To everyone who has successfully weaned a toddler from breastfeeding...

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To the amazing mumsnet community,

Could any veteran mums who have managed to get their boob obsessed toddlers to stop breastfeeding feeding please share their weaning journeys! How did you drop the night feeds with minimal trauma. I am worried about how going cold turkey would affect my DS but I really don't see any other option.

He is approaching 2, he has dropped all feeds apart from the middle of the night comfort feeds which occur 2-3hourly. From one boob only. We are co sleeping and I wouldn't want to stop just for weaning purposes. OH is in a separate bed in the same room and this works for us.

My main reason for weaning is for health purposes ( I have a long term chronic condition) and also TTC.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

OP, I'm going to try a plaster on one nipple tonight and will have to keep taking her back to her room. Every night she sneaks in to my bed and I never know until I wake up.

That means I'll have to put the baby monitor back in and hear out for her door opening.

I don't have a proper date in mind but could do with being totally finished within the next 6 months.
I've promised to go to a party in November and I need to get DS fully weaned and a bit of practice being without me before my mum will agree to babysit while I go.
I'm nervous to leave him but he will be three by then so I'm just being pathetic.

We've gone all day without milk until bedtime where he drank all his cows milk and still wanted bf 🤷🏻‍♀️

I've loved feeding and it's hard to watch him growing up so fast, especially as I can't have a second child but I am looking forward to getting some decent new bras!!

Loads of luck everyone! 🤞🏻

Hi all, sorry to gate-crash on your thread but I'm hoping you might have some advice? I'm trying to go through this with my ds (who is nearly 2.5 years), mostly because he has become lazy (?) and basically has started (gently) gripping my nipples with his teeth while nursing, I think so I can't just take him off without him 'agreeing' to it. As a result I've ended up with a tiny cut on my right nipple that just hasn't fully healed for 3 months. He's down to 2-3 feeds per day (almost always feeding before bed, although not until he falls asleep) sometimes it's only once on that side per day, but I don't know if I could go cold turkey on that side now without having an issue?

We co-slept for a long time and I still usually lie down with him to go to sleep, then many nights he sleeps in his own (double) bed and just wants milk once in the morning, so it's not that bad. But despite loads of times I've tried to explain that he can't use his teeth, it hurts mummy, etc., he keeps doing it. It's frustrating and I don't want to feel this way at the end of the otherwise lovely experiences of breastfeeding him since he was born.

How did it turn out for you, so far? Stories of success or otherwise welcome.