Damn kellymom and its pro-BFing propaganda

Fish4Fun

This phrase alone has me wavering on weaning:

"Breastfeeding can be a real work saver when you can count on it as a surefire way of getting a baby to quiet down or sleep."

 

"If children are truly allowed to self-wean in their own time, most will do so somewhere between the 2nd and 4th year."

Really.  REALLY?  Ugh, I don't know.  I don't think I can do that.  What do I do?  What are you other BFing moms doing?

rommelea

I have weaned M down to only nursing at night/morning - only because I can't stand pumping.  I plan on letting him continue doing that as long as he wants.

ChefBrit

she has already cut back to about 3/4 feedings a day.. at a year i plan on trying to cut back a little more but still keep the bedtime feeding.. i will keep that till she doesn't want to anymore or 2 years whichever comes first.

lisaohgee

I'm weaning at a year.  I am  hoping I'll be pregnant by then too.  I will keep the night feeding for awhile, if he needs it, but I have no desire to tandem BF or anything like that.

I like Kellymom, and I am PRO BF, but the go to the extreme.  They are all the way left and I am in the middle.

CalinsBride

I'm really not planning on allowing M to self-wean, AP be damned. I just can't have a two year old running up to me and demanding access to my boobs. I could always change my mind, since at this point the thought of weaning in 6 months makes me really sad, but I really would like to be done by the time he's a year, a year and a half old. . .

katie_cj

I'm going to wean daytime nursing around 11 months since that's when I go back to work. 

I'll keep the morning/night nursing until he weans himself.

skaplan000

DD self weaned at 8 months to twice a day now she self weened herself to just an am feeding.

mobiz

i cut down to only nursing at night for a few weeks first (i just hated pumping at work). and that made me very happy. but i will say once i'd done that for awhile i also hit a point where i just felt ready to have my body totally back to myself and i decided to stop the nighttime feeding as well.  ironically the night i decided i wasn't going to nurse him in the middle of the night he suddenly slept thru that feeding time anyway!

at the very least, not nursing during the day is VERY liberating and you can keep the bonding/closeness/health benefits by just nursing at night for awhile.

MamiJam

LOL... for me it's true, I can almost always count on BFing to comfort DS.  I plan on letting him wean on his own.  He is very active and not very interested in nursing during the day so I can definitely see him being done by the time he's 2.  If not, I'll consider weaning him sometime before he turns 3... at least that's the idea now.  During that 2nd year if not sooner, I imagine that he'll only want to nurse morning/night so that's really not a big deal to me.  It's not like I'm going to be pumping by then and I don't see any reason to wean him any sooner.

C.Mo

My ultimate goal is to get through flu season next year, so about 1.5 years. And if I make that she'll probably be drinking pumped BM from a bottle. My goal right now is just to make it a year. That is difficult right now. I'm exhausted all the time and pumping at work is a HUGE PITA.

People always talk about how hard parenting is, no one ever really tells you how hard it is to BF.

jolis_petits_bijoux

It's funny, I never thought I would be one to extended BF, and now I'm thinking about it.......  When L was born my goal was to make it 3 months.  Then 6.  Now it's 1 year.  It just keeps getting easier and easier.  Maybe I'll go even longer than 1 year.

ladymeg

I personally was just happy to have made it to 6 mo. My ultimate goal is 9 mo but I already started weaning ds and he nurses probably 2-3 out of the 5x/day. If my supply doesn't just dwindle completely away, I would like to at least keep morning/middle of the night nursing until 9 mo. I never realized the emotional attachment would be so strong and hard to let go of with nursing. I've quit pumping all together unless I've been away from ds for a really long period of time. Since the little weaning I've done, my boobs have shrunk almost back to my normal size, or at least my early pregnancy size. I have to say I've quite enjoyed wearing a regular bra again

MegDC

I am weaning right now.  Not because I want to, but I just don't get anythinig when I pump anymore.  I am letting DD nurse as long as she wants to in the morning and at night, but my supply is tanking.  I'm sad, but feel pretty good that we made it this far.

Adam'sGirl

I plan on starting to wean around 10 months, slowly, with the hopes of being completely weaned by one year.

mjlx207

I dropped pumping at the beginning of the year when I came back to work.  I was getting a miserable amount and just couldn't do it anymore.  Now I feed her in the am and pm right before bed, and I've been fine during the day.  I'll do this until I can't do it anymore.

mistresscox

i'm hoping to BF for a year.  i'll stop pumping at work at a year and we'll see what happens from there.  i don't want to BF for much more than a year-i'm ready to have my body back and not hurt whenever i'm away from DD for more than a few hours.