Boob grabbing

😅 my son used to like holding a boob for comfort, didn’t even have to be mine 🤣 it didn’t last forever, I think she stopped around 1.5

I fully weaning my 13 month old off the boob last month. The past few days she's been shoving her hand down my top and bra to fish out my boob. Thankfully it's only at home. The 1 time she did it in public i said "do you mind" and offered her water and a snack and she left me alone. I can be in a high neck top or low cut and she'll still find a away to get to my boob

Unrelated but how did you guys wean off the boob? My LO is 15 months old now and I can't get her to stop breastfeeding. She only drinks three times a day (morning, nap time and bed time). I need advice to wean her off please 🥺

I was veeery gradual, as my son didn’t take a bottle or milk in any other form. But sometime after his first birthday I relaxed about his milk intake, he would drink some cows/oat milk with his meals or not, either way he was getting calcium in other forms.

That’s when I simply moved to spare bedroom for a few nights and my husband was handling bedtime and all night wakes. The best sleep I had in ages. 😂😂😂. After a few nights I would join in to start resettling him as well, but if he would ask for boob, I would swap with my husband again.

After a week or so, my son started sleeping through the night (first time ever!), if he wakes up, he is easily resettled.
I never fed for naps or to sleep before, so daytime feeds I weaned off before 1. Replaced it with snacks or water

So basically my advice is to chill, book yourself into a nearby hotel for a few nights, and leave your partner/other caregiver alone for a few nights 😂

P.S. we also waited till all his night wakes were clearly pain unrelated. We had a tough few weeks of vaccines and then 4 molars coming through one after another. Once there was a few night of just “habit” wakes, I stepped back

I was worried about this but I noticed my son started to wean himself off because he was only breastfeeding for comfort, he was drinking his cows milk out of his bottle so I used to say mummy has no more milk. I think my milk in my boobs became less and he would get frustrated and just would substitute cows milk over breast milk. Until now he doesn’t breastfeed at all. He’s cheeky now he will still try to grab my breast every now and again, not long ago he tried to latch back on but I was too quick for him. My boobs have dried up now so lil man does not have a choice, it’s cows milk or nothing but it was easier than I thought to be honest.

We’ve not fully weaned yet but have pretty much reduced to just first thing in the morning. However evenings after nursery and weekends are a struggle as he wants to comfort feed cluster-style, and this has involved a lot of forceful grabbing which I find super triggering. Especially since I’m mostly on my own as my husband works away 😵‍💫.