Nursing Child

I stoped nuring at 15 mons, and I thought I was going to die. But after long sleepless night of not nursing, and listening to her cry all night long, we finnaly got thru it. I would only nurse her in the morning, and at night time before bed time. I slowly stoped the morning feeding, and only did it at night. After while I stoped the night feeding. It's a process, and takes some time. But it is do able. I hope this helps.

Pump and fill in sippy cup gradually dilute with formula until she is taking all formula in sippy cup. Nurse at first and gradually add in the sippy cups subsituting a nursing!! Worked for me same gap!!

My daughter was about 18 mos when I got pregnant with my second and she was still nursing. I didn't do anything to wean her from the start but when I was about 4 or 5 mos pregnant, my milk was gone. She continued to nurse and it was actually hurting me so after talking to her Ped. at her two year old check up, he suggested that I just talk to her. That she will understand more than I realize. That appt. was on a Monday. For the next few days, I told her Mommies milk is all gone, it hurts Mommie's boobies to nurse. Thursday night of that week she didn't even ask, she patted my boobs and said, "milk all gone" it was the sweetest thing. With my second, I night weaned him around 2 years old and I did this by telling him that when Mr. Moon is out we don't nurse, he could nurse when Mr. Sun is out. This took weeks but it did eventually click. So my suggestion (sorry, long story longer) is to tell her to talk to her daughter. If she is trying to wean her completely tell her to keep the dialogue simple and keep things positive. My son who is almost 3 (I never thought he'd nurse past 1) nurses about every 3 days or so, not much at all. Well, I've been mentioning to him that when he turns 3, no more nursing and so far he has agreed to that. He'll be 3 in April, so I've planted the seed early in hopes that when the time comes, he won't have a melt down.

Best wishes to your daughter,
M.

How far along is she? Usually there comes a point in the pregnancy where the nursling loses interest... lower supply.. flavor change? She can start setting limits... only allowing her to nurse for as long as it takes mom to sing the ABC song. Then getting up to play or do something fun. Most all of the mamas I've known who have been through this have been able to wean at some point in the preganancy because the little one loses interest.

You could try alternating feeding between breasts and bottle, gradually weening her to fully use the bottle. This way your breasts also gradually lose their milk without so much pain and engorgement.

Good advice, but don't wean a 20 month old to a bottle! That's subbing one habit (not bad habit, just habit) with another (bad, because a kid that old should NOT have a bottle) habit. And not to formula, use whole milk.

Also, your daughter doesn't have to stop breastfeeding if she doesnt' want. Many moms continue with their toddler after having a newborn, although I can't imagine the amount of milk that would require (very heavy boobs!). It all depends on what her goal is. The post about weaning gradually is the best choice. And while I totally support long term breast feeding, I think that it goes to far when they still need to feed in the night at this age, that's not bonding or nutritional, it's a crutch. If she's not totally committed to stopping she could cut it back to once in the morning and once at night, or even just once a day.

Heres what worked for me...... switch it off in the middle of a feeding! Start giving the baby from her breast then switch it with a bottle! But make it so most of the baby's feeding is from the bottle! Or even just try doing the feeding from a bottle and if the baby doesnt want it then do it the switch off way!