How to stop breast feeding my 12 month old?

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I'm ready to stop - he isn't and that's fine. I can carry on for a while longer.

But my question is how do I prepare to stop? He's so reliant on it. I know it's going to be a gradual process.

I also have the problem of he will not have full fat cows milk. Doesn't matter how I try give him it. Warm/cold, out of different cups, none of it makes a difference. He just won't have it. Tried formula too with the same result.

Any ideas? He's my third baby but didn't have an issue stopping bf with my other 2.

Thanks

Bumping for you! Would also love to know if anyone has experienced weaning a boob monster 🤦‍♀️

I started by dropping feeds until we were only nursing first thing in the morning and last thing and night.
It petered out on its own soon after this, I never offered and baby stopped asking (lucky!)

Will baby eat milk on cereal? Yoghurt, cheese, home made shakes/smoothies? Mine was never very keen on milk in a cup so I tried to get dairy in other forms - NHS advice is 350ml or 2 portions of dairy food a day so not a huge amount.

Good luck!

Will he drink expressed breast milk? If so, can you mix a little cows milk in to expressed milk, and gradually increase the amount of cows milk and reduce EBM. I did this with a (much younger) baby who had to switch to formula which she was not keen on initially.

Ahh thanks for the replies! I'm going to try with the breast milk and cows milk together. We are moving house next week which is incredibly stressful and I've decided to continue with the demanding bf until we are settled and then make a real start on dropping the feeding. He's constantly waking every 2 hours and his tantrums are quite bad which I'm putting down to tiredness and the fact he isn't sleeping through without a feed. Which is just for comfort as he doesn't even need a feed.....

He's well and truly walking now which I thought may have helped the sleep situation but it hasn't

Oh the joys.