How often/much did you breastfeed your 1yr+ old?

[JustAnotherUserinParadise]

Sort of inspired by another thread, I'm curious!
If you breastfed your baby past the age of one, how much were they having at this point?

My DD is 11 months, and she was exclusively breastfed until 9 months and now has 2 x 4/5oz bottles of formula during the day (introduced as she's now at nursery 3 days a week and it'll be going up to 4 days soon).

She generally has a ~10 min breastfeed first thing in the morning and sometimes one between 9-11pm, but that's it now. We give her a bottle before bed as I am sometimes out for work in the evening and we needed my DH to be able to do it!

She slept through last night so missed the night one, and doesn't seem super fussed about missing the morning one either tbh so I don't feel like it's going to carry on much longer.

I have a 19 month old. Still feeds morning and night, both for about 15 minutes. I wouldn't say she needs it for nutrition, it is comforting for both of us. I can't knock it. She is hardly ever ill and I think it is because she steals all my antibodies.

I used to do morning, before bed, occasionally if DS woke up at night, and if I was putting him down for a nap - if someone else was doing it they'd give him cow's milk instead and that was fine.

It was a fairly easy process for us to cut this down to just the morning feed and then cut that one out completely by 17 months. DS didn't seem massively fussed by it. I think toddlers and mums are all different when it comes to this, though.

21 month old one feed in the morning and one in evening before bath

3 year old … 10-20 times in 24 hrs. Has basically not reduced feeds at all since day one! Starting to feel a little fed up now. Am trying to reduce with absolutely no success

I was just about the post almost identical to LuckyKitty. Though possibly more than 10-20 per day!

When I went back to work at about 10 months I reduced to three feeds (first thing, when I got home and before bed). By 1 I’m pretty sure I’d dropped the feed when I got home. By 18 months we just had the bedtime feed and the DH whisked them off to his DParents for a week at 2 to complete weaning. With both DSs.

21mo, before bed, when he wakes in the morning and 0-3 times in between depending on how often he wakes. It’s rarely zero and usually 2-3. Feeds are usually 20 mins or less although a lot of that is him messaging about.

I want to stop soon but no idea how.

It’s basically every time I sit down, stop moving, or any time point in between. I must say “wait a minute” or “let’s have milky later” or “no more milky” about a thousand times a day ! I do love it though, it been a great journey

Honestly, I have no idea. I bf on demand, sometimes it would be 5 times a day/night, sometimes more.
Dc is 2 now and still bf but it’s once or twice a day with some quick comfort suckling in between!

15 month old here and probably 5 over night feeds to get her back to sleep, definitely need to cut these out!
And then between 3 and 6 during waking hours depending on how well she's eaten. But she won't touch formula, bottles, even chocolate milk is a no go so I'm reluctant to stop till she is better with food etc. Although I do wonder if she had less milk, she'd eat better! Think I'm going to try and stop the feeds in the night a d see what happens in the day

At 12m 5-6 times a day. By 2yo 2-3 times a day. I went back to work at 7m though so he was fine with formula or expressed milk when I wasn't there.

Ds1&2 fed 10+ times a day between 1and2yrs, maybe slightly less after 2 and I stopped feeding them both (my choice) by 3.

DS3 is coming up 10m and feeds less already. Don't think I'm doing anything different, he's just less fussed

Interesting thanks everyone! I can't believe there's such a broad range!
Does anyone know if there's a minimum amount to get the immunity benefits etc? Or is one small feed every 24 hours enough?

Did a bedtime (go-the-furk-to-sleep) one until about 17mths, because it worked so well as a sedative..... The morning one stopped around 13 mths, because I was going back to work and she was going to nursery and I didn't have time in the mornings.

Too many times to count. We went into lockdown so I was forced to "work from home" and he wanted to be glued to me at all times. He was fine with just water and food during the day when I left him when he was 11 months though.

Babies are all very different.

I’m back at work full time, DD is 14 months.

On work days I feed her before bed and then maybe 2 night feeds (the last of which is like on off comfort sucking from about 5.30 til we get up at 6.30, so no morning feed as such). At weekends she will feed through the day including before both naps. Somehow my supply seems to cope with this!

Twice a day, once a day after 24 months. She didn't drink any other milk but ate dairy products a couple of times a day.

Twice a day at 12 months. Went to once a day at 13 months and stopped at 14 months. X2.