No More Tits for DS Ever!

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DS is 18 months old and I've decided to ween off the breast for the new year.

Its been two days now- He doesn't seem to be missing it at all.

Plus- to get him out of the milk habit, settling him for bed and during the night falls to DH. Welcome to my world, motherfucker!

Tit are like bloody boulders though.

Charming.

I am a bit demob happy

dashoflime sounds fab to me. I'm 14 weeks in and loving breastfeeding but when the time is right I know I'm going to relish getting my body back and having more space. Your post made me laugh, hope all continues to go well for you and you get some nice high-necked tops in the sale!

Cheers Pizdets

I was actually a bit worried. I thought he's be distressed and really hard to settle. Plus there seems to be a lot of info on the web about how to start breastfeeding and nothing on how to stop.

Turns out you stop by er, just stopping.

Very relieved.

Shock horror, mum says f word

I stopped recently but more because DS wanted to.

HaroldTheGoat Is the f word formula?

If it is, then there's no F-word here I'm afraid. DS is 18ms so he's on cows milk and diluting juice.

He was defiantly not close to stopping on his own accord though. We'd developed a habit of bringing DS into our bed in the early mornings and letting him have a little suckle back to sleep.
As a baby, this was lovely and earned me another 1 1/2 of precious morning lie in.

As you can imagine, the bigger he got, the more inconvenient this became.
The last straw was the morning of 1/1/14, lying half asleep and half awake with a toddler pivoting around on my nipple and simultaneously kicking me in the belly.
"Thats quite enough of that" I thought to myself.

No you misunderstand. I was just amused at the swears.

DS got formula once a week in nursery and he preferred it. Ingrate.

If your breasts get very engorged you may need to express to avoid mastitis. There is advice there on stopping- it's usually to drop a feed a week, but by 18 months you might be down to one or two feeds a day anyway. Express enough for comfort if you need to.

I've been squeezing them a bit under a warm shower- that seems to help.

This thread is hilarious! Am weaning my 20mo & my hormones are all over the place.

Thanks OP, you've really cheered me up. I've had a shit day.

I didn't realise what this could do to
My hormones.

Is this why I am swaying between rage tears and gloom?

I'd had enough by 14 mo so hear ya sistah! Just stopped and she bearly noticed, boobs bit swollen but actually only for a couple of days. Read about dropping 1 feed a week but that would take forever so my way worked for us.

No issues here. GL :)

Ooh Crap, are there going to be hormones?

(Waves at DuckSongRocks)

Oh God, I hope not. DD has taken to laying in until 9am, which is after I have to leave for work. I'm thinking this might be a good time to consider weaning her... Especially as Daddy already does bedtime, because she won't go down for me, turncoat that she is.

Sounds like a good window of opportunity