Boob monster baby

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DD (14 months) was EBF, and still has a breastfeed in the morning, after work, before bed, and once or twice in the night. I know . I work 4 days a week, and on my days off she's started feeding even more; whenever she gets a bit upset she grabs at my top and goes feral until I relent.

I know most of it is for comfort because she eats well enough. I offer her cuddles without breastfeeding, I try to distract her, I get my husband to take her - none of this really works.

I'm ok continuing as we are for now, but I don't think this will be sustainable once I get pregnant again, hopefully later this year. Any ideas on how to manage this? Anyone with similar experience? Or should I continue and try to tandem feed??

She will likely wean off over the next 12 months, especially if you get pregnant. When you get pregnant you milk starts to change toward the later stages and some toddlers will stop for that reason. My dd is just 2 and still loves bf! If you do want her to wean off you just need to keep distracting her as much as you can and offering a replacement, even if it's some kind of treat!

Yeah mine was like that, I got pregnant when she was eleven months. Nursing aversion was pretty bad in the first trimester and I had HG which is controlled now. My milk dried up maybe around 21 weeks and she dry nursed for a bit but doesn't bother now. I'm in third trimester and I have colostrum which she licks off if offered but otherwise she's not bothered. I don't know if she'll tandem feed - not sure if she's totally forgotten how to latch or might regain interest when my milk comes in and she sees a newborn feeding.
There's a supportive Facebook group called pregnant and tandem breastfeeders which is worth joining.
Generally I think there's so much you can't control - you might be ovulating or not, your milk might dry up, or not, your toddler might dry nurse or wean, your toddler might want to tandem feed, or not. The good thing for us has been zero tears or upset at any point. The negative is when she was sick and I wanted to give milk and I couldn't.