Nursing/Weaning Poll

[jewel441]

Because I logged in for Shelia's poll and I am here and nosy. What are your plans (if any) for the end of nursing?

[jewel441]

Definitely not weaning at a year, but I am not sure... I think sometime between a year and 2 or by 2 would be good, but I am not pushing for anything. All though I do think about night weaning a lot and may try that closer to a year.

[SheilaTheTank]

Once we started supplementing at 6 months because of her weight she self weaned. The last time she nursed, she only did for less than a minute. She was completely done by 8 months. I admit that at first I was sad, but then I realized the freedom was great. "Hey hun, LO's hungry, can you get her a bottle? I'm going to run to Target." Fucking brilliant.

Is LO showing any signs of weaning? K would freak out if she saw a bottle but when I offered the boob, she was meh. We still feed K a bottle in MOTN most nights, but what's great is MH can do it too! YAY SLEEP!

[Deleted]

I wasn't nursing, but I was done pumping by 8 months. The stress of everything caused my supply to dwindle down to nothing and I didn't have the time or energy to put in the work to bring it back up.

[zombiesquad]

Taking all the polls today (and avoiding year-end budget work). We went on a family vacation for a week this past summer and he had a bottle more than I could feasibly nurse, so by the time we got home, he pretty much weaned himself at 5 months.

[cinnamonsmiles]

Still nursing. No plans to wean at a year even, but we also started solids later than most and so are a bit behind even if we were to aim for that. I nursed DS until he weaned himself at 17 months (I was 6mo pregnant with V and dried up).

Not exactly sure I want to nurse for that long, but at this point I'm fine with going until she weans herself.

[ltlbandito]

I'd like to continue breastfeeding until at least two. If she self-weans before that, that's fine too. I hadn't really thought about or made plans for what will happen if she's still breastfeeding at two though.

[peachesncream]

I wish extended BFing would have been in the cards, I would have loved to, but we weaned at 3 months.

[jewel441]

Dec 14, 2016 10:23:13 GMT -5 SheilaTheTank said:

Once we started supplementing at 6 months because of her weight she self weaned. The last time she nursed, she only did for less than a minute. She was completely done by 8 months. I admit that at first I was sad, but then I realized the freedom was great. "Hey hun, LO's hungry, can you get her a bottle? I'm going to run to Target." Fucking brilliant.

Is LO showing any signs of weaning? K would freak out if she saw a bottle but when I offered the boob, she was meh. We still feed K a bottle in MOTN most nights, but what's great is MH can do it too! YAY SLEEP!

Nothing even close to signs. LO nurses 8 or so times in 24 hrs. She dropped her first non-nap associated feeding recently and that's great! She pretty much nursed 12-15 times a day until like 6 months. At this point I can't imagine her being done with the boob, but I'm sure she will eventually... did you see the SNL nursing skit when Dave Chappelle was on? H busted out laughing and was like "that's gonna be you"

I love nursing but I am looking forward to it being not so urgent when she needs to nurse!

[SheilaTheTank]

Dec 14, 2016 12:22:42 GMT -5 jewel441 said:

Dec 14, 2016 10:23:13 GMT -5 SheilaTheTank said:

Once we started supplementing at 6 months because of her weight she self weaned. The last time she nursed, she only did for less than a minute. She was completely done by 8 months. I admit that at first I was sad, but then I realized the freedom was great. "Hey hun, LO's hungry, can you get her a bottle? I'm going to run to Target." Fucking brilliant.

Is LO showing any signs of weaning? K would freak out if she saw a bottle but when I offered the boob, she was meh. We still feed K a bottle in MOTN most nights, but what's great is MH can do it too! YAY SLEEP!

Nothing even close to signs. LO nurses 8 or so times in 24 hrs. She dropped her first non-nap associated feeding recently and that's great! She pretty much nursed 12-15 times a day until like 6 months. At this point I can't imagine her being done with the boob, but I'm sure she will eventually... did you see the SNL nursing skit when Dave Chappelle was on? H busted out laughing and was like "that's gonna be you"

I love nursing but I am looking forward to it being not so urgent when she needs to nurse!

I'll have to check out the skit. Maybe I can get mh to watch it tonight. 

