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At one, I moved towards nursing morning and night, offered milk with meals, and made water available the rest of the day.

i nursed until 18 months, so i only started offering milk really to drop sessions or a couple ounces at meals if she wanted.

I fully weaned at one. He got a bedtime bottle but the rest of the day was milk or water. I started offering him milk about a month before that. At first he drank very little of it but then increased. If you have pumped milk you could try offering that in a cup first, or some people have success mixing the two to switch over.

I supplemented, so at 1 I kept nursing (nursed until almost 23 months) but stopped formula. I kept giving bottles of bm (pumped until about 16 months) when I had them but also gave cups or bottles of wcm when I didn't have enough. Basically, I subbed wcm for formula. If I was doing it again, I might have not put the wcm in bottles--weaning lo off bottles at 17 months was HARD! harder than weaning from nursing at 23 months and paci at 24...

We started mixing cow milk and breastmilk around 1 year in DD's bottles. We had been supplementing with a little bit of formula (also mixed with breastmilk in a bottle), so we just changed the mix. I continued nursing until 19 months, but started dropping feeds until she eventually would just nurse before naps and bed. Then we switched to a sippy cup with milk before naps and bed. Now she just drinks milk with meals.

DD is 12.5 months and we're nursing morning/night/weekends and sending two bottles to daycare. I plan to taper down the daycare breastmilk until she's totally on cow milk and solids there and keep nursing at home as long as we want to, maybe to two years.

I'm on vacation in Mexico right now and just doing nursing and solidsc and water in a sippy here, and so glad we're still nursing since it's a little hit and miss with the solids. Cow milk can wait until we get home, we tried it for a couple weeks with mixed results.

I'm pissed off since I heard our daycare won't allow breastmilk in a sippy. So I don't have a choice but to get her off breastmilk at daycare or else risk her teeth. Maybe could just continue one bottle - her doctor was OK with that.