How to drop the bedtime BF?

[dairymoo]

My DTs are 14mo and I currently BF them first thing in the morning and at bedtime. I am now keen to drop the bedtime feed but as my DH is rarely home in time to put the LOs to bed it's going to have to be all down to me. Unfortunately, as there are two of them, cuddling them to sleep isn't really an option. I was thinking about possibly changing their routine so that they have a bath, then some milk (from a sippy cup) before a story, then go to bed. They go down for naps awake and sometimes in the evening too (although most of the time they fall asleep while I am feeding them) so hopefully this won't be an issue.

I guess I'm just looking for anyone else's experience of dropping this feed - and how you went about it. Thanks

That's pretty much what we did with dd - she stopped feeding to sleep about 15 months - I did carry on bfing her after bath for a few months more, but then I did what you did - warm milk in sippy cup, two stories, brush teeth and bed - we told her a few times what was going to happen, etc, and it worked better than I'd expected.

Kudos for bf-ing twins to 14 months!

Thanks for replying Habbibu. I am kind of hoping that they stop feeding to sleep soon. Maybe when they get used to only having one nap a day - they've recently dropped morning one are are generally exhausted by bedtime - as I think that will make the transition easier.

Elizabeth Pantley's No Cry Sleep Solution has some useful tips for stopping feeding to sleep. dd stopping was a bit of a mixed blessing when her sleep got screwed up in the middle of the night, and when I fed her she acted like I'd just injected espresso straight into the vein...

Lol - yes, it def does have its advantages for those midnight wakings, that is if you don't get the espresso injection reaction!!