Did your dc naturally wean off breast?

[Lizbiz89]

I've been ebf my 3rd baby. First 2 were both and formula by 6 months. My ds is now nearly 10 months and I've noticed his feeds starting to go down quite a lot. Obviously it's because he's now eating 3 meals a day and has a great appetite. Just wondering if this is the beginning of the end of the road for us. I'm happy to go with the flow but I'd be interested to know people's experiencing with it? Was a natural progression or did you have to intervene?

Sorry I don't know the answer... My DS is 8 months and breastfed too so I'm following with interest.

Well done on getting to 10 months!

How many feeds are you doing per 24 hours now? My DS is still on about 8.

Naturally cut down and completely stopped at 19months, the pre bed feed stayed for the longest but one night I just said ‘would you rather just a cuddle’ and he did and that was that never asked for it again

Yes but not until nearly 3. By that point we had only been at 2 feeds a day (morning & bedtime) for probably 18 months & then just morning; one morning he woke up and was super excited to see his friends so didn’t ask for a feed & that was it. It was a lovely end.

Nope. I weaned mine at 2.5 years, but a year later I am sure he'd latch on if I gave him the opportunity!!! He's a boob man!

My little one really took to food and the feeds became v short - by the time she was one she was having one or two 5min feeds a day and we just stopped with no fanfare and it was fine ! I know many people with different journeys though that's just my experience

I had to go cold turkey with my daughter when she was 18 months old. I was back at work from her being 9 months and for 9 torturous months she was feeding non stop at night as she couldn't feed during the day. Had to put a stop to it so we both could sleep. Took about 2 nights of no feeds for her to get over it, then she started sleeping through!

Nope. DD1 was 2.5 when I forced the issue. She’s a (lovely) but clingy thing and I suspect she’d be still going now at 4 if I’d let her.

ds gradually cut down, and at 2.5 years he was having only one feed straight before bed. I forgot about it one day, he didn't ask, and that was the end of it.

Nope, I had to cut off my first when she was 18 months and I got pregnant and had to be on non breastfeeding compatible aspirin

second child, I slowly weaned him off at 22 months because I just got sick of breastfeeding for 3 and a bit years

I've just gone with the flow and both my 3.5 year old and 14 month old both still feed, so no natural weaning here. Some people think breastfeeding a 3.5 year old is gross, but I couldn't give a crap - she still likes a feed before bed and in the morning and I don't have a problem feeding her

Mine did not. I weaned him off at just over 2 because he was showing no signs of wanting to stop. I'd cut down from 3 feeds a day to just 1 at that point and had to deliberately wean him from each of those too. And this was despite him being in nursery 4 days a week since 11 months.

Several months later and he will still shout "milk from mummy!" at awkward times and I think he misses it.

DD was gradually weaned off by me, just feeding in the evening and first thing and then just evening and then stopped.

DS - it was like a switch flicked at 10 months. Wouldn’t go near me! I was totally taken by surprise and was left in some discomfort 😂

Mine didn't, I made him stop when he was 3 and a bit because I was pregnant and my boobs hurt (and he didn't need the milk by that point)!

DS dropped his last breastfeed quite naturally at around 12 months, he was otherwise weaned by then and ate very well. One day he just didn't do it and slept through. By then, the sole feed was an early morning one and I suspect he would rather sleep in!

I was a little sad in fact, I had enjoyed breastfeeding very much once it was established, it was a lovely experience. I do know it's not the same for everyone, some choose not to do it and we were perhaps luckier than others.

My first weaned herself when I was about 3mo pregnant, said the milk tasted yuk. She was a few months past 2. Second I had to cut it when she was almost 4. Feeds were infrequent then but I realised she’d never stop unless I told her it had run out!

I was ready to be done at 3. Dd was not, so I did have to actively wean.

My son eats three meals a day plus snacks. He’s 14 months old now and I still breastfeed him around 3 times a day, sometimes more. He mostly uses it for comfort and getting to sleep now. He’s showing no signs of wanting to stop yet. Every baby is different though.

Yes all of mine did somewhere between 18 and 24 months. It was easy. I didn't force it. There were no tears. I just started putting them off or distracting them.

No. Went cold turkey at 25 months due to pain when feeding (probably the latch went off but I had enough by then anyway). Told the little one that the boob was sick, he cried maybe 1-2 times and then was absolutely fine without it

Yes, he lost interest at 18 months.

By then he was happily eating bananas, sweet corn and pea fritters and gravy rice so it wasn't a problem.

Yep, my son was down to 3 feeds a day by the time he turned 1 (first thing, before his afternoon nap and before bed) and he dropped his final feed (the morning one) at 16 months. I would offer but he wasn't at all interested so I took that as a sign that we were all done!

At 2 years old it was just a before bed feed for my DD. One night her dad randomly did her bedtime routine and she went down without a feed easily so I asked him to do it the next few nights too. On the 4th night she asked for milk and I just said, "Oh, mummy's milk is all finished now" and she accepted it. Before that I was thinking we were going to go through hell trying to stop!

I wouldn’t call it entirely natural as me going back to work at 12 months forced feeds during the day to stop. I didn’t used to feed to sleep for either child but would give them one feed before they went to bed - this stopped around 14-16 months for them both. Neither seemed particularly bothered at one point so I stopped offering and they still went to sleep happily

Nope. I had to force her to stop.

I struggled with breastfeeding and had to give top up formula. I'm not really sure how much breast milk my child ever got from me. But, she loved nursing. I stopped it during the day when she was about 2 but let her nurse in the night if she woke up. I forced her to stop that at 5. Literally her 5th birthday, which i'd warned her for weeks is when we were stopping. She would have kept going but I felt she was too old and it was just annoying for me by then!

Just gradually fed less with my 2 and replaced breast feeds with food and a cup of milk. I dropped the last feed at night last. Both of them stopped wanting a first thing in the morning feed naturally, around 11/12 months.