https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 08 May 2026 05:46:40 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470470 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:40:02 +0000 cam 2470470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ms.Badger: at first only 1 or 2 oz per meal but he picked it up as the nursing cut back. I don't think he drinks as much as he did bm, about 12 oz a day but he's a good eater. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470454 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:56:41 +0000 maddyz 2470454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470435 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:08:45 +0000 PawPrints 2470435@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Following, I haven't totally decided what our approach will be yet. LO is 10.5 months and I just dropped my third pump at work about a week ago. It hasn't really saved me any time though since I'm pumping the same amount of milk (and same number of minutes) in those two pump sessions as I was in three sessions previously. </p> <p>I would really like to donate my freezer stash since I feel strongly about donating if I'm able to do so (same as my feelings about being a blood donor). But I don't know that I will donate the entire stash, since it would be so nice to use it to keep giving her a bottle a day at daycare after I stop pumping. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470401 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:23:24 +0000 teawithpaloma 2470401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470400 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:18:25 +0000 Ms.Badger 2470400@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: Thanks! I was planning on day weaning and then tackling night/morning weaning, but I like the idea of bottle weaning and then BM weaning.<br /> @cam: How much WCM was he taking initially? Did you work up to the same amount as his bottles were before switching?<br /> @LAZB: You are a GODESS for pumping that often at 10 months, here I am complaining about my 2 work pumps. I hope J just loves straight-up WCM, no mixing would be ideal </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470342 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:28:13 +0000 LAZB 2470342@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just went through all of this, and it worked out well, so I'll tell you what I did.<br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470312 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:53:22 +0000 cam 2470312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wasn't pumping but did wean at a year because I was going back to work and our schedules just didn't work to keep bf. I started giving him whole milk in a straw cup about 11 months with his solid food. He wasn't super into it at first but drank more and more. I cut out one feeding per week and it went smoothly. We kept his bedtime bottle for a while after so I would probably plan to use the extra for that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470309 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:51:03 +0000 Adira 2470309@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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).</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470300 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:42:44 +0000 Ms.Badger 2470300@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: Thanks! Did you do all those "mixes" in sippy or straw cups or in bottle? How much BM did you need for mixing? FWIW, J is currently taking 2 6 oz bottles while I'm at work </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470297 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:38:19 +0000 Adira 2470297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Congratulations on making it so far!!</p> <p>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). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-ready-to-wean-at-1-year#post-2470280 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:24:42 +0000 Ms.Badger 2470280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>J is almost 10 months and I'm planning on weaning at 1 year. I have a pretty healthy stash of BM in our freezer (200-250 oz) and am wondering how to best make use of this stash going forward. I would love to cut-back on pumping at work to once a day (from current of twice a day) and just supplement the rest of what he needs (while I'm at work) from my stash. I have enough to do this starting today, continue with the same feedings until 12 months and have at least 50 oz left. For moms who have been there, is this a reasonable plan? Would it be better to have a larger stash left over for any reason? </p> <p>Also, when did you attempt giving your LO WCM to see if they'd drink it, or if you needed to slowly transition using BM?</p> <p>Thanks! :happy: </p>