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I've made it three months, and I will agree it gets easier as they get older. I go to a BFing support group that has lots of moms with babies over 1 year. It's possible that your LO will wean himself before 1 year, but it's also possible that he will want to keep nursing well after 1 year. FWIW, we only have 4 bottles. We've never given more than 2 bottles in a day, when we left DS with my parents for a few hours.

At three months we were doing fantastic and I just knew I would breastfeed for a year. At three and a half months my appendix ruptured and my supply tanked to nothing. It was so sudden that I had a very difficult time with not BFing anymore.

I made it through a bad latch, bad advice from a bad pediatrician, some help from an LC and finally, figuring it out on my own by 2.5 months. At 3 months, I went back to work and had to figure out pumping and bf'ing and sending bottles to daycare. We're at 6 months now. We have a routine. It's going to be fouled up by adding in solids but I know I can manage it - we've been through so much already. I WANT to get to 12 months so I WILL.

I made small goals (3 months was my initial goal... when I hit 3 months, my new goal was 6 months... when I hit 6 months, I said as close to a year as possible would be great... I accidentally dried up at 7.5 months by taking sudafed and decided that was it) and that really helped to motivate me to continue. Otherwise I'm sure I would have quit. It would have been nice to make it to a year, especially since I was a SAHM, but I never enjoyed nursing and neither did Wagon Jr. I'm much happier as an exclusive pumper this time around. I actually feel more bonded to LMW, maybe because I'm not resenting her as much as I did WJ when he would go through growth spurts and need me every 2 hours? Or it could just be a second baby thing, or a girl thing. Not sure. Anyway, you gotta do what's right for you!

I never thought that I would still be BFing at a year. My son's birthday is in about 10 days and we still nurse first thing in the morning and just before bed. He gets formula for all other bottles since my stash is long gone.
I figured I would keep going when I realized that I could get rid of all the other feedings and pumping and still keep the 2 nursing sessions we have. We made that switch around 9 months. If I had to pump we would have stopped probably 2-3 months ago. These 2 sessions aren't that hard to maintain so I am sticking with them. We will probably stop them shortly after his first birthday though. He is starting to lose interest.

I always wanted to BF for at least a year, we made it to 14m before she sort of decided to wean (we were down to just nighttime at that point). Since your LO is close to a year why not use a sippy cup rather than introducing the bottle; especially since our ped suggested DD be weaned from the bottle around 1 year.