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When did you stop breastfeeding?

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artisanroast · 29/11/2015 07:07

Just a little out of interest thread...

My baby is 10 weeks and hoping to make it to 7-8 months. She was early hence a bit longer. Also, Daddy is Mr Allergy so the research I have been doing says to minimise my daughter's risk of developing his (and the rest of his family's) multiple allergies.

So, when did you stop breastfeeding and why?

xx

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Bambambini · 29/11/2015 08:27

"Bottle"

Bambambini · 29/11/2015 08:27

First was just over 2 yrs though it was just a routine comfort bedtime feed really by then. Second was around 6 months of his own volition really. He just seemed to prefer a bothlevby then.

AllMyBestFriendsAreMetalheads · 29/11/2015 08:38

DD was 4, but had been down to one feed not quite every day for a while before her last feed, and had been one a day for a long time before that. It was about 2 weeks after that last feed that she asked again, and told me there was no milk there, even though I knew there was because DS was only 6 months old. I think she just 'forgot' how to feed.

I never thought I'd go for that long, I just wanted to do a few weeks. But it always seemed easier just to carry on. It wasn't really formula I was avoiding, but extra washing up. At 6 weeks I figured I may as well go to 12 weeks, then 6 months, then may as well carry on till 12 months.

The hardest age for feeding I have found is around 4 months - it seems to be prime growth spurt time and coincides with baby becoming nosy.

worldgonecrazy · 29/11/2015 08:51

15 months. I don't know why we stopped, just one night she didn't have her bed time feed, and that was it.

DataColour · 29/11/2015 08:56

4.5 years with DD.

glentherednosedbattleostrich · 29/11/2015 09:01

Dd told me the day before her 3rd birthday that big 3 year olds don't need milks. She stuck to her word too!

SomedayMyPrinceWillCome · 29/11/2015 09:09

2 yrs. I'd planned to stop earlier (maybe 1 yr) but by then it was so easy and a fail safe way of providing comfort if he will in pain or ill and stopping would have taken effort, I couldn't be bothered. By 2 yrs I'd had enough & DS hardly asked once I'd said "no more"

Etak15 · 29/11/2015 09:10

About 18 months ish with the 3 dd's have always been pregnant with the next by that point and wanted a few months break before starting again with the newborn! DS is almost 1 and still feeding but he likes his food and is such a busy boy he doesn't feed much during the day anymore and goes for 8hrs without when I'm at work, is mostly just at night now.

broomy123 · 29/11/2015 09:21

About. 9 months. My LG had awful allergies and it was becoming impossible to know if it was something I had eaten or her so I stopped. However at 7 months I started giving her a bottle for her afternoon feeds as she was getting very distracted when feeding. The result was me sat with a boob out in a cafe/park/play group while she was staring at a light bulb Hmm worked really well to switch them for us. Just take it a day at a time and stop when it feels right.

Mrswinkler · 29/11/2015 09:21

13 months. After 5 months when I went back to work I expressed for the childminder up to 7 months and then after that just did morning, nighttime feeds and he had formula during the day.

imwithspud · 29/11/2015 09:29

12months with dd1. I'm currently feeding 6month old dd2 and intend on doing the same.

imwithspud · 29/11/2015 09:30

To add, I wanted to avoid faffing with formula if possible, by 12 months I had had enough, dd1 wasn't really interested anymore and I think my milk had pretty much dried up by then anyway.

JasperDamerel · 29/11/2015 09:33

When I was pregnant, I pictured breastfeeding for 9 months, or maybe a year. I had quite a rocky start with DD, but by around 4 months it was so easy that there didn't seem to be any point in stopping. When I was having trouble breastfeeding, I joined a few breastfeeding groups and realised that I could just carry on until DD decided to stop, so that's what we did. If I'd known at the start that DD wouldn't stop until she was 7, I'd have been Blush but it was a day by day thing, and that really was the right time for her. DS stopped when he was 4.

Original poster
artisanroast · 29/11/2015 10:28

this is fab ladies.

Its wonderful to hear what you have all done as we all have our individual journey

xx

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manana21 · 29/11/2015 10:30

10 months and 7 months with DDs 1 & 2, I was done at that point - wanted to be able to enjoy a glass of wine or 2 without worry, and not feel like a moo cow, also the point I returned to FT work with both and travelling with DD2 made bf too hard for me personally to carry on, and DD2 got used to not bf.

Caterina99 · 30/11/2015 05:03

Mix fed pretty much from birth due to low supply. Stopped breastfeeding a few weeks ago at 4.5 months. Really pleased we made it that far, but expressing was driving me crazy!

Kr1stina · 30/11/2015 05:31

3.5 years . Like the OP , we have a strong family history of atopic disease , so it was really for health reasons.

It seems such a shame to stop at 7 months, because by then you've done most of the hard work and the next bit is so much easier . It's bliss being able to settle a stroppy toddler with a feed . Plus you don't seem to get the supply / demand problems that you can get when they are younger .

wonkylegs · 30/11/2015 05:38

7mths - I needed to go back on my meds so I could go back to work and because I was really struggling without them. It also seemed a logical point when I went back to work. DS was mixed fed (boob, expressed bottle, formula) from the start though as I was quite poorly so it was an easy transition. Will probably do something similar with this one but as I've changed meds I may be able to go back on some of them whilst BF which would allow me to go on a little longer.

ThatsNotEvenAWord · 30/11/2015 05:43

17 mo here and DS is still feeding 3x a day and sometimes during the night. Pretty sure I'm going to be feeding him forever tbh 😁

ohthegoats · 30/11/2015 08:02

I stopped at 8 months. It was easy for me, but I didn't enjoy it very much. Giving up gave me my body, my freedom and elements of my sanity back.

Rinceoir · 30/11/2015 08:05

19 months, still on 2/3 feeds a day. She nightweaned herself a few weeks ago which is amazing. Can't see her stopping altogether without a push, but happy to keep going for now.

maamalady · 30/11/2015 08:12

Stopped at 12 months. EBF for six months, then DD started slowly dropping feeds. We did just a bedtime feed for the last month or so, and when she hit 12 months she refused point blank to feed. Job done!

I'm pregnant with DC2 now and hoping breastfeeding goes in similar fashion.

AddictedtoGreys · 30/11/2015 08:12

I stopped when my DS was 8 and half months. I had just had enough by then and he was eating plenty of solids and switched to a couple of bottles of formula easily.

Moohoomeltdown · 30/11/2015 08:24

Started weaning at 9 months and DS had his last feed at 10 months. I stopped as I needed to address sleep issues and he wanted to feed back to sleep when he woke. I needed my body back, my boobs leaked all the time and I'd had enough.

scaredofthecity · 30/11/2015 08:56

I stopped a few weeks ago when DS was 9 months, I REALLY wanted to carry on especially because my son is CMPI. But I've just gone back to work and I'm a nurse working long days and I tried to pump but couldn't so my milk just kinda dried up almost straight away.
Sad times!