How long did you breastfeed for?

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Exactly that really! I'm planning on breastfeeding when our first arrives in April but not to sure how long you're supposed to keep it going?

DS1 a year and DS2 was 16 months.
With DS1 12 years ago I stopped dead on a year and started on bottles of cows milk because I thought that was what you were supposed to do!
With DS2 (3) I listened less to my mother and let him self wean.

I'm still going at two years. I'm a shrivelled prune of a woman and my child is a giant but I can't work out how to stop.

Dd1 - one year

Ds - 15 months. He self-weaned and was one of the signs I was unexpectedly pg with dd2.

Oops and dd2 was 2 years when she stopped.

I found the first 6 weeks with each needed a lot of concentration but after that it was so easy. Worth persevering imo.

My oldest was 23m, child 2 was 21m, child 3 was 2y7m and child 4 recently stopped at 4y3m. When I started I didn’t have a set length I’d feed for but I loved it and my children were very attached so we just carried on.

As long as you and your child want to. My DD was 2.5 when she stopped because I was pregnant which made it uncomfortable and also changed the taste for her. She definitely would have carried on longer otherwise :(

Currently at 3yrs with DD

Just found out I'm expecting.

There's no "should". It's however long you can/want/are happy to.

I was back working part time 2 weeks post partum so pumped. Baby was EBF.