We are starting to wean at 16 months but I am irrationally nervous that she will suddenly start getting sick more. She goes to daycare and I feel like she gets sick less than the other kiddos because of the nursing and that giving it up will mean snot city.
Anybody have any experience with this? I would be a lot less nervous about weaning if I could put this one worry to rest 
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DD hasn't gotten sick since I weaned her!
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Not any more frequently than he did while breastfeeding. He goes to gym daycare several days a week, and has had one fever and cold since weaning. It wasn't right after weaning either.
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I notice specifically that if I get sick first, my daughter will either not get it, or only get a weaker version. But if she gets sick first, we'll invariably get the same illness. So, I know she's getting the antibodies from my milk. I expect that to go away when she weans some day.
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Not at all! So far at 16 months old, DD has only been sick once, with a double ear-infection while I was still nursing. Nothing since weaning (knock on wood).
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@lizzywiz: I have this same worry! How have things gone?
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She did get a double ear infection (her first and only, knock on wood) a few months after we weaned, but other than that, not particularly.
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My DS was BF until 20 months and he was a TON until 2 yr old - then it finally stopped!
So for us BF had no correlation to being sick
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