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BLW 11.5 month year old and BFing - help!

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Limelight · 04/01/2012 11:02

Right. So. Just a bit of advice.

BLWing is working marvellously and DD is eating really well. She isn't yet sleeping all the way through till morning (different battle!) but on a good day will BF at bedtime and at about 5am. I've also been giving her a couple of very short feeds during the day (mid morning and mid adternoon) but to be honest this is more out of habit than anything.

I'm self-employed and although things are VERY quiet I am going to need her to stop BFing during the day so that I can be a bit more flexible (I've got a short project coming up soon for example). If I'm completely honest with myself, I would really like to start thinking about stopping BFing altogether. I fed DS until he was 1-ish and I think I'd like a similar timeframe for DD.

When I purée weaned DS, I went through a lot of faffing around with swapping BF feeds to formula feeds one at a time until he eventually stopped. This time, I've just let her get on with it.

So here's where I'm confused. I can't remember how much milk she should be getting now. Her morning / bedtime feeds are going to stick around for a bit longer but should I replace her daytime feeds with formula (and then with cow's milk when she turns 1) or just cut them out altogether? I'm not sure she really needs them to be honest.

Sorry if this is a bit lengthy. I'm just having a moment of indecision and need a bit of guidance!!

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 04/01/2012 11:09

If she is 11.5 months I wouldn't bother with formula, I'd just swap to cow's milk. You might want to drop a feed a week though, this is the advice given so that you don't get mastitis, which you don't want if you've got a project coming up.

So you could swap her mid morning bf for a snack and a drink of milk from a cup this week and do the same with the mid afternoon one a week later.

From 12 months she only needs of milk a day though, so that should be more than covered in the morning, evening and night feeds.

JiltedJohnsJulie · 04/01/2012 11:10

That should be 300ml of milk a day once she's 12 months Blush.

Limelight · 04/01/2012 14:23

That's sort of what I thought. Thanks do much for your help!! Grin

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