How do I stop bfing my 15 mth old? Cold turkey or gradually?

[Loucee]

Hi

I can't believe I'm posting this now, when DD was 4 wks old I had a few threads on here desperate to carry on feeding but had so many problems I never imagined I would still be breastfeeding at 15months.

Thing is, I'm 10wks pregnant with DC2 and I feel so ill, utterly drained. DD has a feed first thing, one at 5pm, one before bed and at least one during the night. I work 3 days a wk and on my days off often has a lunch time feed as well.
I am just at the stage now where I don't want to be the only one going to her in the night as I am really feeling ill with this pregnancy.

I really can't see DD allowing me to drop the feeds gradually - she is boobie mad. However I realise going cold turkey isn't a good thing either.

Please, can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks

Lucy
(used to be lucy1977)

my dd has been on cows milk a few months now, she's 16m and i would say - drop the night feed first she really shouldn't need it now anyway, and you may well find that after a few nights she has forgotten about it. (can only hope ) we were a bit mean and started to give water instead of boob (in a tomee tipee) - as it was not what she wanted she began to stop asking for it - first few nights dh went in as obv he has no boobs to tempt her.
had a similar strategy for the day, some 'feeds' you can replace with giving her a cup of milk and others you can just drop, in which ever order feels comfortable. I really think with another on the way you should do this now, to allow yourself time to replenish your forces a bit before the new one. seriously!! your dd should be eating enough now to only need about half a pint of milk a day, surely (?? am i wrong weaning experts?).

thanks for your replies

muminfife - I have been trying to distract DD but she gets herself into a terrible state until I give in and feed her. I never offer her the feeds (except during the night), she gets herself into the position and points and says "ta, ta, ta, ta" and unless I feed her she starts crying and gets worse and worse. I guess I just have to be a bit firmer though.

Ilovedolly, yes I will need to get DH to go into DD during the night but he's never been able to settle her to this day so not sure how much success we're going to have. During the night there's only so much crying and her calling "muuuummmmy" that I can take.

Thanks for your support, I think this is the right thing for my family now so I need to make a start. DH has 2 wks off so this is as good a time as any to do it