what age can you just bf morning and evening before bed, and not express/feed in the day?

[Gemmitygem]

DS is 9 months, has 4 breastfeeds a day (2 of expressed milk cos I work), and 3 full meals, plus drinks of water. He's a very good eater.

I'm wondering when he could move onto just breastfeeds morning and before bed, and cows' milk/goats' milk in the day with his meals, and would I be able to give him enough milk that way? would the supply adjust?

I only just dropped his 10 pm feed, so he goes 7pm to 6 or 6.30 am without anything, so don't want to do anything too drastic to reduce his intake too much. However, I would like to basically stop breastfeeding by one year (or reduce it to just a bit of comfort feeding), as already it's slowly becoming more about comfort and less about food, and I would quite like to think about baby number 2 (worried that periods haven't come back yet).

Any advice gratefully appreciated!

Ours were approaching a year . dd kept up a teatime cup of milk , ds didn't.

i wouldnt give him cows milk yet but you could replace milk with cheese/yogurts etc. are you wanting to stop expressing? when my dd was 6 months and i had gone back to work, she would have breatfeed morning and evening with 1 bottle of EBM in the afternoon, the rest of her calories came from solids. why not try just giving 1 bottle of ebm and replacing the other with a snack of yogurt/fruit etc. HTH

thanks,

yes, he already has quite a lot of cheese and yoghurt.. I could cut it to one bottle of EBM, just worried that my supply would drop, ,but friends have said your supply adjusts...

your supply will adjust slightly especially if you are only expressing enough for one feed, but will still produce enough milk for your LO requirements.