Hi dear mamas. A question for breastfeeding mamas who have breastfed beyond 12 months please.

I have reduced my 17 months old breast feeds to two per day (when she wakes up and before she goes to sleep at night) but can’t see how to progress from here - it seems impossible to reduce further. Any tips/ advice would be so much appreciated.

PS. I don’t even think that I have much milk left, if any - but not sure.

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You could drop the morning feed, get up and have a snack and a drink, distract from the boob. I actually found dropping feeds easier than I expected it only took a few days and she completely stopped asking for the feed we dropped.
Obviously only if you’re ready to drop the feeds.
We stopped around 16/17 months x

I was in the same situation, first dropped the feed before night-time by changing our routine introducing distractions such as reading a book or play in her room and offering water before sleep, after few days she stopped asking. The morning feed was more difficult to drop because she normally wakes up hungry and wants food straight away, so I took yogurt pouches with me when waking her up and offered those when she would pull my top, took about 2 weeks or so before she stopped pulling me. I did spoke with her before dropping each feed and tried to explain that mummy doesn’t have any more milk and she needs food to grow big and strong like daddy (she was 14 months old when we started to drop the feeds)

I dropped the morning feed by giving my son a banana first thing in the morning - after a few days he started asking for nana when I went into his room in the morning so that’s been pretty easy. Night feeds I just get my husband to put him down and he’s fine. We alternate nights and I have to feed him as he won’t sit on my lap for a story without asking for milk so he has milk every other night before bed. When I decide I’m ready to give up completely I’ll get hubby to do every night for a week and see if he forgets about the milk

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