BLW- ds is now one and i want to speed him up a bit

[spongecake]

my ds bf morning and when he is tired, esp after a bath at night. he eats 4/5 meals plus snacks a day, and doesn't eat much but is always ready for a little something.
he wakes in the night and is extremely tearful and insistent to bf. he doesn't need to bf to sleep in the day, if i can distract him enough.

i would like to stop bf now, i like it, but wld like to try for another baby! he is very insistent and i am not sure how to handle the demanding- crying/ pointing- i have always fed on demand so have no idea how to carry on- do i stop altogether or??

sorry for the long post, but any tips and advice really welcome. i am a sahm and my husband works v long hours, so i need to be able to manage this mostly alone and not much stress!

I am in a similar position to you (although not trying for another baby) in that DS3 is 13 months, a BKW baby and loves his mummy milk.

IIRC, with DS2, I more or less went cold turkey on the stopping Bfeeding at about this age. We went out for the day and were late home so he was asleep when we got home and I just put him to bed. When he woke in the night I sent DH into him for a couple of nights. It didn't take long.

On the BLW front, I would suggest that he may eat more when he is not having so much breastmilk. Also, DS3 is nearly using a spoon on his own whihc I hope will mean he will eat more at meal times.

HTH

BLW baby obviously

Spongecake - you don't have to give up bf if you get pregnant - do a search on 'tandem feeding' on here .

Some links on Kellymom on tandem feeding, in case it helps.

hi there
i keep being told it is nigh on impossible to get pgnt if bf, but we try anyway

the main thing is how to deal with ds as he is used to bf on demand and i find it very hard to distract him.