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Congratulations on making it so far!!

I started dropping pump sessions around 11 months with Logan. I was hoping to continue nursing morning and night though, so I dropped them really slowly, only dropping one pump session every couple weeks and then supplementing any BM I needed with my stash. After weaning, I've continued to give BM from my stash until I need to start mixing to be fully on WCM before running out (I'm planning on mixing 1-2 oz of WCM with 4-5 oz of BM and gradually upping the WCM and decreasing the BM until we've fully transitioned).

@Ms.Badger: Logan drinks out of a straw cup (Zoli). I transitioned him from a bottle to a straw cup first (removed one bottle a week and replaced with the straw cup).

As for how much BM you need for mixing, you can really tailor that based on how much you have or how long you want to draw it out. I have a huge stash, so I'm planning on doing 1 oz WCM and 5 oz BM in each cup for a week, then 2 oz WCM and 4 oz BM for a week, etc. To do that, I need about 420 oz of BM. But if I had less, I'd just do more WCM and less BM each week, or increase the WCM amount every few days instead of weekly.

ETA: Just to be clear, Logan drinks four 6 oz cups a day - he's completely weaned. I could've drawn out my transition to WCM or started later if we were still nursing morning/night and I didn't have to use my stash for those times.

I just went through all of this, and it worked out well, so I'll tell you what I did.
I started cutting back pumping sessions at work at 11 months. I had around 250 oz frozen, so I wasn't trying to build on that. I cut out a pumping session every 2ish weeks, so before 11 months I would nurse and pump before work, pump three times at work, and nurse before bed. I cut the pump before work first (about 10.5months), and then the others.
I noticed a drop in supply once I started cutting back, so I didn't have as much of a stash as I thought. I did have enough though, but barely.
I started giving one serving of wcm a day about a week before her birthday. She loved it, and I didn't mix it at all.

Ped said 11 months for introducing WCM during the day was fine. LO transitioned to daycare at this time without any breastmilk and just did WCM from a straw cup.

Lo is 11 months. We nurse 2 or 3 times a day and he has one 6oz bottle of wcm 3 days a week when he is with his babysitter. I started giving wcm at 11 months. Before that it was pumped milk or a little formula. I quiet pumping at 10 months. And it was OK if I missed a session here or there. I think we will keep morning and night for a while. But I am pregnant so who really knows. Pumping was really hard with my work schedule. I was so happy to let it go.