Weaning ?

[nebraska84]

Hi guys...still trying to figure out this new system so sorry if this has already been asked and discussed. But as the 1 yr mark approaches, I would like to start weaning. What have others done? I can not remember what I did with DS1, even though it was 2 years ago. I would like to get down to morning and night around the 1 year mark. Where did everyone start with the weaning process? TIA

[rosie137]

I'll be following this thread, so far we've cut down to 4 sessions during the day and I hope to cut out another next week. I've just been offering food instead of nursing. He has had little to no interest in wcm in a sippie and will not do bottles, so he just has water out of a sippie. Trying to figure out what kind of foods he'll eat, it's such a weird stage. I too cannot remember how I did it with DD and DS1.

[caer]

I weaned in September, so not sure how helpful this is going to be. I just dropped one nursing/pumpin session at a time. I wanted to go really slow so I left at least a week between dropped sessions. I dropped daytime pumps first and sent formula to daycare. When I got down to morning and night, I kept that up for about a month, then dropped morning and a week later dropped the night session.

It was crazy pants slow but the nice thing was I had no pain and didn't have to use any tricks to stop producing milk. I had a tiny bit of leaking for a few weeks - other than that, it was fairly easy.

[rachaelmary]

So, lo takes her afternoon bottle of straight wcm. I started this with half cows milk half bm until it was just cows milk.

So I need to do the same for switching her other feeds to wcm? I'm out of my freezer stash...