Breastfeeding when to stop/ tandem feeding

I am currently nearly 11 months in to tandem feeding and 2 and a half years into breastfeeding I never had the urge to stop breastfeeding until recently because my toddler does not sleep at all and I feel it’s starting to affect my baby too because we are all up at all hours trying to resettle I won’t be able to stop feeding my 2.5 year old without stopping feeding my nearly 11 month old but feel extreme mum guilt in thinking about stopping but I just feel like my body has given so much to feeding my babies more so my nearly 3 year old and I want to implement a routine and a better sleeping schedule for everyone and I really don’t see that happening without stopping breastfeeding completely therefore would have to stop feeding them both together. Has anyone any advice? It’s been a constant thought for a good few months now I did want to feed to a year for my littlest baby which I will be at in the next month or so as I don’t want to get to the point where my toddler is at being so very attached to the boob
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Whenever you want to. I’ve continued and my boys are 2.5 and 4.5 now and still feed maybe once or twice a week for comfort for like 10 seconds but that’s it. I left them to do it on their own and they naturally weaned down. Both my boys don’t have a set sleep routine though even when they stopped feeding through the night. It could help, but not necessarily. It’s normal for toddlers to wake through the night x

I know it’s normal I don’t mean for them to sleep through if that’s what it sounded like I meant for her to just actually sleep, she will only sleep if my boob is in her mouth she uses it as a dummy but never actually taken a dummy, as soon as I unlatch her she’s wide awake it’s 100% comfort for her she doesn’t even really feed all that much just suckles, I don’t mind waking up to feed my baby obviously but she generally feeds and goes back down to sleep where as my eldest doesn’t get off the boob but I can’t take that away from unless I stop feeding them both because I wouldn’t be able to explain that it’s gone without it actually being gone and not feeding her sister if that’s makes any sense at all

Yeah i get you. My eldest used to wanna be latched all night long and would wake hourly 😴 It’s hard!!

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