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I was hoping to make it a year but by 11 months I had to force him to nurse. The day he looked up and laughed at me when I tried, I knew we were cool and we were done. No regrets.

21 months and while on an elimination diet. My ultimate goal was 1 year. At one year it became clear that continuing to nurse had became a necessity with his diet restriction and needed to be done as long as possible. My comfort level cut off would have been 24 months but he stopped cold turkey on his own at 21. He still gets some frozen breastmilk daily which will run out right at his 2nd birthday.

So far we're still breastfeeding at 6 months - I wish she'd take a bottle, though, because I'm afraid weaning (at 1 year) is going to be a nightmare. Girl knows what she wants and is SO dramatic about it if she doesn't get it!

3.5 months. I wanted to try to make it to 6, but it just did not come very easily for either of us. I actually started exclusively pumping at 3 weeks b/c I was just exhausted. I felt like an enormous failure and still do sometimes. Especially when I have someone point out that I didn't stick it out for him.

My long term goal has been 1 year and M turned 11 months today and we're still going strong. Not sure what my plan is after that! The plan now is to introduce cow's milk around 13 months so I guess I'll reassess then!

@anbanan15: you're amazing! I don't know if I would have made it this far with that much dietary restrictions.

@cascademom: something similar happened to me at 9months along with my period coming back. I upped my water intake, took MMP again, pumped like crazy. After about 2 weeks I evened back out. You can do it!

13 months. My goal was 1 year, so I'm happy and proud that we accomplished it

6 months was my goal. I stopped completely by 7 months, my goal was to have enough frozen to last DD until she was 1 (shes 9 months now) so far so good!

Going on 2 yrs 1 day with dd
3+ months so far with DS

We are going onto 14 months soon and are down to 2 sessions a day - mornings and bedtime. I'm going to continue this until DD self weans or turns two. It's really easy now and I enjoy the downtime with her.

2 months, I was exclusively pumping from the beginning. It was a nightmare and my milk hurt her tummy. She was in pain, switched to formula and she was a new baby.

Still bfing at 7 months. He's been super distracted lately and tends to bite so I've been offering formula more often. I kind of feel the end is near, but we'll see.

She's 9.5 months and still getting breastmilk. I'm tired of pumping at work but I'll try to keep my two pump sessions up (I dropped from 3 recently) until 1 year. I guess I should just look at the calendar and realize we're really not that far away from one year...

I have some milk stashed in my freezer but it's not much - maybe a week's worth of daycare bottles. I am ready to be done breastfeeding. There, I said it.

We made it to 13 months.

12.5 months. He would've weaned earlier if I had let him, I think, but I was bound and determined to get him to a year, and then let him make the choice. He weaned quickly after that. I actually had enough milk frozen that he was still getting a bag of thawed breastmilk in a sippy cup once a day until he was 14.5 months.

@2PeasinaPod: This sounds just like me. DD is 10 weeks right now, and I started EP at 4 weeks. My supply is getting worse and worse. I'm really hoping to make it to 6 months, but I'm doubtful that will happen. It makes it even worse that all my friends/family had enormous success - some even pumping upwards of a gallon a day!! - so they don't understand my problems and think I'm just not trying hard enough.

She was exclusively BM for 5 months but my freezer stash ran out and now she is supplemented with formula and she still nurses from me.

At 10.5 months we're still going strong. My goal was 6 months.

@cascademom: I am getting over a sinus infection myself. The antibiotics totally helped, but I am still not quite myself. It definitely impacted my supply as well. Hope you feel better soon.

@swurlygurl: supply issues are so frusterating! I'm sorry!

@anbanan15: WOW! You rock!!! I'm so impressed!

My original goal was 1 year, but I am finding it harder than I thought to pump enough for my LO when I am at work. I am still hoping to EBF until 6 months (another 8-9 weeks), but I know that is really going to take some hard work. Beyond that, we'll see... I want to keep breastfeeding in some capacity until at least 1 yr. It is very hard though with work.

Moms who made it 1 yr + - were any of you WOHM? How did you do it?!

We're at 5 months so far, and I originally thought I wanted to stop at 6 months, but now I'm so conflicted about how long to go for! I never had 1 year as my goal, but he likes it so much and I have to say I like it too, much more than I expected to. I think I'll be sad when I stop. On the other hand, I'm not looking forward to pumping at work, and I really would like to have my body back (and not have to worry about wearing clothing that works with nursing).