Stopping breastfeeding

My little girl and I have done so well on our breastfeeding journey, despite some hurdles with her weight - she’s now 5 months. I largely exclusively breastfeed except for her last bottle before bed which is formula (or expressed milk). I’m starting to feel quite conflicted about whether I want to carry on breastfeeding but I don’t want to regret stopping and feel our journey was cut short. I plan to continue breastfeeding to the 6 month mark and I’m unsure whether, at that point, I want to stop. I think my main concern is not having breastfeeding to settle my baby as the boobs seem to solve anything and everything.

I was hoping to hear other’s experiences of weaning to formula and how the change to formula was for them.

Thanks very much

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I’m having this exact battle in my mind, I’ve EBF for 5 months but now my baby will only settle for a sleep when on the boob, so I want to start bottle feeding but then I think I’ve come this far, why stop now when we’re gonna start weaning in 2 weeks time! But feeding to sleep is draining me mentally

I’m also considering formula feeding from 6 months. Breastfeeding hasn’t been easy and I also have the problem of my 2yo daughter having a hard time sharing my attention with the baby. I think if I didn’t breastfeed then at least their dad would be able to do some feeds and I wouldn’t be attached to the baby 24/7 and could spend more one to one time with our daughter. It’s not that I want to spend less time with the baby, but our daughter’s behaviour has been quite challenging and I think if I had more time with her then she would know she’s loved and make better choices with her behaviour.

Following, I'm keen to start reducing BF down when I begin weaning and start replacing a feed at a time with another bottle. Not sure how that works with supply though? We already give a formula bottle at bedtime but he's awake every few hours

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