[jewel441]

Dec 14, 2016 12:53:17 GMT -5 SheilaTheTank said:

Dec 14, 2016 12:22:42 GMT -5 jewel441 said:

Nothing even close to signs. LO nurses 8 or so times in 24 hrs. She dropped her first non-nap associated feeding recently and that's great! She pretty much nursed 12-15 times a day until like 6 months. At this point I can't imagine her being done with the boob, but I'm sure she will eventually... did you see the SNL nursing skit when Dave Chappelle was on? H busted out laughing and was like "that's gonna be you"

I love nursing but I am looking forward to it being not so urgent when she needs to nurse!

I'll have to check out the skit. Maybe I can get mh to watch it tonight. 

The skit itself wasn't super funny except that the cast was losing it. The episode was really good though. Dave Chappelle is so funny and he did like all his characters.

[rachelilly23]

K doesn't have as much interest in nursing anymore. She nurses 4-5 times a day and drinks water out of a cup. She eats a lot of real food now. She is almost over baby food. She wants table food for the most part! I digress, but I will nurse her as long as she wants to keep doing it, but I don't see that being for very long after 12 months. DS2 weaned at 15 months and was pretty well established with cows milk, so I would like to do the same.

[halfahippy]

I am counting down the months until we reach a year and I can be done. I felt the same with DS around this age too. I'll make it to a year because we are so close. I'll start transitioning to wcm around 11.5 months and give us a month to fully wean.

[sunshineshades]

I'm kind of running on a we'll see. I'd like to nurse past a year, but I watched my niece at 18 months throw tantrums to nurse, and nurse more than E would in the same time frame and she was nursing every 2 hours. Now at almost 2 she's not as demanding but very possessive over her mom's boobs (if she holds E my niece climbs on her and points at her chest saying mine). My neighbour's daughter is the same age and was nursing all night long and to fall asleep. She's recently started weaning though.
Right now she nurses 5-6 times in 24 hours I believe. She really enjoys food so it isn't that demanding at all most days. Plus she's fast, less than 5 minutes most feedings.

I think if I can keep a limit on it, and not have fit throwing every time she's in a new situation or tired, or wanting to nurse a million times a day, I'll continue until closer to 2.


ETA I do plan to start introducing wcm in a few weeks. In Canada they say you can start between 9-12 months. I don't plan a lot, but a couple ounces a day. Mainly to have an alternative to pumping if I'm not around and she wants milk.

[jewel441]

sunshineshades I hear stories like that online but all the EBFers I have known IRL it's been more like a gradual weaning and maybe sticking with 1-2 feedings a day for awhile. I am hoping more for that. But my ability to say no to LO seems somewhat limited, so I guess we'll see. Lol

[sunshineshades]

Dec 14, 2016 14:31:53 GMT -5 jewel441 said:

sunshineshades I hear stories like that online but all the EBFers I have known IRL it's been more like a gradual weaning and maybe sticking with 1-2 feedings a day for awhile. I am hoping more for that. But my ability to say no to LO seems somewhat limited, so I guess we'll see. Lol

That's what I would like to do. Like first thing in the morning, after work on days I work maybe, bedtime. Not on demand, regular milk the rest the time or water.

[carissa325]

Dec 14, 2016 14:21:30 GMT -5 halfahippy said:

I am counting down the months until we reach a year and I can be done. I felt the same with DS around this age too. I'll make it to a year because we are so close. I'll start transitioning to wcm around 11.5 months and give us a month to fully wean.

This. C eats a lot of table food, no more baby food and nurses for about 5 minutes at a time. I'm ready to be done. I've been either pregnant or nursing since August 2013.

[awkwardturtle]

I vote SS because have been slowly becoming less BF and more solids/ formula for 2ish months. Just in the last week he's maybe nursing 1-2 times a day.. so most likely will not make it to a year. I am happy with making it this far.

[katespade]

I can't see the poll on mobile but I'm still nursing. I plan to start slowly weaning at 12 months. We'll see how that goes.

[michelleca]

I weaned my son at 23m when I started ttc. Didn't want to tandem. I'll probably wean Lauren at the same age, but I'll be sad. My last baby

[chatterbox]

I plan on cutting down to 2-3 nursing sessions when DS is 12 months and hopefully he will self wean before 18 months (the sooner the better). Nursing is starting to feel like a chore. The nine month mark is when I started feeling this way with DD too. I was able to start supplementing with her, but DS won't take a bottle. He's really not into solids yet either. We've tried puréed and table food. He usually doesn't want the pouch, and still is mostly spitting out the table food. I have a feeling he might be tough to wean, but I'm so ready! Even though I know I'll be an emotional mess over it when the time actually comes!