What happens with breastfeeding after 1?

I go back to work when shes 1, what happens with breastfeeding. Do they need milk or do they just eat food during day and then milk before bed? Don't have a clue sorry. My sister has been telling me to stop now at 7 months else she'll struggle when I go back to work 😫

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You can just nurse when you are together and not when you are apart at that age. My daughter used to nurse in the day if I wasn’t at work.

After 1 they can have full fat cows milk! With my first id just breastfeed before and after nursery and he’d eat food and have cows milk all day :)

My 14 month old goes to nursery. I express three times per day at work, so he gets three bottles per day to drink at nursery... I'd planned to stop breast feeding at about a year but he's really rubbish at drinking water so I've continued. I'd tried switching him to formula so that I didn't have to express but he rejected it. Waiting on blood tests to figure out whether he has a cows milk allergy or is just being fussy!

After 1 the only required liquid is water. You can breastfeed when you're home if you want to continue

I just fed my son in the morning and when i picked him up/ bedtime after he started nursery at 1

Mine 2 year old doesn’t hardly drink cows milk only drink it at night when she turned 1 . I mean she is doing fine health wise

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