How often does your toddler BF?

[JackBauer]

DD2 is 16 months and has had a few colds recently so has been feeding a lot. I was juts thinking about maybe cutting it down a bit and was just curious as to how often other BF their toddlers?
She also won't drink cows milk unless I put ovaltine in it so would rather keep that as a treat!
DD1 went on strike at 13 months but by then she was day and night only and gulps down cows milk like it's going out of fashion!

(am at work so won't be able to pop back on until later)
TIA

DD at 16 months was feeding six or seven times a day . BTW she's now self weaning (at 2.3). When she was ill she was feeding continually though!

Thanks. I know what you mean, it's like having a newborn that can kick you in the back of the head!

She's about the same unless we are out all day but I think she is filling up on BM and I want her to start actually eating her food instead of throwing it at me...

LOL - DD ate everything on her plate for the first time the other day (at the grand age of 27 months). Quite honestly I was getting very cross of her eschewing food in favour of milk but they do grow out of it.

The food thing - I have discovered the trick. You talk about absolutely anything except food and eating at the table. They get far too much attention for bad behaviour at dinner - I know it's fecking irritating to be hit on the head with a carrot - I've been there and the dumping food on the floor thing - ooh yes, we now have a parquet floor in the dining room for this very reason - but that just means 'I'm done' in toddlerese apparently!

If this doesn't work, find another toddler and bring him or her for tea. They are competitive little buggers. DD ate lamb for the first time when her little friend came round and ate some. They fought over the last slice in the end

Hang in there, it does get better - but it takes a really long time.

my 17 mo feeds 3 or 4 times a day and FAR TOO OFTEN at night, which means he never eats breakfast. hey ho!

have you tried hipp organic growing up milk - ready made in a bottle - its got a vanilla flavour in it so she might like it, and healthier than ovaltine.

I got out of the night feeds with DD at 10 months by delaying them ten minutes every three nights - it took two months to get her to 6am. I just used to rock her and sing to her till it was time and then fed her. She cottoned on fairly quickly that she would get fed, in about ten minutes and dutifully woke up later and later. So we had the 10pm feed and then the 6am feed by the time she was 12 months old. But I then got pregnant because she was sleeping through, so it's not without risks .

As often as I let her! At that age it was too many times to count - she liked to be permanently attached when teething. She's 3 on Sunday and I've recently tried to cut her back to twice a day, as I'm tandem feeding and it was getting frankly ridiculous!

I have also today discovered how to get her to eat her food. All you need to do is get her to watch Dora constantly because she is housebound due to snow, and then tell her that if she doesn't eat her broccoli then Swiper will swipe it .

I don't remember exactly how much ds was feeding at 16 months, but it was a lot, really a lot, and on demand.

He is 3.2yo now, and has recently cut down to about 5 feeds in 24hrs, which now feels like not very many compared to what he was on before.

I have had various unsuccessful attempts at cutting down with ds at different stages and have come to the conclusion that some of them need it more than others and ds is one of those who need it more. I felt that it wasn't worth the stress on us both and it was easier just to accept it and let him feed on demand.

I was (and quite frankly still am) mystified about the just feeding morning and night thing!!!

mawbroon - dd dropped morning and night feeds first I think it's code for 'I only sit down at these times and my child falls off in between times when they go for a drive by latch '

Thanks for advice, DD1 is 3 tomorrow, so I know all about ignoring meal tantrums, Dh cold use some help though

I was at work all day yesterday and she didn't have a feed until I got back at 5, and ate every morsel offered to her. TOday I fed her first thing, again at 9ish and then she went for her nap with asking for one, so I think she is feeling better.
She does sleep through so not a problem there.
I don't mind feeding her, dont get me wrong, it's just that sopmetimes she latches for a few seconds and spends another 5 minutes popping on and off and blowing raspberries on my boobs, so I don't thin she needs it, she just wants a cuddle!

Oh dear, are you having a 'I'm just your plaything' day today? I feel like that quite often. DD woke at 4am this morning and said 'I want some booby mummy' then continually poked me in the eye till I took her off and then wailed for an hour

My DH is also shite at managing food troubles. His answer: offer her chocolate if she eats anything.

is it that obvious! She wasn't too bad today, she was poking down my top calling ('Baaabeeee, where you?') which is annoying but I cunningly distracted her with a shiny thing

DH is worse than that, he gets very stern and gives her a look, which makes her dissolve into tears and therefore unable to eat anything.
He ocne said 'Mummy has spent a long time cooking that so it is rude not to eat it'
to which she repleid (through a haze of tears and snot
'I'm sorry mummy, but I just think it's yuck'

mawbroon the "morning and night" thing happened for us pretty much as soon as I returned to work - if I'd been able to stay off I'm pretty sure dd would be feeding more - but I guess that's how it happens for a lot of people.

LOL - DD said 'don't like this - looks like nappy' (ie shit) the other day of DH's casserole.

She also announced the guy in Majestic 'this is daddy milk' (pointing at wine) 'daddy doesn't like vegetables so he drinks wine instead'.