Breastfeeding or rather forced stopping

[Pumpernickle12]

Hi I am done with breastfeeding, I have done it for 21 months and my little one doesn't show any signs of weaning by herself. I have tried saying no/bribes etc

I was thinking if I took natural supplements to dry my milk

Has anyone done this successfully or do they still dry feed??

It might be easier on you both to drop one feed at a time. Instead of doing that feed, distract/give snacks/offer whole milk in a cup if before bed. After a week or so, do the same with another feed. This is what I did with my dd around the same age.

As well as the above I also limited the length of the feeds. So "you can feed for 10 mins/ 2 mins/ 10 seconds". And then towards the end countdown and said "that's it now! Do you want to play/snack/cuddle". I fully stopped at 21 months but I had wanted to stop from about 12 months, it was just easy to keep bf. Once she got that bit older she could understand a little bit more which helped.

I know a friend who just put pickled juice on her breasts and the toddler went cold Turkey after tasting the sour nipples. My friend said she spoke to loads of specialists on how to wean her off and went old school after her grandma recommended putting a sour tasting food on the nipples. I'm 4 months behind you still bf and my lo loves sour tastes so not sure how I can wean the lo when the time comes. I shall be following your thread with interest. Good luck.

@pinkcheesecake

I know a friend who just put pickled juice on her breasts and the toddler went cold Turkey after tasting the sour nipples. My friend said she spoke to loads of specialists on how to wean her off and went old school after her grandma recommended putting a sour tasting food on the nipples. I'm 4 months behind you still bf and my lo loves sour tastes so not sure how I can wean the lo when the time comes. I shall be following your thread with interest. Good luck.

Lol mine also likes marmite, pickles onions and mustard so I think that's out of the question lol

I have done the time thing, dropping feeds aren't really an option as they're not fixed it's more on demand

It's just I've heard sage tea dries mix up naturally which is great but if she just comforts dry feeds then I'm stuffed

I spoke to a lady who lived in another country when she had her first baby and was given tablets to dry up her milk.

DD was losing interest, although older (nearly 3). I had put lanisoh cream on as I was also feeding a newborn, and she refused to feed again.

@BendingSpoons

I spoke to a lady who lived in another country when she had her first baby and was given tablets to dry up her milk.

DD was losing interest, although older (nearly 3). I had put lanisoh cream on as I was also feeding a newborn, and she refused to feed again.

Thank you, I could put Tabasco on my nipples and she would power her way through lol

It's just hard when she wants comfort or is unwell (she has a really tough cold at the moment) and although I'm ready to stop I worry what happens if she gets ill (i.e coronavirus) and needs that boob support and I've artificially cut the milk train.

Hi again, after reading this thread I thought let me try. Basically I mixed loads of decaf coffee grains into a plate, added water and put a table spoon of bicarbonate soda and mixed it. Applied it on my nipples and dc didn't like the taste and hasn't asked for it since applying it this morning. So it's been a total of 8 hours without bf session.

I'm literally topless now with boobs out and he still isn't interested 🥳😭🤣

I started making rules about when she could nurse. Say things like, you can’t nurse now, but you can before nap. Whatever timing works for you. I found that worked better than shortening the sessions themselves.

Another thing that helped to drop sessions was offering a snack while cuddling on the sofa.

I'd also go with reducing feeds (currently doing this with Ds2 as I'm pregnant and don't fancy tandem feeding again).

I also fed on demand so spent a month refusing every other feed request. Now we're onorning, lunch and bedtime feeds. Goes back to nursery in a week so will drop lunch next and so on.

I tried shortening feeds with Ds1 when Ds2 was about 6m (I'd totally had it trying to feed them both) and it didn't work for us. I ended up feeling resentful at even really short feeds and he clearly found it distressing to be restricted in that way.

Good luck whatever you choose to try

I stopped offering, then tried to delay each feed (we'll just do X first), then stopped when we were away on holiday as we didn't have the usual cues / routine or places where we had previously fed.