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I pretty much followed LO's lead. At 10.5-11 months she dropped from 4-5 nursing sessions plus a bottle of pumped milk to two plus the bottle. She doesn't seem ready to drop the first feeding or bottle, but I think she could take or leave the mid-day feeding. After her first birthday (two weeks!) we will start switching to soy milk with lunch to drop the middle feeding. Once she gets the hang of that we'll stop doing the bottle and give her milk with dinner. We'll stick with the morning feeding as long as she would like.

@hilsy85: Yes, I haven't kept track of how much it's increased since we always offer water at every meal, but now we also keep a straw cup out while she's playing and she'll grab it and drink whenever she wants to.

By 1 year, assuming that they are eating a good amount of food, they only need to drink 16 oz of cow's milk a day which is how you would end up having fewer nursing sessions. You can gradually start dropping one at a time. I could never get my LO into a sippy cup so we went straight to a straw cup at around 1 year. By 18 months she was drinking from an open cup.

Have you read Sherry's BFibg and weaning experience? She talks about weaning at 1. Although I do want to punch her for having a baby that slept all night from the start. Haha

http://www.younghouselove.com/2011/07/14-months-of-breastfeeding/

I wonder about this too. I imagine it will be a gradual process.

@hilsy85: This is A too. He doesn't really cry. I just end up feeding him every 3 hours. Sometimes he does get cranky to nurse but not always. I think if I waited until he cried, he could probably go 3.5-4 hours between nursing sessions and then I worry he's going to wake up even more at night to nurse. I think, as with all new things, when the time comes, you'll know what to do. Or you figure it out. I find that with each new stage, I start stressing about what I should be doing or how are we going to transition and I always figure it out and it's no big deal.

@hilsy85: haha yep, if only our babies could be as easy as Sherry makes Clara out to be. When A was younger, he used to nurse every 2 hours during the day. That was back when he was sleeping all night. I've tried to get him back to that, but it doesn't work. He's too interested in being a busy body now. He has no time to nurse these days. lol