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I would go down to one pump a day just to get yourself used to it. Start giving her WCM when you're not nursing (or mixing it with your frozen BM stash to start). If you want to be able to nurse all day on the weekends, maybe keep that one pump a day? If not, you could drop it once you feel like you wouldn't be engorged.

I did something similar--at 12 months, I went down to 1 pump for a week or so and then dropped that one, too. (It was a tough sell at my job to rationalize pumping past a year, plus I was ready to be done with that part!) I started giving her a mixture of WCM and BM in bottles or straw cups on the weekends, and before long she didn't seem to notice if it was just WCM so I went for it once my stash was gone. I kept nursing in the morning until she was 14 months old and I dried up due to pregnancy.

Good luck!

I'd tailor your pumping to her solids intake. I think it's easy to forget that solids are supposed to replace breastmilk, not WCM. WCM is just a convenient way to get the fat necessary for brain development into a toddler diet.

@PawPrints: Always a tricky question! My LOs averaged 1/3-2/3 cup of food per meal. Sometimes more. Here's the traditional answer: http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-and-how-much-to-feed-your-toddler

For me, I would decrease bottles by half an ounce every few days and offer a solid snack before the bottles, and offer water and WCM to drink plus three meals and see how LO does. Most LOs up their solid intake as their milk decreases. Then you can stop pumping once you drop the bottles, and nurse as long as you want!

We replaced 1 bottle a day with a sippy of WCM. Once LO was doing great with cows milk, we replaced her other midday bottle with a sippy of WCM. Then I only nursed morning and night until we were both ready to wean.

For pumping, I transitioned to pumping once a day at work (from twice a day) and then eventually stopped pumping and only nursed morning and night.