Need help on how to stop!
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We’re in the same situation with my 19 month! She’s been poorly the last few weeks so has been feeding more than usual and I’ve just decided that’s it now! We also co sleep so she feeds like twice during the night. But from today I’ve decided to start cutting out afternoon nap feeds, by doing a pram nap. I fed her to sleep for bed time as I’ve read not to go cold turkey as there’s chance you can get mastitis! And will attempt to rock her to sleep during the night when she wakes! Good luck! If you decide you want to stop don’t give in!! Xx
Your milk supply will dry up at some stage during pregnancy and most children will self wean then, so it may be kinder and easier to hold on a while longer if you can and the work be done for you x
@Yasmin what if it doesn’t though 🫣
@Lauren yes I’m worried about mastitis too so I’m also trying to just feed her once a day at the moment. My girl sometimes Co sleeps and feeds once during the night too but sometimes that’s only once a week. I just feel so done with it now. Thanks for your advice 🩷
@Amanda I’ve heard they self wean eventually but I’m concerned my girl loves her ‘muk’ way too much that if given the choice she’d never stop 🤣🙈
As Yasmin touched on. After 20 weeks your milk will slowly dry up. By that point she will be forced to wean. I would keep going as long as you can. One day you'll think back to the last feed and miss those days.
Yeah over here I've got one of those. Theoretically I thought they self wean but, pls no hate here but my 3.5 year old is still doing this with no signs of self weaning 🙃she's an only child though and I've heard with pregnancy it's naturally different so I hope that's the case for you! Sorry that is not helpful and I don't have advice but just letting you know you're not alone with a milk monster, it's hard!
@Lauren 2-7 is the natural term weaning age so your LO has plenty of time of self weaning is your goal 😊
Incognito your milk will dry up its hormonal and therefore nothing that can be done to stop it. Some LOs will still dry nurse for comfort but the majority will wean at that point as they’re not getting the milk which keeps them interested x
Sometimes you can't control other people. You've got 2 options: Cut it off cold turkey OR Let baby self wean, which usually naturally happens around 2 years. The choice is yours