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Need to stop BF by end of Jan when DD 12mo - advice needed please!

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EagleRay · 23/12/2013 21:04

DD is currently nearly 11mo and is BF first/last thing each day, plus one or two feeds during the day (generally only if nothing else will placate her). She drinks water from a sippy cup quite well and I try to offer this throughout the day.

Before I got pg I was taking drugs for a pituitary condition and stopped while pg and bf. I need to resume the medication soon and have a consultant appt in Feb so want to stop BF by then. Problem is, I go back to work (full time) in the middle of Jan too and am a bit worried that this might be a bit of a stressful time to stop the early/late feeds.

I'm trying to formulate some sort of plan for cutting back, then stopping BF - I suppose things would dwindle naturally but I have a bit of pressure re timescales. If I was to start replacing a BF with milk in a sippy cup, should it be formula? And if so, how much should I give her? She only takes little sips of water so imagine it could be a slow process!

Am vaguely amused at my dilemma as in the early days I posted on here a few times as supply was poor, had been told I could never EBF etc etc and it never occurred to me I would find it tricky to stop Smile

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lilyaldrin · 23/12/2013 21:10

I planned to stop at 12 months, so at about 10 months (when DS was feeding 4 times a day) I replaced one day feed with cow's milk, then at 11 months another. I offered 100ml in a sippy cup - he barely had any though.

At about 12 months I just stopped doing the bedtime feed, DP put him to bed - but I hadn't been feeding him to sleep anyway.

Kept the morning feed til last as it bought me a bit of extra time in bed in the morning Grin But by 13 months he just turned that feed down one day so I just started taking him straight downstairs in the morning.

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