Breastfeeding

We are still nursing at 2 years and 4 months… I don’t know how to stop. Lol

I am. He’s still very attached. It’s a lot of the day and night. Tbh it’s really getting hard on my mental health but I don’t know how to stop it

Just started again my newest baby is 2 months but to stop if you put cabbage leaves in your breast it will start to dry up your milk

I stopped at 2.5 months. He started teething, and it hurt. If you wanna stop, I'd recommend introducing a bottle ween them off that way. You can also ask your ob for help with that.

Haven’t completely stopped but some days are 0x to max 2x now. I initially weaned months ago to no night feeds so I could sleep & told him we can do it at 6am, which extended to 7am. Slowly cut out more feeds throughout the day and now it’s just after bathtime (if he remembers to ask) and in the morning. I’ve been getting up earlier than him bc he’s been sleeping in longer so if I get ready and am not in bed with him he tends to not ask for the morning boobie. Also made a rule no boobie after brushing teeth & I’ve been working more this week than normal covering shifts so by the time I get home it’s late & his teeth are already brushed so sometimes he won’t nurse at all that day. I offer water as an alternative. Hopefully soon he’ll be off 100%!

Still breastfeeding and I have no idea how to stop 😅

OMG thank you ladies I taught I was the Only one lol. I have tried to lose breastfeeding and it can be a challenge. My daughter only gets few breast milk in the morning and then gets a cup of whole milk. By the night it is breastfeeding for a little bit less than 30 min. I try to give her less and less breast milk.

I slowly weaned and we stopped completely in January a little after she turned two. I never thought she’d wean but she took to it really well! We started with night weaning and my husband would get her if she woke up in the middle of the night (sometimes I’d have to get her but I just stayed firm with no mommy milk until the sun comes up). Occasionally we’d have to give her a snack in the middle of the night if she was just inconsolable and asking for milk, but she got over that pretty quickly. For naps we started snuggling on the couch and watching Hey Bear instead of nursing. I always told her “mommy’s milk won’t last forever but my love will and I love you more are more each day.” I would tell her leading up to our last time “mommy’s milk is leaving in [x amount of time].” Our very last time I told her it was our last time nursing (definitely cried but it was relieving too), she nodded her head and I just soaked it in and cuddled her. She asked for milk a few times after that and

I told her my milk wasn’t there anymore; but it was almost like she was just testing me. She just kinda shrugged like “aww man, well it was worth a shot” lol. I think just telling her how much longer milk would be there for and reassuring her I’d always be there for her helped a lot (my husband was a huge help too; idk how I would have done night weaning alone). Now she just asks to snuggle all the time and it’s so sweet! No idea where she got this from, but sometimes now she’ll stick a toy down my shirt and say “in mommy tit! In tits!” and giggle. I never called them tits lol but it’s hilarious. I used to not be able to let her see my boobs or she’d want to nurse; now she just says “mommy tits!” 😂

@Jenna awww that is so sweet. Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope my daughter weans breastfeeding soon. Now that I am potty training her hopefully she stops. Is a bit of a challenge lol but I have to make an effort

@Iris It was definitely challenging but got easier as we went. I think weaning slowly helped her a lot. We started potty training while we were weaning too so that might have also helped! Stay strong; you got this mama!

So we stopped at 2yr 2w old. Two weeks before, I started telling her my boobies were tired to asleep. And they’ll wake up for her bedtime so she can have some. So she got the gist of it after a few days and realized that “momilk” as she called it… was only for bedtime. Then the day came where we stopped completely… I told her she drank it all and that there was no more. The first night was really tough, and my fiancee did bedtime so I wouldn’t give into temptation and just start nursing her. The next few days she asked for it a couple of times, but every time… I just told her “you drank it all baby” And she would cry for a second and just hold me and go “there’s no more momilk because I drank it?” And I would tell her yes. She would snuggle my chest for a second and then get up to do whatever it was she wanted to go do. Nursing was taking a toll on my mental health. I felt like I couldn’t do anything at all. It has been such a positive change. Just make sure you’re ready ❤️

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I forgot where I saw it, BUT someone suggested books about weaning. 🤦‍♀️ like DUH - my girl LOVES books... definitely buying some and I'll let y'all know how it goes 😅 potty books got her interested in the potty so hopefully weaning books will help her understand 🙏

@Jessica thank you. I'll try that ☺️

@Jessica I forgot about this but we read Sally Weans From Night Nursing. I think definitely helped in our weaning!