Breastfeeding

You can do whatever works for you! They need either breastmilk or formula until 1 year old, then they can rely on solid foods and have cows milk. My baby is 6 months, I have pretty much only breastfeed and then he got bottles of pumped milk one day a week that I went to work. Now i haven’t been pumping enough to have for those days so I started doing 50/50 formula and breastmilk! He has not been reacting well for full formula bottles though. I hope do a year of breast feeding but I worry the older they get it might be harder to stop 🤷🏽‍♀️ it seems like now he just wants boob and gets annoyed with the bottle but before he took it just find, I feel like as he is getting older he is able to communicate what he wants more

Babies can start solids around 5 months you start with stuff that’s easy to chew/ hard to choke on like baby food purées, avocado, butter, rice cereal that is mixed with breast milk. Than you can start to do more and more solids and less breast milk. It’s great to breast feed or add in breast milk as long as you can but of course as long as baby gets nutrients it’s ok. Make sure to do research (baby nutritionists are all over instagram too) and ask your doctor.

Yes to clarify, they can have solids before one year but breastmilk or formula is the main source of nutrition so they do need one of those before age 1

As others have said you can quit breastfeeding but you will need to switch to formula until a year old. I went to 13 months with my oldest and 2 years with my second. I'm not sure how long past a year old I'll go with my 8 month old but it will be at least till a year.