Supply question - is only a feed a day sustainable?

[docket]

dd is 11 months and I'm still b/fing her once a day,(she eats well and also has a bottle of formula at night and occasionally a small afternoon bottle).

When I was down to only one feed a day with ds he quickly went off the idea and gave it up. Is this because only one feed a day means your milk supply will inevitably dry up?

tia

I think as long as you still doing some bf your supply should be fine unless your dd starts taking less good luck

Don't know tbh but would have thought not.
BY THE TIME MY 11 MTH WAS DOWN TO TWO FEEDS A DAY 9HIS CHOICE) HE VERY QUICKLY LOST INTEREST.

thanks. am hoping i can carry on for as long as she wants to, don't want it to have to stop iyswim.

I went down to one feed with my two at about this age (this was over 15 years ago btw, so can't remember exact age) - DS went on feeding till 14 months & would have carried on, but I was going into hospital & had to stop. DD at the same stage lost interest quite quickly. So the fact that your DS went off it doesn't necessarily mean your DD will.

Both mine carried on with a feed a day for quite a while 2-3mths. They were around 15mths & 17mths when they finally gave that up. (DS self-weaned, DD had to stop because of work commitments)

docket - I fed a bit more at that stage - probably 3 feeds, but rapidly dropped to just 2, and have fed my dd one feed a day for almost a year now (she's just over 2).

I did just one feed a day in the evenings for a few months with DS before he decided he no longer wanted to bf.

Hard to tell, docket.....long-term, very established breastfeeding can survive on only one feed every so often (ask mothers of four year olds and over...it takes a while for the milk to go completely). But the supply is low. That doesn't seem to matter much - a child of this age is getting a drink, true, but is less concerned about having his hunger and thirst needs met with the bf. Typically, a four year old still bf has breastfed a lot for two to three years.

At 11 months, your supply is established, and can prob survive for a while on one feed a day but a baby/toddler of this age may lose interest because there really isn't much there, and then the milk will go with the dwindling stimulation.

All this sort of stuff is very individual, though.