Breastfeeding at 12-14 months

Kingston54 · November 2013

I can't remember what the frequency/amount was with DS, so just came to ask: If you're still breastfeeding at 12-14months, how many times a day? Also, if you pump, how many ounces in a bottle?

dufferoo · November 2013

3-5 times a day. My 14-month-old usually nurses when he wakes up- though sometimes he's too eager to get up and start the day- and then before his two naps and bed. 3 days a week, I work, so he misses 1-2 of those sessions and is fine without. (I don't pump or anything.) Occasionally, especially on work days, he wakes up in the middle of the night and I nurse him back to sleep.

ktpaladino · November 2013

We stopped at 15.5 months, mainly because I got pregnant and my supply nearly vanished. At 12 months we were doing morning and night, and by 14 months we were down to before bed only. I would hardly get anything when I pumped...maybe 1-2 ounces in 15 minutes.

jess9802 · November 2013

Most days it's just twice. I quit pumping at the one year mark.

mb314 · November 2013

Weekday nursing: Nighttime and over night, and in the morning

Weekday pumping: 1X. I'm only getting 4 oz (down from 8 or 9 a month ago). I'll probably quit pumping around Thanksgiving.

Weekend: No pumping. Nursing nighttime, over night, in the morning, and before his two naps.

Bottles at daycare: We starting by doing 75% BM, 25% WCM at a year. About two weeks later, we did 50/50, and two weeks after that 25/75. Now I send 1 four ounce bottle of BM, and he has other bottles of WCM (he is VERY attached to his bottles, so he drink WCM out of the bottle).

singingirl96 · November 2013

I think about 2-3 times a day. I quit pumping at work right around 12 months. When we were about to run out of frozen breast milk, daycare started mixing whole milk with it.
He started to lose interest in nursing right around 13 months. Probably because my supply dwindled. So we weaned just before he turned 14 months old.

baloneydisc · November 2013

I've never pumped because DD refuses bottles, but if think 3-5 times a day sounds about right. DD usually just nurses to sleep, but with teething and being sick she was nursing more often for a few weeks.

pb_bride · November 2013

DS just turned 1 and we are at 4x/day (I've been slowly weaning him, down from 6x/day at 10 months). I plan to drop him down to 3x/day, probably next week, and will start introducing WCM then.

Katie829 · November 2013

I packed my pump at 11 months when I knew I had enough frozen to get me past 1. She is still nursing at 17mo now. She nurses only in the morning though. Never at night. DVD stopped that shortly after 13-14mo.

sandyapples · November 2013

DD is 12.5 months and she nurses once a day in the morning. She was at 3x a day for a couple of weeks but her sessions were so short I decided to cut them out. I have always supplemented with a bottle at night due to supply issues, otherwise I would still nurse at night as well.

sadeathe · November 2013

We're in the process of weaning, so just once a day for us. I figure I'll have him weaned completely after we move at the end of the month.

Edited: Clarity

blushingbride_08 · November 2013

I was still nursing every 2 hours. Then dropped to 5x per day. Then to 3x. Then 2x. Then 1x. I weaned over the course of 3 months.

xoexpat · November 2013

My twins are nearly 14 months old and still nurse probably 5 times a day. We just started the process of night weaning last week (they were still waking every three hours).