How to wean baby off breast?

[jamjar84]

We’ve been trying to get him on the bottle but at most will only take 2oz, and for the past week he’s refusing it. We’re now thinking in offering milk in a cup. He takes water in a tommee tippee sippy cup but most of the time water just dribbles out of his mouth. We also have the munchkin 360 cup but he hasn’t figured out how to drink from it.
Anyone have any tips on getting him off the breast? I’m panicking slightly as going back to work in a month.

How old is he?

7months old, sorry forgot to add that to post.

Do you definitely want to stop breastfeeding? You can still do a feed morning and a couple in the evening then offer milk in a bottle or cup in between?

Think we’ll continue evening feeds. Just need advice on how to get him off the breast as he’s refusing bottle and if with a cup, he dribbles out water when drinking, so reckon it’ll be the same with milk so it’s gonna get very messy and not sure how much he’ll actually be taking in. Any tips?

You have to leave it to someone else as they'll smell your milk and refuse the bottle. Mine never took a bottle though and just adapted to feel around nursery (and thus reverse cycled and were up all night). We got through it though.

At 7 months you could try a sippy cup instead

Just keep offering him the cup and he'll get the hang eventually. If whoever is looking after him offers him food, water, milk, yoghurt etc throughout the day he won't starve at 8 months if you give him a feed in the morning and 2 in the evening.

Just stop offering the breast. Get your other half to offer the milk in the cup/bottle when you are out of the room.

The other half has been offering him the bottle (with me out of view) everyday at one afternoon feed and not been very successful. Like I said before at most 2oz. Suck for a bit then chew on it, and now just by looking at it just refusing it point blank.
So just offer it in a sippy cup, put up with the milk dribbling out and hopefully he’ll get the hang of it?

I don't have any advice but I feel your pain. I am desperate to stop breastfeeding my 9 month old it's making me so sad. He is flat out refusing milk from cups and bottles. Went cold turkey and left him with partner for a day and night and still nothing but a very tired and sad baby :(
He starts nursery in 6 weeks I just hope that will instigate a change naturally.