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Shorter than expected with G & this time I'd say P & I will definitely go longer than expected (original goal was 1 year & we're at 11 months no end in sight).

I originally envisioned 6 months as my goal. We're almost at 7 months right now at still breastfeeding. Next goal is 9 months.

Shorter with DS and I think I will go longer with DD we are at 5 months now and she is a boobie monster. I now plan to go to at least 2 years old instead of my original goal of 1 year.

I'm not sure yet!!! It's been a year thus far and I expected to make it sometime between 1-2 years. If I go past 2 years, it will be longer than expected, if I stop between now and 2 years it will be as expected.

I wanted to make it to one year, but now, at 6 months, I am happy to have made it this far! I am still pumping and BF at night and on weekends, but I am starting to day wean because I just can't keep this up.

ETA: My response would change if I was not a WOHM!

I'm about what I expected. We just hit the 1 year mark, and that was my goal, though I hoped to go a little longer and so far so good. She is down to 2x day nursing sessions though, and is showing less and less interest in nursing these days.

I went much shorter than I expected. My goal was to get to six months and then a year. She got down to only nursing twice a day around 5.5-6 months and stopped nursing altogether at 6.5 months. She finished up her last bit of breast milk at 7 months old. I think I know what caused her to start to wean herself (and therefore why I dried out) so we can try to make it to a year next time.

My goal was 6 months, but I only lasted a week. but even for that week we weren't accomplishing much. It was beyond my control, but I still had a really hard time with not meeting my expectations.

Shorter than expected. Hoping to be EBF until solids.
Reality - 3 months.

I BF for 14m with DD, my goal was "at least a year"; stopped because DH was getting antsy about it and DD lost interest. Not sure how long I'll go with DS but my goal again is "at least a year" but ultimately I think I'd like to meet (if not exceed) how long I went with DD.

Much longer than I expected. We are at 14.5 months and down to just one nursing session a day and he is starting to wean himself.
I'm glad he is the one making the decision and not me.

during pregnancy- goal was 6 months to a year
after birth- goal was just making it another day!! i hated it in the beginning!
i absolutely love it now and am 4 months in, and i can definitely see making it at least a year

First child shorter, second child longer!

I voted longer but it was sort of a combo.

My initial cut off age was a year before DS was born. With all of his allergies it became 18 months and then I was going to try for 2 years but he self weaned at 21 months, so really it was a lot longer than I expected.

Dd almost 2 years and will probably go longer (longer than I planned).

DS I want to do a year but have a feeling I'll go longer. May even go 2 years with him. We shall see!

First child, longer. Second child, looks like it will be shorter because my supply is dwindling! I wanted to go 12 months but I'll be lucky if I make it to 9 months.

My first goal (before she was born) was 6 months. When she was here, my goal became a year. Now we are just over 6 months, so I met my original goal. I plan to nurse up to 2 years, unless she weans before that.

I expected 1 year, but my milk never came in, so I only fed her the small amount of milk that I produced for the first 3 months. We had to heavily supplement with formula the entire time, so we eventually just switched over to formula only.