Breastfeeding

Following for tips, my boy is 13 months and the exact same. He’s so attached with having breast milk and I want to stop without feeling guilty 😩 x

@Marian I feel soo guilty 🥲😂

Eee in my experience (I’ve just stopped at 15 months) - you have to go cold turkey. It will be hard at first but he’ll get used to it. I actually had to go away for work for 3 weeks so had no other choice but it’s the best thing ever for us both! He doesn’t miss it at all and is so much more independent. He also sleeps from 7-7 without any feeds or wake ups x

@Elisha was he feeding at night when you used to breastfeed him?

I stopped night feeds a couple of months ago with my little guy who is now 22 months, so a bit older than yours. It was getting ridiculous because he would wake up 6-7 times a night and scream until I breastfed him back to sleep. I just couldn't any more. I also just sort of went cold turkey with it. I fed him to sleep initially and then just refused to feed him again when he woke up. I cuddled, patted, gave kisses etc but no feeding. The first night was awful and I felt like a terrible person but it quickly got a lot better, even by the second night. Now he is only waking a couple of times a night and when he does, he mostly just needs a little cuddle or a pat to get back to sleep. I feel I have regained a little of my sanity!

@Rachel I feel like I’m on the same boat right now, because night feeds are still the same from when he was a newborn 😩

@Klaudia he was but not after I put him into his own room. I would say until 11 months he would sleep in bed next to me and basically feed all night. I was exhausted so we put him into his own room and he just started to sleep the whole time. I think it was because he could smell me/the milk. Does your son sleep in the same room?

@Elisha we sleep in the same room because we live in a small house and I have no possibility to move him 😞

@Klaudia Exactly, I felt like we were still on a newborn's night time feeding schedule! We live in a one-bed and also share the room with our baby so don't let that be an obstacle! We also found that having baby on a floor bed helped a lot too so I don't need to pick him up each time he wakes, I can just lay next to him.

I agree with @Elisha . My boy is 16 months old the and I stopped breastfeeding at 14 months. He was so used to to the boob he use to comfort feed even if he was full. At night he use to wake up and sleep attached to the boob. I got exhausted and stopped cold turkey. He hated the bottle and hated milk but after a week he got use to it. To get him use to the bottle I put water, and his favorite juice and then I started to give him small increments of milk with a bit of flavor . It’s hard at the start but if you hold on and stay strong they’ll let it go. My baby now eats around 5-6 his last meal and around 8-8:30 he drinks his bottle of 8oz and keeps the entire night without waking up like he use to when breastfeeding.

I tried today to put him to sleep without the breast but after 2 hours of crying I gave up 😩

My boy is 30months and the exact same. He is so attached with having a breast milk and I want to stop. But i don’t know where to begin with.