https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:11:59 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself/page/2#post-439494 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:21:36 +0000 eeh 439494@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I won't nurse her past age 1. Hoping we can make it to that point. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-439488 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:11:23 +0000 cyndistar3 439488@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I will let her decide when she is done but I hope she is done before 2 years old lol... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-439486 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:09:40 +0000 littlek 439486@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My goal was 6 months and we made that. I'm going to keep going until my supply runs low. It's hard pumping because I have a very demanding job and have to travel for work between DC and CA. Soooo, we will see how long I can keep it up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-439462 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:43:58 +0000 brownie 439462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He is getting cut off at 2. I personally never imagined going this long (19 months) but we have. I'm gonna start cutting one feed a month until we are done. I don't think he would self wean. I wanna try for the next in August and have to be done breast feeding in order to do the FET. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-439438 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:16:40 +0000 sorrycharlie 439438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm honestly not sure! I never saw myself breastfeeding past a year, so we will see. I definitely want to pump if she self-weans before a year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-438621 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:19:17 +0000 blackbird 438621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think my 'goal' is about 6 months. We'll have to see with work and everything. I'm not keen on staying a bunch of extra hours to make up for all the time lost, when i could be spending it at home with her! But it heavily, heavily depends on how easy it comes to me and how feasible it is. If it's just going well, it'll be much easier to keep going. But i'm not going to set myself a lofty goal and then get disappointed </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-438591 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:41:58 +0000 808love 438591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrsbells: I stopped pumping at 12 mos and work full time. Thought I would dry up. Supply has been good..almost at two years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-437395 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:21:18 +0000 Mrsbells 437395@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My goal is 12 months for now and then I will stop pumping. Right now we are at 7.5 months so its looking good. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-437385 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:17:18 +0000 LivsMama 437385@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My goal was a year, then allow self-weaning. Liv is 16.5 months and still going strong, but I think Im ready to be done. She shows NO interest in weaning, so Im going to have to do it. We just moved into a new house though, so I need to get through that adjustment period first. Shes down to bedtime, wakeup, and the "yay mama is home from work! Now gimme milkies" sessions now lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-437375 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:12:33 +0000 lemong 437375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My goal is a year, but I'll let LO dictate what she wants. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-437367 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:08:15 +0000 photojane 437367@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>baby girl isn't here yet, but right now the plan is to start weaning between 6-9 months old. as she starts eating more solids, i'll bf less. we may make it to a year, but i do know that i don't want to go longer than that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-437364 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:05:57 +0000 Arden 437364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm planning on breastfeeding until age 2 if LO still wants to, and after that we will see. I think sometime during LO's second year it will quit, one way or another. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-437360 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:03:02 +0000 pastemoo 437360@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: LOL. My cousin stopped nursing her daughter at age 5--but at that point it wasn't even a daily thing. It was almost more of an "Oh, can I have some mommilk?" And by the time she prepared her shirt the daughter forgot about it.No clue how she kept up her supply nursing so occasionally.</p> <p>I plan to do EVERYTHING in my power to make it to a year, and moderate effort to make it to 2 years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-437343 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:57:15 +0000 lemondrop 437343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>His decision with the exception of night weaning, that one is my decision. We are in the middle of re-night weaning... we had it, then he got sick and we went on vacation, and we fell back into it again.</p> <p>My original goal was 1 year, but that came so fast, I'm not willing to let it go yet. Everyone seems to have the perception that I'm jumping ship on his birthday, grrr. We'll get around to weaning when the time is right.</p> <p>At 11 months, he doesn't want to nurse nearly as often, especially since he loves real food. Plus we want to add to the family soon, so we are seeing what happens. We have a big freezer stash, so he will have breast milk for some time regardless. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-437335 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:54:36 +0000 sera_87 437335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>self wean if i have my way. we'll see what happens when i head back to work though, </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-437318 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:45:11 +0000 808love 437318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Two weeks from now..she will be 23 mos...and I want to completely wean by two years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-436375 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:06:23 +0000 Mrs. Superhero 436375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm planning to night wean by a year and fully wean before two. I nursed TG to 17 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-436353 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:01:22 +0000 chopsuey 436353@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I let LO go for as long as she wanted. She still asks for it and I think she's getting colostrum.<br /> Baby boy.. will be weaned the day he turns 1! I'm so excited to have my body back. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-436226 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:38:24 +0000 MamaCate 436226@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO just turned a year and we are still BF/pumping. I am planning to pump until christmas when we are traveling so I can continue to BF full time, then day wean when we get back. Stopping pumping will be my christmas present to myself!</p> <p>As far as fully weaning, I am hoping to follow her lead but maybe by 18 months to be done? We'll see... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-436197 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:30:05 +0000 Mrs. Confetti 436197@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hoped to go to a year but only made it five months... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-436191 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:27:21 +0000 rachiecakes 436191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I let DS dictate.<br /> I stopped pumping during the day at work because it was taking up so much of my work time and I wasn't really producing much during the day. This was at 9 months when we started reverse cycling. Not too much fun with my work schedule but I loved nursing him too much to stop. It was our time together during the work week. He slowly started sleeping longer stretches until he just slept through the night. I was still nursing him before bed and in the morning, but he started he refusing those feedings in favor of playtime and other things by 11 months. I would've kept going if he did. I miss it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-436055 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:54:42 +0000 Maysprout 436055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 18 months I'm trying to encourage her to eat more and drink more from a cup. She had been doing good before she got molars but she got molars at 16 months, all four one after the other, and became a lil nursing machine. So I'm trying to gently encourage a bit less nursing. My hope was that I'd get pregnant and my supply would go down. But that doesn't seem to be happening with her still nursing so frequently. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-435892 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:22:38 +0000 autumnlove 435892@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My goal is one year for Baby 2! Hope I don't get pregnant before that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-435862 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:19:17 +0000 Bao 435862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My goal is at least a year, hoping to make it that long and let her do her thing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-435649 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:35:19 +0000 Kemma 435649@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Baby and I are still having feeding issues at almost eight weeks so I'm just hoping to breast feed for as long as I can.</p> <p>All going well I guess I'll just keep feeding as long as Baby wants to feed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-435634 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:30:30 +0000 mediagirl 435634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: (but not really)? :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-435622 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:28:13 +0000 Mrs. Pen 435622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: omg that's amazing!!! I smiled reading that - soo happy for you! Go baby turtledoves :):) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-435597 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:24:10 +0000 KT326 435597@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to let him wean when he is ready but my supply is slowly dropping. He is 8.5 months old and I may start the weaning process around 10 months if I can make it that long. I can only pump one time at work and I hate taking time to pump at home. I feel like it takes away from the time I have to spend with him during the week which isn't much. Right now we only nurse in the morning and at night during the week. We mostly nurse on the weekends but supplement if he still seems hungry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-435580 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:21:48 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 435580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am going to let her wean herself. Even if it means night nursing when she is 7.</p> <p>Just kidding. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-a-set-date-to-stop-breastfeeding-or-do-you-plan-on-letting-your-lo-wean-herself#post-435569 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:20:07 +0000 mrskc 435569@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd like to BF for at least a year. I'll decide what to do when I get to that 1 year point. I'm only 2 months in right now. </p>