"All gone Mama" How to wean off Breast at 24months!

[nearlyhippy]

Any advice would be most welcome. I have bf my dd now for nearly 2 years. She was allergic to milk (inc goats, couldn't have soya) so it's breast milk and rice milk for mixing with food etc. I weaned onto solids at 6 months and she has a good appetite. I was advised to continue feeding her until she was 2. However, I am quite keen to gently wean her off - she feeds in the morning and at night before bed (but is able to go to sleep on her own without falling asleep on me) it is the day time that is wearing some days she does not fed at all other days she can ask me all day. I offer her an alternative and or tell her there is none in there until I make more! I have in my head that I shall wean her off the day feeds when she is 2 and hope by 2 and a half to have weaned her off completely but have no idea where to start really.....She has given me no indication she wants to stop, the more I try to indicate a stop she becomes more demanding and craves it....

It's very very hard to wean them if they don't want to wean. It might help you to know that it's quite normal for them to want to feed a lot some/all days, and you are not alone in this at all (look for mawbroon's thread from a couple of days ago for evidence of this).

I'm afraid I don't really have any advice on how to wean, as I haven't had the strength to make my dd (2.4 yrs) give up yet, but you may wish to read the book 'How Weaning Happens', which I believe has been recommended on here before.

If you want to stop day feeds, I'd do it definitely (did with DS at about 15mo). We had a few teary days, but then he was used to not feeding during the day when I'm at work. The next one to go (my decision) was the morning feed, which meant we are getting up much earlier (yawn)

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Broken boobs - I did that too . Led to sad wailing but she dealt with it and so did I.

broken boobs - like the idea - dd has started to tell me when it has 'all gone' and so she gets the idea that there is sometimes no milk there.....tonight she is having trouble sleeping and dh is upstairs and she is drinking a bottle of rice milk (just seen time its 10pm!) and she is calm and looks like she will drop off soon.....so maybe we can turn the corner.

I think at this age it's hard to enforce a particular age as a cut off as your DD won't understand this. YOu might find it's easier for you both to lt her self wean?
Or you could try the "don't offer, don't refuse" method?
I think weaning off the day feeds is easier than morning and esp night feeds, which IME are a big comfort.