DD is 3 years old now and still breastfeeding

[Herbiethecat]

DD has just turned 3 and is still a milk monster. She loves having 'side' and I swear she would ideally like me to walk round half naked all day so she could help herself As it is it tends to be 2-3 x/day.

I'm really chuffed as we had such a bad start - an emergency GA section and a night on the HDU, milk late coming in, a 14% weight loss by day 10 and advice to formula top up which we did for several weeks.

And yet several millennia constantly feeding on the sofa later, it ended up working out.

So - yay!

And - ironically, given that I'm mainly celebrating here - someone please tell me that she WILL decide to stop at some point?!

she'll stop when she goes to school unless she gets you to squeeze your nork through the railings at break time

Glad you two are happy doing what is best

well done!

Well done you.

I'm another one who got off to a rocky start and briefly topped up, DD will be 3 in 2 weeks and she still feeds twice a day. No idea how you get to stop, lately I've managed to distract her the odd bedtime but it seems nothing ever is going to distract her from her morning "boobie" , it's her first word when she wakes up.

I was always hoping that dd1 would stop of her own accord. Then when she was 3.5 i was pg. that'll do it I thought - bit nooooo it carried on. Then I felt I couldn't ask her to stop because I didn't want her to feel pushed out by the new baby.

When the baby was born, I was in hospital for 3 days (first time away from her). She was fine, and then she tried it when I came home and spat it out as it was 'yucky' (colostrum). She tried it a couple of times after but it was still tasted of 'baby's milk'. As she was nearly 4 by that time, I decided that it was best to encourage her not to try again and to accept that she did not need it any more.

I'm actually a bit about the way it happened. She didn't want to stop, and it was a bit abrupt. I still feel tearful now when I think about it. It's like I took something away from her. Anyway, not sure what to do if you lo never wants to give up. A friend of mine had to persuade her 5 year old - so stopping is not automatic. I guess I would have preferred a more gradual process.

Thanks all - though as breastfeeding gets easier and easier it seems funny to be congratulated in a way Now getting through the first 3 MONTHS was hard

Suzywong - morning and night will still fit around school (eek!)

Brangelina - glad you made it though the hard part too

Fondant - argh - you are blowing my theory that she will just pack it in in the next few months...