Breastfeeding - How to wean off

I have been nursing my daughter since birth. She is now 16-months old. I would like to wean her off the nursing for various reasons. We have dropped to 2-3 sessions. One is in the middle of the night when she cries, one after dinner which is mostly for comfort and the one which I want to remove is the first one at 5-5:30am.
We think that she is not eating good quantity in breaskfast because she is full from nursing.
We have tried giving her Sippy cup with milk at 5-5:30 milk call, but she cries her lungs out 😟😟.
What can I do about the early morning feeds?

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Does she drink from a sippy cup during the day? I had to wean my son at 10.5 months because I was pregnant and my supply dropped a lot we tried breast milk in a bottle but he didn't want it so we tried half water half juice and he took that fine. First time holding the bottle as well. He still wouldn't take the milk in the bottle so we did the juice for a week then switched to milk and he took it. He hasn't had juice till recently and he's not a fan which is good actually.

Thanks Jamie!

At 11 months I started introducing whole milk. By the time she was 1 yr she completely rejected my boob and wanted cows milk from the bottle. Maybe I had dried up 🤷‍♀️.

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