https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:18:11 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517900 Thu, 07 Apr 2016 06:15:49 +0000 MrsSRS 2517900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PawPrints: I'm sure she will be totally fine no matter how you transition! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517875 Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:48:12 +0000 Bluebonnet 2517875@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We replaced 1 bottle a day with a sippy of WCM. Once LO was doing great with cows milk, we replaced her other midday bottle with a sippy of WCM. Then I only nursed morning and night until we were both ready to wean. </p> <p>For pumping, I transitioned to pumping once a day at work (from twice a day) and then eventually stopped pumping and only nursed morning and night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517863 Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:52:44 +0000 PawPrints 2517863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Boopers: Ahhh yes I can't believe it! Props to both of us for making it a year. So you're going to stop pumping but not introduce WCM? Is your freezer stash just going to last a really long time, then?</p> <p>@MrsSRS: She's at daycare so I don't have that level of control over the balance/order/size of her meals - I'm pretty sure they just feed until she seems like she's done eating, which is basically what we do at home anyway. (Or when she starts insistently feeding the dogs). I am hoping to at least switch her from bottles to sippy cups in the next few weeks, and have been introducing WCM solely in the sippy. But I guess we could still try slowly reducing the quantity of breastmilk we send in with her, as a more high-level step. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517770 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 20:57:19 +0000 MrsSRS 2517770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PawPrints: Always a tricky question! My LOs averaged 1/3-2/3 cup of food per meal. Sometimes more. Here's the traditional answer: <a href="http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-and-how-much-to-feed-your-toddler" rel="nofollow">http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-and-how-much-to-feed-your-toddler</a></p> <p>For me, I would decrease bottles by half an ounce every few days and offer a solid snack before the bottles, and offer water and WCM to drink plus three meals and see how LO does. Most LOs up their solid intake as their milk decreases. Then you can stop pumping once you drop the bottles, and nurse as long as you want! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517665 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:37:12 +0000 Boopers 2517665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Happy birthday to your LO! I can't believe our babies turned 1 yesterday 😭</p> <p>We are also still nursing and I have a sizable freezer stash. I dropped to one pump at work last week and have started to use a few ounces of my stash each day. I plan to slowly wean off the last pump and keep pulling from our stash as needed. I don't plan to incorporate WCM yet since we are still nursing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517619 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:01:44 +0000 PawPrints 2517619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSRS: But how do I know if her solids intake is enough? She's great about eating some of everything we put on her tray, but a lot of it gets thrown to the ground.</p> <p>@T.H.O.U.: Mostly happy but I definitely feel ready to at least drop to one pump.</p> <p>@mfa_lady: I like your approach, I'll probably do some version of that.</p> <p>@chopsuey: Thank you!! I almost forgot to take a breath and celebrate, there was a lot of time when I didn't think I could every make it to a year of exclusive nursing/pumping. YAAAAY! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517609 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:51:58 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2517609@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If mom and baby are happy with current routine, keep going! </p> <p>I was ready to start dropping pumping a but dropped one and then waited about 2 months to drop the final one </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517607 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:48:00 +0000 MrsSRS 2517607@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd tailor your pumping to her solids intake. I think it's easy to forget that solids are supposed to replace breastmilk, not WCM. WCM is just a convenient way to get the fat necessary for brain development into a toddler diet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517606 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:47:43 +0000 delight 2517606@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I stopped pumping at that time and was down to just morning and night feedings. I had started LO on WCM around 11 months and she would have it during the day when I was at work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517602 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:40:13 +0000 mfa_lady 2517602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would go down to one pump a day just to get yourself used to it. Start giving her WCM when you're not nursing (or mixing it with your frozen BM stash to start). If you want to be able to nurse all day on the weekends, maybe keep that one pump a day? If not, you could drop it once you feel like you wouldn't be engorged.</p> <p>I did something similar--at 12 months, I went down to 1 pump for a week or so and then dropped that one, too. (It was a tough sell at my job to rationalize pumping past a year, plus I was ready to be done with that part!) I started giving her a mixture of WCM and BM in bottles or straw cups on the weekends, and before long she didn't seem to notice if it was just WCM so I went for it once my stash was gone. I kept nursing in the morning until she was 14 months old and I dried up due to pregnancy. :) </p> <p>Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517598 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:38:22 +0000 chopsuey 2517598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would continue nursing morning/night/wkends, drop your pumping sessions, feed her frozen breast milk and wcm until you stash runs out.<br /> Once your stash runs out, keep nursing morning and night and give her wcm during the day. </p> <p>Happy belated to your LO and congrats! 😊 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumpingnursing-at-12-months#post-2517581 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:17:38 +0000 PawPrints 2517581@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD turned 12 months yesterday. What do I do now? </p> <p>I've been doing 2x/day pumps at work, and nursing morning/night/weekends. I plan to continue the nursing indefinitely. </p> <p>We have given her some WCM and she seemed to like it okay, but didn't guzzle it. I have a freezer stash but I hope to donate most of it to NICU babies. </p> <p>Do I keep pumping once a day until she starts to really eat a lot of WCM? Drop pumping completely and start giving her frozen breastmilk until the WCM is providing a cornerstone of her diet? </p> <p>How does this work. </p>