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My ultimate goal was one year. I stopped pumping around 13 months bc I wasn't getting much output. LO is 14 months now and we still nurse 2x daily. Not sure when I'm planning to stop yet!

ETA: but my max is 2 years. I also supplemented with formula through out and pumped at 3 different jobs. 2 of which were in bathrooms.

My plan was to breastfeed her as long as I could and to pump at work until close to 1 year. I made it to a year, I no longer pump and she no longer "needs" her nursing sessions. We still enjoy 3-4 sessions a day, though and we will wean when she's ready (or when I'm just DONE, which I'm no where close at 13 months.

My ideal goal is to basically bf until one of us isn't willing anymore. I can't imagine going up to as old as 4, but definitely 2. I'm not really sure how to help my odds of making the goal, but plan to research it a lot more once we're preg. I'm also going to have to figure out a way to be okay if we have to use formula. Right now I would feel HORRIBLE if I did. (Though it's worth noting that I'm completely understanding of other people who do. I just can't do it myself.) Also, I'll be a SAHM so that'll help since I won't have to deal with pumping at work and things.

with #2, my goal is to get to 3m at least. I got to 3m with my son even WITH all our issues of latching, MSPI and low supply.
So, def until 3 months.
Then at that point, if I make it, I will continue to 6m. At 6m, i'll reassess. I can not take any longer than 6m out of school after I had #2, so I know we will either stop after 6m or do a 50/50 thing with formula. I am not pumping at school....
But then again, I am only in class for maybe 2h a day or 3h, so I may not miss a feeding.
Bottom line: I'm taking it basically month by month, but doing at least 3m.

@regberadaisy: Ugh, that would be awful! But yep, that'd make me feel just fine about it. Sorry you had to go through that!

I hope to provide her with breast milk in some capacity until she is 1. I'm slowly starting to drop sessions now (she's 7.5 months) and will drop 1 session a month until she is 1.

If she wants to nurse morning and evening, I'm happy to do so as long as she desires, but I don't expect that to last very long at all since she was never that wild about nursing in general.

I didn't really have a goal. I never thought of NOT BFing as even an option. Glad we were able to do it. 14 months and no weaning in sight.

My original goal was to try, and it would be okay if breastfeeding didn't work out. Once LO came, I knew that breastfeeding would be impossible since he couldn't latch and barely drank out of a bottle. I chose to EP from day two, and my goals changed from breastfeeding to exclusively pumping. I started at 3 months, which extended to 6. After that I try to take it one month at a time until I reached a year. I definitely surpassed my goal.

My goal is to let LO self-wean. But I do want to have another baby in a couple years, so if AF hasn't returned when he's 2, I may consider weaning then. I think I'll just have to make that decision if I'm faced with it, because forced-weaning seems so sad!

My goal now (still preg) is exclusive breastmilk for 1 year, then see how it goes. I also hope to pump and have DH or someone else feed the baby at least one bottle a day from pretty early on, so I can get a few extra hours of sleep and so DH gets some extra bonding time and baby learns to drink from a bottle. I will be a SAHM so I hope I don't have to pump too much but do want to be able to be away from the baby for a few hours at a time. I can't see myself BFing too much past 1 though.

ETA: My very first goal, though, is to make it to 6 weeks, since I know it's usually really hard in the beginning but I hear a lot of people say 6 weeks is when it really starts to click. So small steps towards my larger goal.

My goal was/is to EBF for six months. Xander's now 4 months and I'm thinking of extending my goal to 1 year. But I think as long as I can make it six months, I'll be happy.

Geez, my goal was to BF for a year. But like @grizz: my goal is to make it until tomorrow.
I don't mind it and E's latch has significantly improved; but I'm not confident in my supply because it has taken 4 weeks for him to get to his birthweight. So, I've had to get over supplementing him with formula (usually by fortifying pumped milk, but not always).

Add that to a kid who wants to stay latched from (so far) 6:30 am to 3 pm with a total of an hour and a half break....well, I'm going to make it until tomorrow.

We worked really, really hard to breastfeed at all, so now that things seem to be going well, I'd like to stick with it until 18 months. I SAH, though, so I think I have a fairly good shot at that.

my goal was one year. i hope to wean by the time olive is 2 in october, but i don't think she's on board with the plan!

@regberadaisy: GRRRRRRR I'm mad at her for you!

My goal was 6 months. LO wouldn't BF, so I EP'd and supplemented. With LO in the hospital, I never once entertained not giving her formula. Once my supply tanked to 7oz/day (stress'll do that to you!), I quit that nonsense. Made it 3 months, no biggie.

(since everyone else here is exceeding their goals, one of us has to say they didn't make it to theirs, lol)

My short term goal is 6 weeks. I think we turned a corner today on her feedings (she's 5 days old), and so now I just have to figure out pumping for work. I'd love to BF/pump til she's 1, but at this point I'm just taking it a day at a time!

At this stage (37 weeks) I'm planning to give it a darn good go and see what happens....

My goal, in an ideal world, is to get to 3 months. I actively want to supplement or pump from the start if possible so my DH can feed (it's very important to him) but I will play this by ear, if it affects BF too much I may have to re-evaluate. At this point, I intend to move to FF/EPing between 3 and 6 months because I don't want to create any comfort habits I will then have to break but, again, I will play it by ear and may want to keep going once I've got it established!

I'm just trying to keep an open mind at this point.

My goal is one year. And hopefully not much longer after that. Mama wants her boobs back haha. Although if its only at night or first thing in the morning I think I'd be ok with that too.

DD is almost 7 months and my short-term goal is to continue EBF through the end of September (9 months), when we go on an overseas trip together. My longer-term goal is 1 year, and I'm open to having her nurse as long as she wants after that. I just hope my supply keeps up.