Drop morning feed or evening first?

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I am BFing DD, 15mo, mornings and evenings only for 15 minutes. Want to TTC #2 so I'm going to cut down. Is it best to drop mornings or evenings first?

I didnt BF but when I wanted to make the switch to sippy cup cows milk I started with the morning feed. Her keenness for milk meant she would take anything any which way!

I think that the answer to this is whatever suits you and your lifestyle or routines. We dropped the morning feed first by just getting up and having breakfast instead of lying around in my bed. Then the bedtime feed for a long time was sippy cup followed by breastfeed. Before becoming eventually just sippy cup and then nothing.

I didn't bf either but I found the morning feed the easiest to drop and replace with a sippy cup. The evening/bedtime feed was the last to go all 3 times.

Ah thanks thats a good idea with the cows milk.

She doesn't have breakfast till 8 at nursery so I'm keeping to that for routine, but she could have a cup of cows milk. Plus it'd help get her into cows milk, which she refuses at home.

Thanks everyone!

Evening was last to go with DS1 as well.

Keeping evening does make sense I suppose; I was just thinking of all the nights out I could have while DH puts the baby to bed.

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Ooh, I am intrigued!

Also in a less intrigued stylee, for ages before DS1 dropped the evening feed I was able to just skip it on the odd night to go out and then feed him in the morning - it also got him used to "Daddy bedtime". I think once you're past a year your supply is pretty bombproof and can deal with occasional deviations from the norm.

We dropped evening feeds around 16 months I think and continued with morning feeds for another 3 months. It was nice to be freed up in the evening and also she was often waking early and morning bfs meant we could all stay in bed!

I never had a problem putting her down without a feed in the evening but I'd also worked regular evening / night shifts since 10 months so she was used to sometimes going down with dad and no milk.

Off topic but I don't know how people keep kids going till 8am for breakfast!! Mine is demanding breakfast at 6.30am and when she was getting up regularly at 5am (yawn) she wanted it even earlier!!

So on nursery days she gets breakfast twice, but I dunno what else to do, for a start I need to eat breakfast before work so I can't exactly do that without giving her some…!

Watching this with interest.

At what age do you start dropping breastfeeds? I was hoping to stop bf completely by the time DS is 1.

But it seems like most people bf way past 1?

I think most people stop a long long time before a year. 50% of mums in the UK stop by 1 week I believe the stats are? But you might find, once you get to 1 year, you can't find many good reasons to stop, cause it all gets so much easier around that age, or that was my experience. I found breastfeeding a baby exhausting and breastfeeding a toddler brilliant.

I dropped the day time feeds when I went back to work, but I probably would't have if I'd stayed at home, I guess. Night feeds at 14 months cause I wasn't coping at work; again I think if I'd been at home I would have carried on with them.

All babies and mums are really different and as they get older I think it becomes more of a "relationship" - less about what they need, more of a mutual thing.

With both my babies the morning feed was the last one to go (bf into toddlerhood). Somewhere between 15-18m with each of them I just couldn't face doing bedtime feeds any more and sent DH in with cups of milk and stories instead.

The morning feed on the other hand was a nice lazy one, and enabled me to have an extra 20 mins dozing (fed lying on my side)