Counting down the days...

[meritsamomma]

I haven't been super active on here, as my BMB is a total ghost town and that's where my support system always was.  For those who don't know me, I'm a June 14 momma and have been EPing since LO was 3 months after a not great BFing relationship (we were always crying) and a horrible case of thrush which lasted 2 freaking months.
K is now 11 months and 4 days.  I am SO CLOSE to being done!  I currently pump twice a day, morning and night.  I had gotten my pumps down to 15 minutes but I'm trying to keep my supply which is slowly dying.  I'm pumping about 12 ounces a day and starting to mow through the small freezer stash I have.  I'm hoping I can hold out until her birthday, because she has been on BM exclusively.  She had formula early on a few times and always got sick so I don't want to have to give it to her.  
I'm trying to decide if I want to try increasing my supply or just let it go since I'm so close...  I never thought I'd make it this far, especially given the intense hatred I have for my pump.  Honestly this is even something that makes me hesitant in thinking about having another baby in the future.  Thinking about possibly being attached to a pump again makes me utterly cringe, but I feel like my body can produce the milk to feed her so I should...
Just wanted to touch base and say kudos to all the other EPers out there and Happy Mother's Day!

[LittleStarSweeper]

Hi, meritsamomma! I'm a J14er, too... and I was also an EP-er for six months. It's really too bad our BMB has become so dead.
Anyway, congratulations on continuing to EP and happy Mother's Day to you, too.
Also happy almost-birthday to our June bugs.

[Widget123]

If I were you I would just let it go now. Trying to increase your supply again may make it harder to cut it off completely when baby hits one year. It took me several weeks to get to the point that it sounds like you are at now.

I assume you are probably waiting for a pedi's blessing to start regular milk, but it may not be the worst thing to start adding that to the mix now. My DD has a cows milk allergy and it was nice to figure that out before I completely cut off pumping.