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For the first five months, LO was a boob addict and I was quite nervous about weaning him. However, around 6-7 months, he began to enjoy the bottle equally, which was a surprise to me.
When it was time to wean, I dropped my mid-day pumping session first. I was able to nurse in the morning and at night for 2-3 weeks after that. There's a possibility that I could have continued to keep those sessions for longer than that (it was hard for me to tell if I was drying up), but we both seemed ready to move fully to the bottle.

I know that this isn't the case for everyone but I was also surprised that I never experienced engorgement. Although I was worried at first, the whole process took about three weeks and was fairly intuitive. LO took to formula right away and his digestive system didn't show any signs of distress with the transition.

I hope you also have a easy transition! GL!!!

@singingbee: I posted a thread kind of about this - weaning at 6 months - and I only got one response but it was really helpful if you want to go find it! We will probably wean before LO can just go straight to cow's milk, and I think the best way to do it from what I've heard is to just switch out one nursing/pumping session for formula every week until you are down to just morning & night. I figure since I have supply issues at that point I will just naturally dry up & we will comfort nurse twice a day until LO is over it.

while my timeline was different, dropping pumping and nursing sessions definitely lessened my supply. the whole process took a few weeks (i dropped 1 or 2 a week, and then went cold turkey when i was down to 1 or 2 nursing sessions).

i supplemented with formula on and off during the first year--i usually mixed some formula into a breastmilk bottle. your LO may or may not have issues with transitioning to formula. so you could mix bm and formula to start, but you may be able to go straight to formula!

don't know if any of that was helpful, but good luck!

I've been starting to wonder about this also! DS is 7 months, and I'd like to wean by 1 year. I also have a freezer stash. I currently pump just enough for DS for daycare the next day, but I have a feeling once I start dropping pumping sessions, my supply will decrease accordingly. I also get clogged ducts easily so I'm not sure how to approach it without getting clogged ducts that require emptying my boobs to remove....