breast fed to sleep 15 month, when to stop, how to stop

[BUTU]

My son is 15 months old now and he is still breast fed to sleep. This is the only way he goes to sleep. I'm a bit concerned that what will happen when he stops having milk from me. Do you know how to breast feeding without fuss? I'm not in a huge hurry. Just would like to know what you think.

He will stop nursing to sleep by himself without any intervention from you if you don't mind waiting? My DD stopped at about 16 months and after that she'd nurse in the bed and then either myself or my DH would lay with her until she fell asleep.

In my experience, they stop falling to sleep on the breast at some point. With my 3rd, it was when she was 2-ish. That's when I started putting her into the cot/bed awake. She's 3 now, and not bf any more, and just gets into bed and looks at a book, then goes off to sleep with no fuss.

So my advice is, if you're happy with how things are at the moment, not to worry about the next step - your DS will just stop going off to sleep on the breast at some point, and that'll be the trigger to change the routine.

If you get fed up of it before he does, and want to change things for your own benefit, then the Elizabeth Pantley No-cry sleep solution book has some good tips.

cross-post with Midori!

thanks for all the nice advice. I will keep feeding till he is bored of the my milk then.

At about 22 months, after having bf to sleep every night, my dh started putting dd in her cot awake at 7 every night and, miraculously, it worked straight away! So you are not necessarily in the terrible bind you might feel you are in re stopping, or that others might warn you about! When you feel you are both ready, you can just switch to the bedtime routine you want to use, and there is no reason you should have difficulties - if you do, there is lots of advice out there for establishing good bedtime routine, so don't panic.
Will you stop bf entirely at this point?