Anyone still breastfeeding? Advice for weaning
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I’m in the exact same boat, but I’m pregnant and all of a sudden breastfeeding is so so so overwhelming I don’t know how to get him off he is obsessed with my boobs and acts like he’d die without them, it’s just so stressful now and I want to stop so I don’t feel so drained from feeding a baby and growing a baby and trying to look after myself all at once xx
I’m In the same position! I thought I was getting successful at reducing down but all it seems to do is increase the night feeds instead of cut them out. At a loss on how to stop as she seems to want it more now and will only take a few sips of cows milk :/
I have stopped now, was pretty easy for us. But I haven't consistently fed my LO overnight the boob since she was about 4months old. I was waking her for a bottle of EBM at 2300 then dropped this in the new year. I was doing a bottle of EBM first thing in the morning, then I have always had similar times for feeds each day so I gradually just swapped them to breastmilk in bottles until she was only having the boob at 1530 then I swapped this for a snack a couple of months ago and literally she's never asked since! Definitely easier if your LO takes a bottle and id probably aim to drop night feeds all together before you think about weaning from boob completely
Trying adding 1 soaked date and churn the milk. Flavour might help babies like cow milk
Following! I’m happy to keep breastfeeding for now but as you say she seems to be getting more dependent, pointing at the chair we feed on. She fell over the other day was crying and pointing like she wanted it for comfort. I’ve spent 13 months trying to separate food and comfort and I feel like that’s all crashing down now