Breastfeeding mums - how many feeds?

Just wondering how everyone else is getting on? My little girl still feeds multiple times during the night (she seems to genuinely want the milk, not just feeding for comfort). I feed her on demand in the morning, after work, and before bed… I express milk while I’m at work and she will usually have two bottles while I’m away from her during the day. She eats plenty of food and her poos are usually pretty solid. We offer water/milk with meals. I’m not worried but googling it was probably a mistake 🤣

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My girl feeds multiple times through the night and then she feeds in the morning. When she's with me she will feed a few times in the day. Sometimes just at nap times and other times she'll come ask for some. She feeds to sleep as well. She also has a feed after nursery as she refuses bottles so doesn't have breast milk at nursery. I let her feed whenever she wants so it's still quite a bit. She has 3 meals and some snacks. She also has water and cows milk.

Since my little boy turned 1 about a month ago I’ve been slowly weaning him off of it. Every week I’ve dropped one feed and now he just feeds in the morning and once or twice overnight. He used to settle absolutely fine for his dad overnight but now he screams and I have to settle him with a boob. We’re hoping this is just a phase and he’ll come out of it soon. I always said I didn’t want to breastfeed a toddler but it seems to be the only way to settle him overnight at the moment!

Morning & might only, I stopped day feeds end of August.

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