Just a quick survey.How long did you Breastfeed for??

[elliesmoomoo]

My DD is 8 1/2 months old and we both love breastfeeding. I plan to carry on for the foreseeable future and wondered how other mums got on with the "Are you STILL breastfeeding??" comments.

Exclusively for 5 and a half (that half is so important )

DD self-weaned at 9 months since she was then down to two breastfeeds per day.

I was sad that my dd weaned at 9 months. I didn't have a stopping time in mind. I plan to feed baby #2 for a year at least.

ds and dd both 16 mths
both times their choice
I'd have been happ/y/ier to carry on for longer to be honest

a year with ds1 managed to get him completley off the breats at about 14 months, but with ds2 stopped at 9 months when i went back to work!

DD1 - 14 months (exclusively for 5)

DD2 - 16 months (exclusively for 10)

DS - 6 months exclusively

DDs each stopped of their own accord whilst I was pregnant. I stopped bf DS because of recurring thrush. We were tormented for about 2 months and I couldn't take any more WIsh I'd given him longer...

i breastfeed ds for 4 months exclusive... 5 months mixed feeding..

ds1 11mths
ds2 13mths
ds3 is 5months and on the boob this very minute!

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The only 'are you still breastfeeding?' comment I've ever had was from a friend who doesn't have children, at a wedding reception when we were all sitting around with a nice glass or three of champagne, and I realised DD2 could probably do with her evening feed....

....and my mate said 'Are you still breastfeeding? How marvellous!'

12 months 2 weeks with ds1 - until I found out I was pregnant with twins

9 months expressing for twins (ugh)

dd-2 1/2 years
ds-11 months so far (but by his choice,he's down to only 1 feed a day since he was 8 1/2 months. No formula though. Just water and lots of yoghurt and cheese.)

Hats off to you women expressing for months. Must have been bloody exhausting....

still feeding DD 10 months but down to 2 feeds a day

always planned to feed her for a year then straight onto cows milk

pregnant with number 2 now as well would like to give nipples a few months rest inbetween

ds 18 months
dd 17 months

10 weeks as it all went pearshaped - and I so wanted to make it to 6 months. I am going to do everything in my power to bf longer with the next one .... which (hopefully) will be Jan 2006 as I had a positive pregnancy test TODAY!

Will sort out how to access bf counselling as didn't know about it until too late.

You lot are an inspiration!

Congatulations hotmama! Wonder why it went wrong at that relatively late stage? You would have thought things were settled by then?

dd1 - 11 months (until I found out I was pregnant)
dd2 - 12 months

Not meaning to hijack the thread, but any advice from you lot would be sooo gratefully received - though think I should start up a new thread.

Basically, what went wrong was that dd was a very sleepy baby and just wasn't bothered about feeding. Also, I used nipple shields as my nipples were flat, a midwife at the hospital said that she used them for 6 months so I wasn't to feel bad - it can be done! It's only now I realise that the use effects milk supply and that I should had fed dd more frequently and then dd started losing weight so I was 'pressured' into formula feeding - still feel sad about this but gonna get it sorted for the next one!

#1 was unable to suck. Expressed for 3 weeks until sidelined with mastitis and 104 fever.
#2: 17 months.

Yes,hotmama,start a thread or check archives.
This seems to be a really common scenario.
Good luck for next time!You will get some great support here.

Ds1 - 51 weeks! (It was Christmas)
Dd - 11.5 months (It was Christmas!)
Ds2 - 15.5 months (Hanging on for both of us...)

13 months

19 months - didn't feed her in public after about a year though.

DD- 2 weeks (didn't work for various reasons)
DS- 8 and a half months (gave up at 6 months and got really emotional about it so started up again)

2 years 3 months and still going. It's very different to feeding a 8 month old baby, and any sleep missed when he was little is now being given back to me because he doesn't get sick.