When did you stop breastfeeding?

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When to stop breastfeeding?!
DS is 7mo and loves the boobie, just curious how long people fed their DC for and how to wean him onto daytime bottles?

I skipped bottles (ok truth is ds wouldn't take one) - he used a cup from 6mo and stopped bf at 13mo.

Thank you everyone! Just read an article that says only 1% of infant aged 6 months+ are exclusively breast fed! Seems strange!

What does exclusively breast fed mean? My ds has food and many different drinks from 6mo onwards so I wouldn't have said he was exclusively breast fed.
Does it mean "never had formula milk"? Even still I'm not sure if my ds qualifies - we sometimes made porridge with formula even though he never took a bottle.

Ds is almost 16 months, still bf but just night weaned, so we are down to one feed a day which is first thing in the morning, this will be easy to drop as he loves his cup of milk.

28weeks pregnant hence the night weaning. No bottles, just started cows milk in a soft spouted cup at 12 months.

DS self weaned at 2. DD still going and she turned 4 yesterday. I think we are nearing the end with her now though, she sometimes forgets at bedtime and I don't remind her

EBF means no formula at all.

But cow milk ok? or pumped breast milk for all cooking / cereal /porridge?
I don't think I know anyone who didn't use some bits of other milks after 6mo.

27 months. But mixed fed and used bottles from week 2. Went back to work around 11 months and she continued for over 1 year after that.
I mix fed with a nuk teat which was slow flow which may have helped.
I found I lost a lot of weight and ate a lot more during that period. Happy days!

I went back to work on the day my son turned seven months. Despite feeding every couple of hours when I'm there, he fairly happily ignores the bottles of breast milk left for him when I'm out the house for 9 hours at a time... no need to wean!

(dS1 self weaned just short of his 1st birthday)

Still going at 12 months. Would be happy to stop, but DS seems very dependent on the few feeds he does have - especially the one before bed (which he's having right now!). Didn't expect to go on this long but a dairy intolerance meant that formula was a no-go and it's just sort of carried on this way.

But cow milk ok? or pumped breast milk for all cooking / cereal /porridge?
I don't think I know anyone who didn't use some bits of other milks after 6mo.

No. it includes expressed breastmilk but not any other sort of milk. And yes, not many do it hence the low statistic of 1%

DS self weaned at 2.3 he had just been having morning and evening milk from
me for about a year and for the last 4 months I'd say he'd often only ask for it every few days.
I never had a plan as to how long I'd feed for, though I hadn't imagined it would be that long. I did read that BFing until 2 is recommended by the world health organisation, though I assume it's more important/useful if you are in a 3rd world country.
BFing was the easy option for me (and a money saver) I know I was lucky it worked for me. I'd liked to have expressed so I could go out for more than 2h if needed when DS was small but despite professional support and machines and having plenty of milk I couldn't express for toffee.
I gave my son milk in a sippy cup from 12 months. Never bothered with a bottle and worked for us.

18 months so no bottles

I stopped at 8 1/2 months due to going back to work, my DD was still very much a daytime feeder, took two months to get her onto the bottle, offering bottles a few times a day then throwing the contents down the drain when she refused. If I hadn't had to go back to work at that point I would have continued until she was one.

3 months both times. I was going back to work at 4 and 5 months respectively and felt the need to share the responsibility, so purely selfish reasons really. DC slept much better when switched to formula and we instantly gained some sort of routine.

That was full fat cows milk in the sippy cup, though he still had BM morning and night and on request he was eating solids well by then. I can't really remember how long carried in BFing during the day as he is 2.5 now.

I went back to work when DS was 10 months old and during the 3 days I was at work he would take formula in bottles during the day and at bedtime until that was switched to cow's milk at 12 month.

He's now 2 years and 7 months and we stopped breast feeding a few weeks ago.

I thought the statistic was that at 6 months of age only 1% of them have been exclusively breast fed .i.e never having had formula and haven't been weaned early.

Nobody can be exclusively breast fed past 6 months as usually they are having solids too.

What might also be useful is the stat of 34 percent which is the number of people doing any breastfeeding at all at 6 months. This probably sounds low given the responses here, but supposedly we have very low breastfeeding rates in this country.

19months and 3.5 years with my second. No regrets & never used bottles or had to sterilise anything which was brilliant because I'm lazy. I think we introduced sippy cups for water at some point after six months and ended up using them for expressed milk too if I was going out, I do remember getting a bit stressed that they wouldn't drink from a bottle & wishing I'd introduced bottles of expressed milk earlier so they got the hang of it, however all turned out fine!

12 months. I was very ready to stop by then and DS never showed any signs of missing it (was just one bedtime feed at that point). However at 9 months he was nowhere close (late taking to solids).