To stop BF or not at 2.9?

[mumnosbest]

DD is 2.9 and only BF in the morning now. I don't really mind as she's learnt to wake an hour before work and on weekends goes back to sleep so we get a much needed lay in untill the older DCs wake us up.
I'm not really desperate to give up but it does throw up a few issues.

1. If I go out (very rarely) for a drink, I end up with a screaming toddler I can't feed and a hangover. I'd quite like to get out a little more than I do.
2. I get migraines and paracetamol just don't help. Last week I took ibruprofen in the morning, knowing I had a good 20hrs before the next feed. Do you think that was safe. DD seems fine.
3. My vitamin D was low and prescribed tablets helped. I recently bought family vitamin D tablets which DD can have but BF mums can't which seems odd.
4. DD wont stay in her own bed all night as she comes early ready for her feed.

None of these are really big issues but altogether BF is beginning to get in the way a bit and I'm starting to think we're ready to move on (or at least I think I am).

Your first two are really not issues as 1. You can drink esp if it's just the night before, your alcohol level should be low by the morning 2. You can take ibuprofen when bf. eliminate those 2 and see how you feel about it, well done for bf this long tho!

Just reread no 3 - you can get bf mum supplements which have vit d in them.

I think you're making too much out of your perceived problems - they're not really issues!

And fwiw, I've been taking vit D ever since I was pg with DS2 - I was taking them before, stopped when I became pg, had my vit D levels checked again halfway through pg and levels had dropped so went back onto 1000 IU/d on doc's advice. Since DS2 was born, I've upped it to 3000 IU/d; and when ill, 4000 IU/d as vit D is also required for good immune function.

DS2 might be getting some of my vit D - hope he is! - but I need some left for me too.

You can drink and bf - the only concern you need here is drinking so much you drop your toddler (unlikely!).

You can take ibuprofen and bf. It is only a problem in pregnancy. Your toddler can take ibuprofen!

You can take Vit D supplements. It's in the Pregnacare multi-vitamin for bf mums. Your toddler should be taking the NHS Heathy Start vitamin drops too.

This could be an issue without bf.

I think it's probably the early morning wake up for bf with a hangover rather than the booze still being in op's system that's the problem!

You got it NickyEds Although that'll be an issue BF or not
I didn't realise I could take ibruprofens so that's one crossed off. Thanks for the info on vitamin D, I will shop around for one I can take.

I think some days it feels like I've been Bf forever and I do wonder if DD will ever stop. I don't really want her starting nursery and asking for it but nor do I actively want to refuse her.

Mumnos - that's a decision that you may not have to take yourself - some babies/toddlers will self-wean! Others though, like my best friend's DS4, need to be told that it's not happening any more. In her case, the only way she could get him off was to tell him her boobs were broken. Up to a year later he was still asking if they were still broken!

Whereas I stopped feeding Ds1 when he was 23mo, because it was starting to feel slightly uncomfortable from both mine and his point of view, and by the following week he'd forgotten all about it! (I know, because my boobs were pretty engorged at about day 5 post-stopping, and I was so sore I offered him a drink, just to take the pressure off - he looked at me like "wtf are you doing, woman? ".

DS2 is now 23mo and only feeds first thing in the morning but isn't too fussed if he gets taken away and has a bottle of milk instead, so if I was less lazy, I could probably wean him now - but it's too easy to just lie in bed and let him have a drink rather than getting up and getting the milk out the fridge etc. He won't drink milk out of anything other than a bottle - tried it in his cup, nope. Bottle or nothing.

Thanks but have a feeling she's going to be like your friends DS, she's a stubborn madam and even tells me to 'get off, they're mine', so think we're in for fun n game if I do strike :)
My older 2 DCs both showed signs of giving up without a struggle at 1yr but she is different in every way.