Desperate to stop breastfeeding my 17 month old

[AllyJU]

My 17 month old daughter refuses to stop breastfeeding. During the day, when she doesn't see me she is fine, but the minute I walk through the door we have a battle to distract her from wanting to feed. She pulls at my top and shoves her hand in pinching my nipple and screams until she gets what she wants. We are able to put her down to sleep without feeding her, however, she will wake at least twice in the night, crying hysterically until I feed her again. (If I try to ignore her, she just gets more and more hysterical) Then she will lie next to me in bed sucking and crying everytime I try to pull away. (last night she was sucking constantly for 2 hours).
I know that my milk supply isn't as it was, and that I don't really think that she is doing it because she is hungry, as we make sure she has a full tummy before going to bed. She is just using me as a dummy.
Please can anyone help?

[Gentlebreeze21]

My dd started nursery at 9 months when I started to work. She wasn't accepting much food and refused to eat at nursery, up until now also refuses fresh milk and formula ( tried many brands).

I compensated by feeding her through the night and after nursery.

Now 4 months later at 13 months she is underweight and Dr says stop breastfeeding.

As she refuses to eat at nursery I'm not convinced that stopping will encourage her to eat- she'd rather starve than eat at nursery.

At the times I tried weaning through the night she'd scream endlesslly until I gave in.

She will eat about a cup of plain yoghurt through the day. I am forced to give her pediavit multivitamins as she's clearly not getting what she needs from 90% breast milk a day at her age.

Any advice?

Thanks

[Diannec]

Would love to know how all the moms in original thread finally quit bfeeding! I have a 16 mth old and would love to stop now but the guilt is always staring me in the face.co-sleeping also she's not too bad with going off without it but still wakes for it I do offer cup of water and works sometimes but not always .. Prob have to do cold turkey but just hate the thoughts of refusing when she knows it's right there!