gentle weaning ideas off bf?

[rosa7]

Hi there, my ds is almost 1 I have him down to one feed a day, just at bedtime, but there is a very strong comfort association there and he got really upset when I tried to skip it. I don't really want to replace it with a bottle as I have the other feeds as I got away without this with dd... Any tips out there for getting rid of that last feed with a 1 year old? Thank you Rosa

Just a few ideas:

Could you try feeding him at an earlier point in the bedtime routine? That way there may be less association between bf and bed.

Could your dp/dh put him to bed instead?

Maybe try a milky pudding/supper.

Thanks for your great ideas! I'm just going with the flow for now. It feels too harsh taking away this comfort from him as he has signalled its really important to him

I agree with seeing whether he'll go down with your DH - this is how we dropped the bedtime one (and indeed the overnight ones).

We didn't wean DS1 off the boob until he was just over 2 years, so world of a difference, but when he was 12 months old we started introducing a cup of cows milk during the day and once he was taking that, I'd occassionally have a night out and DH would just offer him the cup of cows milk at bedtime and he'd take it happily. However, as soon as I was back in the picture, he wanted me (and i wasn't fussed as I wasn't wanting to wean then), but I was thinking if you got him to take the cup of milk at night sometimes you could increase the frequency (might mean you nipping out at bedtime) and get him to take it more and more?

Not a tested idea, just a thought :-)