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16 months and going strong! I stopped pumping at a year. She gets 8oz of cows milk during the day, along with other sources of dairy and nurses 2-4 times a day.
I didn't supplement. When my supply dipped when I started working, I added in an extra pumping session in the morning and at night to get enough for daycare. It sucked, but only lasted a month or so.

I nursed DD1 till 27m and pumped till 13m when my pimping output was very poor.
I did supplement because I had low supply. Tried all the tricks minus domperidone

We nursed until 14.5 months when Xander self-weaned. I pumped for a full year and then cut back on pumping and day nursing sessions. No supplementing.

@mfa_lady: How much is your LO drinking while you are at work? Breastfed babies shouldn't need to increase their volume because the milk get fattier as they get older, and thus they get more calories from the same amount of milk.

Xander got three 5 oz bottles while I was at work (nursed at 5:30 a.m., bottles at 9, 12, and 3, nursed again in the evening) until around 8-9 months. Then I gave him 6 oz bottles because I cut out a MOTN feed, but I don't think increasing his bottle amount was necessary at that point - I could've just increased solids if he was actually hungry.

Still going strong at 20 months! I nursed/pumped until 12 months, and we've been nursing once a day since 14 months.

I nursed/pumped until 13 months and never supplemented. Most nights, I would pump an extra time before bed in order to add to my freezer stash or make up for any discrepancies for that day.

I didn't vote a time, but I'm still nursing morning/evening at 9.5 months even though I stopped pumping at 7.5 months. I don't nurse on the weekends outside of morning/evening, though. I didn't have supply issues but pumping at work was getting really inconvenient and we had always planned to use formula in some form or fashion anyway. I was never even really planning on BFing at all so I'm happy with our setup and feel no guilt about using formula. No plans to end the morning/evening sessions anytime soon - we will wait and see but so far, so good! It's actually my ideal setup and DS is happy, healthy, and growing, so good all around

@mfa_lady: Power pumping is basically where you pump on and off for a set amount of time, generally in 10 minute increments. I would power pump for an hour, so I would pump for 10 minutes, then stop pumping for 10 minutes (but stayed hooked up), then pump for 10 minutes, and so on for an hour. So I got in three 10 minute mini pumping sessions in an hour time. It's supposed to simulate cluster feeding and tell your body that your baby needs more milk.

With DD1, I nursed/pumped for 7 months before she decided she didn't want to nurse any more (I continued pumping exclusively for another 3 months before calling it quits). DD2 nursed until 12.5 months. I had to supplement a little with each girl because I just didn't make enough milk.

ETA: My best advice is to not hate the pump. I didn't mind the pump breaks - I looked at it as time away from work that I could just go through and look at pics of my kid or catch up on news. I also told myself that it's ok to supplement - just do what I could. I think that helped to relax me enough to keep going as long as I did.

@mfa_lady: Good luck! I usually power pumped at night after the baby was in bed and just watched a show. Definitely helped.

I nursed till 6 months and then started to wean her. She was 7.5 months when I was done. She got one bottle of BM a day for another month.

I nursed til 15 months and did not supplement. I would pump in the MOTN when she would STTN to get extra milk. I stopped pumping at 10.5 months and used up my freezer stash to get to 12 months. Then she went to WCM at daycare and i nurse morning and evening only.

Nursed until 17 months.
Pumped 3x/day and around 10 months cut out one session, at 11 months, cut out another. I did not produce a lot but I would pump extra to have on hand if needed. I ended up supplementing a little - I never had to buy formula, I just used what was sent for free to me (samples). Just do your best and try not to be too hard on yourself if you have to supplement. Sometimes babies go through growth spurts that as pumping moms, we just can't keep up with.

Nursed/Pumped until 13/12 months respectively! Had a dip in my supply when AF returned at 4.5 months pp. Took mag+calcium supplements along with mother's milk tea and fenugreek pills, etc. Always took a hit monthly around AF time, but was able to pump just enough to keep up with the small frozen stash I had going back to work and cycling my frozen pile.

@mfa_lady: totally fine! She had it early on though. She wouldn't take a bottle and I was sick of wasting BM.

there were a couple of months around the 5-6 month point where LO's intake at daycare was outstripping my supply. i did two things: (1) added a couple ounces of formula to each bottle that i sent to daycare to cover the difference; and (2) started pumping more to increase my supply. not sure if my supply really increased or if LO's intake just went down because of solids or who knows.

as LO's solids intake went up and time went on, i didn't need to supplement anymore and was able to provide him breastmilk until 12 months (i didn't have a strong interest in going past a year).

A year. We had latch issues and supply issues from the very beginning, so we always supplemented with formula from day 2 until she turned 1.

I went to 16 months. I had to start supplementing at 6 months, even though I pumped three times a day at work. I pumped up until about two weeks after her first birthday as she was sick on the time. I had dropped to two sessions around ten months. We then went to just wak-ep and bed time nursing, she dropped the bedtime one on her own at 14 months and we quite the morning one at 16 months cold turkey and she never cared. I don't think she was getting much at that point. My pump output was almost never more than 12 ounces in a day. I hope pumping goes better this time or I may hang up the horns sooner.