never stopped, we agreed it was getting silly when she could feed with us both standing up - like the famous time cover - but without the chair!

I breastfed until I went back to work. After a few weeks back at work (I went back full time) I noticed DS wasn't sleeping well and was crankier than usual. I put that down to the change of me being away. However then I noticed he was ragingly thirsty at night, despite 40 minutes at the breast. That's when I realised: my milk supply had plummeted from being back at work. I was quite sad about it but by this time I was pregnant again so figured my body needed a break from two babies needing sustenance, so I just stopped offering milk. He didn't pester or mind, but if he ever sees my nipples his eyes light up and he dive bombs for them, so 4 months later he still remembers!

Work would only allow me to finish early, at 5pm, until DS was a year old, then I had to go back to my usual, later finish time so I had to wean him at 12 months as he couldn't have a bedtime feed.

Ds1 10 months. Started biting - hard. Bruised my arm when he bit me.

Ds2 24 months. Only fed morning and evening after the age if 12 months.

With both - expressed at work using a mains pump and a fridge in the mother & baby room.

Pregnancy. :)

Though there was also a strong element of self-weaning as well, he was 2.5 and down to only one or two feeds a day and was getting less and less interested in those: I was able to just say "I think you're a big boy now and have drunk all the mama milk" and he was pretty much ok with it.

Didn't find going back to work made much of a difference (and hasn't so far with DS2) as I didn't go back til 10 months with DS1 and a year with DS2 - so only missing one feed while I was away, and work flexible/near enough to home to easily do a feed before and a couple after. Currently expressing at work for a lunchtime cup of milk for DS2 but if he's anything like his brother that'll be the feed he completely drops first.

I breastfed DD2 until she was 15months at the point where each feed was Russian roulette and I sat and winced incase she bit me I knew it was time to stop :)

Oh I went back to work 3 days when she was 7 months by then I fed morning and night work days and lunchtimes also on home days :)

DS1 I did 10 months and stopped because I was having a medical procedure that involved medication which meant I had to stop
DS2 13 months, he has never slept, I had PND and I thought it might help if I stopped, which it kind of did.
I would have carried on forever with both of them though if it had been different circumstances, and it makes me sad if I think about it too much

Yes, I went back to work at 7 and 9 months and still bf!

Pregnancy for me too, she was 26 months old and it just hurt too much, I persisted as long as I could because feeding her meant she fell asleep (wouldn't easily nap otherwise) and I could have a sleep too because I had first trimester exhaustion. It was lovely cuddling up on my bed with her. Still bf'ing second child, 16 months and counting. Hoping to get to at least 26 months this time too.

I went back to work FT when Ds was 6 months.

Stopped BF him aged 2.1 years. I was pregnant and sore! He stopped surprisingly easily tho.