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I nursed while pregnant for about half of the pregnancy before my son self-weaned around age 18 months. I think he was not getting much milk at that point, in fact he bit me a few times which I think was due to that. He actually started nursing again when my other baby was born! Your discomfort may be temporary, so hang in there if you're not sure you want to wean.

I am nursing my son (15 onths old) and I'm 25 weeks pregnant. He nurses 3 times a day and shows no signs of weaning so I'm not pushing it. Around 12 weeks my milk changed and the quantity dropped significantly. It was very painful from about 12-20 weeks but has since gotten much less painful. He definitly still gets something (colostrom I guess?) because he often let's his mouth run all over during a nursing session. Got to love a wet shirt after nursing lol.

So my questions are:
Did you wean as soon as you got your BFP? I weaned shortly after. My LO was 14 months old.

How long did you nurse for while pregnant? A couple of weeks

How long did it take you to wean? It took no time at all! We were down to 2 sessions already. In the morning I would take LO straight down for breakfast with solids and with a straw cup of whole milk instead of nursing first and she was so into eating her breakfast she didn't seem to mind skipping the nursing. At night we would nurse before bed, but I started to give her dinner right before bed and she was too full to care that we again skipped nursing.

A couple times after we weaned outside of the morning and night nursing times she would nuzzle my chest like she wanted to nurse, but turns out she was just hungry/thirsty and a snack with milk satiated her.

She still uses a paci for comfort so I think nursing was more of a food thing for her and by making sure she had big enough meals she didn't mind weaning at all.

37 weeks today and still nursing my 21 month old. It was important to ME to breastfeed DS1 for at least 2 years, so even when I almost dried up during the second trimester I continued tooffer it. Now I'm back to full-on colostrum and my only complaint is how oftenDS1 poops since colostrum is alaxative.

The nipple sensitivity will pass. Your milk will slowly change but ifyou WANT to continue there's no reason to force your child to wean.

I'm 10 weeks and nursing my 17 month old at bed time and early morning. I'm planning on giving up over the next few months, nursing works well for us but I'm ready to quit. If I'm honest, the only thing holding me back is convenience, the only thing that makes LO go back to sleep at 4.30 in the morning is a nursing session. And I don't want to get up at 4.30am!