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I don't feel pressure from anyone but myself. He is thriving on breastmilk and, while I logically know that formula would be JUST as good, I can't bring myself to not make it to a year (especially almost 9 months in).

What I will say is that I've been surprised how long a year seems when you are feeding someone (either nursing or pumping) every 3 to 4 hours. His first year has flown in terms of him, but it's hard to believe I've gotten this far and I still have THREE months left until a year. I don't know if that makes sense at all.

I only put pressure on myself to keep going. I got way more pressure to quit, which really just made me more resolved to keep going.

I think I put the pressure on myself. I was determined to get to a year, and really, I think we could have quit earlier and it would have made life so much easier. But I felt just like you, I could do it and was making enough pumping at work and nursing while home, so really I should, right? I know I would have felt guilty if we had quit earlier, but I shouldn't. And neither should you! Just like everything else that comes with parenting, it is completely your choice. And you know what, your LO is going to be fine, either way!!

Nope! We don't live near family or anyone that was pregnant/with a baby when DS was an infant. I was also the first in my family to BF so I got a lot of push back to not BF when I was pregnant.

I get pressure to wean all the time since E is over a year old. I just ignore it.

I put SO much pressure on myself. The BF itself has been pretty easy for me, but the pumping and constantly worrying about whether I am producing enough for his bottles has been agonizing. DS is just over 11 months in and the pressure got to be too much. I'm now working on night weaning DS and pump weaning myself. I am still planning to BF for a while longer, but I prioritized my need to sleep and get work done during the day.

No, because although it's demanding sometimes, I see it as the best option for my child and it doesn't cost any money! I'll have my body to myself for the rest of my life so I'm okay with nursing as long as my kids want to (within reason). so far they have weaned themselves at 19 months and 16 months.

Like others have said I put the most pressure on myself. I think a lot of it is because it's what my mom did. My mom died 3 years ago so she isn't adding pressure. But more that I think how proud she would have been to have me follow in her footsteps.

With that said I'm not on any type of restricted diet and I'm sure if I was like you it would be a lot harder to keep it up.

My son is 14mo and we only nurse in the mornings now. I would LOVE to quit entirely since he is a really annoying nurser who is constantly groping me. But when I go into his room in the morning, the first thing he says is, "Nuh! Nuh!" (That is how he says the word "nurse".) So I guess I feel pressure from my nursling to continue!

I am going on a 3-night business trip in a week, and I may try to just wean him completely when I get back. We'll see.

@winniebee: Omygosh. I felt like a new woman when it went from 2 to 3 hours between feedings. Then an even newer woman when it spaced out to every 4 hours! Who knew one hour could make such a difference! Hang in there... the restricted diet makes it doubly hard.

I feel pressure to nurse until she self-weans like I did with S (he self weaned at 16 months). I feel for some reason like any less isn't "fair" which is really silly.

With my second one I put pressure on myself to continue even though the MSPI plus a couple other things diet was hard. I sort of felt like I owed it to him since I had BF his brother for a long time. Luckily with time he both started to outgrow some issues plus the feedings got more spaced out so in the end it wasn't too bad.