My baby will be 18months old in a few days, and she is still nursing(breastfeeeding). My plan is to stop nursing her at 20months. My husband wants her to start nursery in a month’s time but i have mixed feelings about it as i work from home with one day away from home.
She has never had bottled milk but she uses sippy cups or a normal cup quite well to drink her water.
Please advise on how to go about weaning her and the nursery bit ( is it a good idea or it it too early for her?)
Thanks
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Hi there, not early at all. I sent mine away to nursery when she was 11 months ! She has been exclusively breastfed, never taken a bottle. She has settled well in the nursery. She is 2.5 now, attending nursery still breastfeeding !
Good luck with the transition x

Hi there, not early at all. I sent mine away to nursery when she was 11 months ! She has been exclusively breastfed, never taken a bottle. She has settled well in the nursery. She is 2.5 now, attending nursery still breastfeeding !
Good luck with the transition x

My son started nursery at around 14 months for 2 days a week, I would send him with a bottle of expressed milk but he stopped drinking it after a while. In hindsight he probably didn’t like the bottle itself. I weaned at 20 months by moving him onto breastmilk in a sippy cup, then mixed this with cows milk to ease him into it. Prior to weaning he always refused cows milk.

I’m a little unsure . I never breastfed my babies that along . I would just start slow . Explain to your husband it may take some time . I do know some mommies have a hard time transitioning. I would just start very slowly

Not too early at all.
My little girl is 18 months and has been at nursery for 3 months. Shes also still breastfed. She doesn’t have any milk whilst at nursery despite them offering her cows milk - she just doesn’t want it. She just drinks water whilst she’s there.
She’s absolutely fine and still following her curve for weight.
She feeds first thing in the morning, before we for nursery, when we get home, throughout the evening and before bed as normal.
I don’t plan on weaning until 2 years unless she chooses to before then. She still shows the same interest in breastfeeding as she did before she started at nursery.