How long do you plan on breastfeeding for?

bride711 · September 2012

Hi Ladies,

How long do you plan on breastfeeding your LO?

jasminelorraine20 · September 2012

At least a year, but really whenever LO doesn't want to nurse anymore.

tokenhoser · September 2012

Until it stops working for us.

I'm at nearly 17 months and am trying for #2; I'm not sure how pregnancy will impact breastfeeding for me so I'm waiting to see.

jlsimon56 · September 2012

I'm at 14.5mo now, DH wants me to wean her, I am taking my time with it. She is nowhere near ready to wean.

brighteyes2123 · September 2012

A year to thirteenish month!

caitie2002 · September 2012

untlil he's a year old (maybe a little longer if needed). He does really well taking bottles when I'm at work, so I think weaning will be harder on me than him.

Lubachka88 · September 2012

I'm planning on going for 34 months. I really don't like being stuck to the baby non stop and carrying my pump everywhere I go. I'm 4 weeks in and I'm constantly engorged and leaking.

MichelleL1118 · September 2012

I EBFed DS for 7.5-8 months, but I'm a teacher, and finding time to pump at work is challenging. School resumed when he was almost 8 months old and I decided not to pump anymore, so we went to one or two nursing sessions a day... and my supply quickly dried up.

This time around, I'll pump until May, then continue to EBF throughout next summer, but will not pump when I return to work in Aug 2013 - so she'll be 10.5-11 months old probably when we stop BFing full time, and I imagine my supply will dry up right around her first birthday, if things go like they did with DS.