Ellie Brooke will be 1 in a few weeks and initally I was planning to continue nursing thru winter, but I just booked a caribbean vacation for DH and I over NYE so I am going to give up the nursing! We are currently down to 3 nursing sessions/day, AM, mid day and bedtime. Yesterday was my last pumping session and I am mixing BM and whole milk for snacks starting today...is this right? Do I just go cold turkey to the whole milk and see how she does? She is not a healthy kid and has a lot of allergies etc which is why I was going to continue BF. Both kids were admitted to CHOA last week with pneumonia and I just cant ever seem to keep her healthy because Easton brings everything home. I am feeling a bit guilty about quitting at a year when I know I *could* keep going but honestly, I need a vacation. Easton pretty much self weaned at a year as I was already 8 weeks pg and went cold turkey from BM to whole milk so I feel like I haven't done this before. How long will it take me to completely get rid of the milk? I would like to get rid of the tribal titties before we hit the beach or I could be in National Geographic with how I currently look! Any advice is appreciated!
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First things first. Great job keeping up with it for a whole year. You rock!
I dropped a feeding a week, with minimal discomfort. So if you dropped one of them now, you should be pretty good by NYE. Once i dropped the last feeding I did whole milk cold turkey. I'm ruthless.
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How is she a year already? Evie still calls her baby Ellie and has named all of her baby dolls Ellie.
With Evie, I just gave her whole milk, no mixing. We were down to 2x a day by her first birthday and it took another month to drop the last feeding. Although for the Caribbean I would have gone cold turkey.