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Before LO, my goal was at least a year, preferably two. After LO, I had awful supply issues so I set a realistic goal of 6 months and an ideal goal of a year. My milk dried up shortly after he turned 6 months.

My short-term goals were 1 months, 3 months, 6 month and 9 months and my long-term goal was 1 year. Anything past that was lagniappe. E weaned at 15 months because of illness (although I don't think we would have lasted much longer past that anyway).

Lo will be 5 months old on Saturday. I went into this without a set goal in mind. Right now, 6 months is in our sights and we decided we would reevaluate then.

I knew I wanted to try to breastfeed, but I didn't have my heart set on a specific timeframe because I was scared it wouldn't work out. When he was born and everything seemed to be going well, I set a goal of 1 year. We're 3.5 months in and going strong. Someone asked me Saturday how long I was going to breastfeed and when I said 1 year, they seemed surprised, saying that they didn't think I'd go that long (breastfeeding around here isn't the norm). I've been pleasantly surprised how smoothly it's gone so far (eek, hope I don't jinx myself!).

My long term goal was/is a year but I had short term ones to get me through the rough times! We had a lot of trouble in the beginning and as a result,I EP. R is almost 9 months and I'm still pumping...

My goal was a year and we made it!

My goal was always 1 year+. We're less than two months away and shouldn't have any issues making it to a year. I'm planning to start slowly weaning her at 11 months (I go back to work one week after her first birthday), but we might keep the first morning session after one year. Haven't decided yet.

I went in with the idea that I would try but if it didn't work, so be it. My big goal was to make it to six months but I broke it up into smaller goals to start - first the colostrum, then the first two weeks, etc.

We passed the six month mark and I couldn't bear the thought of weaning, which surprised the heck out of me as I'd never been super gung-ho about BF'ing before having my LO. We continued for 13 months and weaned when I was 3 months pregnant with our second LO.

i wanted to do at least a year and i was open to longer. and that's exactly what we're doing.

Before LO was born I planned on 6 months because our classes at the hospital suggested ebf for 6 months. Shortly after he was born, I realized I could do this for my whole one year mat leave. Now we are going on 16 months...

I had wanted to nurse to two years and I was open to longer if my child wanted it. He ended up self weaning at 16 months!

I never had a goal in mind but figured a few months. Well here we are at almost a year. DS had other plans, he would never drink from a bottle. That is ok, I've enjoyed nursing. Right now we are daytime weaning for when I go back to work in a couple weeks. We will keep the morning and evening for now. I don't have an end date in mind, I think I will just let DS take the lead.

I thought I would try, but I was convinced I would hate it and stop as soon as I went back to work at 2.5 months, or if there were any issues. To my surprise, breastfeeding went really well for me, I've never given LO any formula, and I don't foresee stopping until he weans himself, even if it's 2, 3, or more years. We're at 9 months now.

I am the lone 'never planned to' I did a lot of research on it while pregnant and in my particular situation, I felt, and still 1 year later feel, that it was the correct decision for us.

I planned to let my daughter self wean, so I was surprised to find myself pushing her to wean at 28 months. She and I were ready, and it was the right time, so I'm really happy about it. She would have nursed for years more, had I let her. I'm really proud of our nursing relationship.

With LO #1 I was scared that it would be really difficult so I set a goal of 6 months. It was really hard...we made it to 3.

With LO #2 I was worried that we'd have the same issues so I went in without any expectations about how long we'd go- I just planned on continuing as long as we could depending on the situation. Things have been smooth with her and we've had zero issues. We're 3.5 months in and my goal is now 12-18 months.

@Mrs. Twine:

I started out willing to try but no time-frame in mind. Ended up breastfeeding until 13 months. We were lucky and didn't have any issues. When we have another baby I'm hoping our breastfeeding journey will last until 18 months.

@Pepper: my breast feeding journey sounds very much like yours.

While I was pregnant I thought I'd like to EBF for a year, but that if it didn't work out I wouldn't go crazy over it. Ha. I was out-of-my-mind obsessed with getting my supply up when I had issues.

I knew I was battling supply issues from about 4 weeks in and my goal at that time was 8 weeks, then 12, and then once we started supplementing and I pumped to get my supply up I thought "wow, we can totally do this until at least six months!" However, returning to work when he was 3.5 months has made my supply drop drastically, no matter what I've done, and the only breastmilk he gets is at motn wakings and first feeding in the morning. It makes me sad

I had an awful time BF DS, so the goals were week to week in the beginning! When we finally got all the issues worked out, the goal was 6 months but we made it to 13 months!

LO2 is 13 weeks and I don't have a goal. Ideally, we would make it to at least 1 year because in my mind I want to give her the same amount of time as DS, but I know anything could happen between now and then.