Stopping breastfeeding
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plan_surviveMy second child is 2 years, 3 months. I am happy to have breastfed him to two years old, but I would really like to stop now.
I started with never-offer, never-refuse when he was about 18 months, and I started explicitly refusing to feed him at nursery pickup (waiting until we got home) a few months after that. When he turned two, I started refusing/redirecting feeding to bedtime only (although I've not been as strict on that when we've been travelling away from home, if he seemed to need comfort and reassurance).
Nighttime-only feeding seems to have led to almost a reverse-cycling like when he was still exclusively fed and I returned to work, where he feeds copiously at night and in the early morning. We cosleep, so it's not as disruptive as it could be, but it is still disruptive.
The reason I cut back to nighttime only is because it's when I'm least able to put up a resistance. But now that I am really ready to stop ... it's when I'm least able to put up a resistance.
He goes to sleep for other people if I'm away in the evening, but I've never actually been away from him overnight yet. Perhaps I need to do that. Any suggestions gratefully received.
I started with never-offer, never-refuse when he was about 18 months, and I started explicitly refusing to feed him at nursery pickup (waiting until we got home) a few months after that. When he turned two, I started refusing/redirecting feeding to bedtime only (although I've not been as strict on that when we've been travelling away from home, if he seemed to need comfort and reassurance).
Nighttime-only feeding seems to have led to almost a reverse-cycling like when he was still exclusively fed and I returned to work, where he feeds copiously at night and in the early morning. We cosleep, so it's not as disruptive as it could be, but it is still disruptive.
The reason I cut back to nighttime only is because it's when I'm least able to put up a resistance. But now that I am really ready to stop ... it's when I'm least able to put up a resistance.
He goes to sleep for other people if I'm away in the evening, but I've never actually been away from him overnight yet. Perhaps I need to do that. Any suggestions gratefully received.
