giving up bfing at 12 months

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am sure this has been posted approximately 1 billion times before. does anyone have tips / advice on how to make the transition as painless as possible? i am not talking physically for me - am prepared for engorgement, am not prepared for giving up chocolate, but hey ho, am talking about poor ds and how he is going to be separated from his breast friends. how did you persuade your dc's not to notice when your norks went on strike?

Me too.

Staines, you are so not ready to give up, nor is your DS, by the sound of it!!

I agree. I was well and truly fed-up with it (and ds was doing it out of habit rather than the love). Would have found it v hard to stop if my heart hadn't been it (which is the reason I find my 15mth old still sleeping with me - and the 3year old too most nights. Not ready to say no!! )

Have to confess that - though utterly pro-breastfeeding - I didn't particularly want to do it past about a year.

Sorted wanted to move on, work more, wear normal bras.

I stopped feeding both of mine during the day at about months. I continued evening feeds with the older one until about 14 months. However, if my husband put her to bed, she didn't need me to feed her.

So, send a man in!

Younger one was a complete pain; used to bite and laugh, so I gave up with her at about 9 months. Just distracted her when she looked like she was getting nuzzly. Sort of feel a bit bad about it, cos 9 months is quite young, but she was such a pain.

Staines how's it going? My LO turned 11 months today and I am still nowhere with replacing any BFs. I think I'll be happy to keep the morning and night feeds, but I'd like to start dropping the daytime in the next few weeks. The other problem is, I think he's having a growth spurt as he has started, annoyingly, adding an extra night feed at about 3am. And he seems properly hungry as well. He is also teething (his first top tooth has cut through this week) so I know it's not a 'typical' BFing time. He is also a real BM baby and will pretty much always take a feed if it's offered.

I think I am like the person who posted above saying they'd planned to stop BFing at 6mths, then 9, then 12!

Hi Cara, it's kind of going okay, he has moved onto cows milk during the day, when with the cm, so i don't express any more, and that's a huge relief. i really only just realised how much i hate expressing!

when he's with me, it's not quite as straightforward, particularly if i really want him to nap and he's not having it. it's just such an easy option.....so some days we drop daytime feeds, some we don't. i think it's just two steps forward, one back. as for night feeds, sometimes he sleeps right through, others he wakes at 4.30 and just can't wait any longer. i am okay with this though, two months ago i thought he'd never, ever sleep through, or give up his boob.

however, having dropped some feeds, i now have extremely greasy hair and the complexion of a 15 year old (spots, still got wrinkles). good luck!!!