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I weaned when I was still doing a morning and bedtime feed. It was cold turkey at 13 months when I got pregnant and she had been at a sleepover and went to bed fine and woke up without asking to breastfeed (although she never asked anyway) so I figured I could do it. I never squeezed my boobs to see if any milk would come out. I tried not to touch them at all as they became a bit engorged and were hard for two weeks. It was uncomfortable, but not unbearable and not quite the same as being engorged when in the early days of breastfeeding. At the end of 3 weeks I noticed that they finally were more soft and I was more comfortable. I didn't know it would take that long, but I guess because I was still doing two feedings it made it a bit harder on my body.

We were down to just nursing at night before bed when my older daughter fully weaned. I didn't notice any engorgement or leaking until about a week later when I woke up with my whole shirt soaked in milk- it was like my boobs were like, oh ok we don't need this any more, bye! But I didn't realize that I was also pregnant at the time so possibly that was making me dry up as well.

I am with you on looking forward to not being home for every single bedtime soon,but not being ready to totally stop. I'm getting close- and I know my daughter will be ready, but she's my last baby so once she stops I'll never breastfeed again.

We weaned very slowly as well and I never had any engorgement afterwards. I didn't really test them out but my daughter did sporadically nurse a few times for a couple weeks after we no longer had any regular nursing sessions. One day I could just tell it was officially gone.