Just passed the one year mark (yay!) and hoping to let M self wean but I'm hoping that's only a couple of months away.
If you let your LO self wean, when did it happen?
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I weaned DS but DD self weaned at 15 months - she was never a comfort nurser though like DS was!
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@Mamaof2: M has never been a comfort nurser either! I used to worry she'd self wean early, but here we are at 1 year
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we are going strong at almost 18 months and no signs of self-weaning, so i am curious to see other replies too.
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@californiadreams: how often is your LO nursing at eighteen months?
@sslm: eighteen months over here and still nursing 5-6 times a day but my LO is a real comfort nurser.
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Still nurse morning and night at 17m. Def asks for it at those times but usually not during the day.
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7 months. She wanted nothing to do with nursing after that.
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@Kemma: i;ve been back at work full time since 12.5 months so it has changed, but on work days it is twice a day (morning and night). And on weekends it is 2 - 4 times a day.
the extra sessions during the day on weekends are usually shorter though. nightime is his major comfort nurse time (or he is manipulating into not putting him to bed sooner, lol). Morning it is wam-bam-thank-you-mam (drinks till full then hops down to go explore when done).
eta, the morning session can be skipped if DH gets up with LO and feeds him breakfast before i am up, but that doesn't happen often as i am usually awake.
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Really 13 months but I think he would have hung on to that last morning feeding for a bit longer. I dropped it without any real push back but I did have to refuse one time. Then he didn't ask again. I don't know if you could really count that as self-weaning but he dropped all the other feedings on his own.
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12 months. It was a dual effort though. I just stopped offering and he never really asked. The only time he wanted to nurse in the first few days of weaning was when I was trying in a bathing suit top and he saw my boob.
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14 months
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DD didn't really wean herself but had slowly dropped to two feeds and then didn't fight or ask when I didn't offer one day. She was fifteen months.
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It seems like it is happening right now for us; he is 20 months. I dunno if you would call it self-weaning or not. I dropped down to one feed around 15 months, fully intending to wean off that one feed ASAP. At the time he was biting me a ton, so I felt like it was "time." I didn't feel like he was interested, so I stopped offering. Around 18 months, I stopped offering that last feed (it was in the morning). I thought we were weaned but then he got really sick and started nursing again, sometimes at really odd hours. Once he got better he was back to once a day. Then I had a miscarriage and just didn't want to nurse for a few days, so I didn't offer and I didn't really allow, either. Once I got better (maybe four days), I offered and he just sort of basically latched on and off. Since then he sometimes wants to see them, and laughs when I pop one out, but he doesn't really try to nurse. So I think we are probably done!
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DS1 was 2 years 4 months.
DS2 is 2 years 3 months now and only nursing once in the morning.
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We are at 14 months and I think we're there. At one year we dropped to morning and night only then he started going to sleep on his own without nursing a couple weeks ago. He nursed a little the other morning but he doesn't seem to want it the same way so I think we're at the end.
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I let him self-wean and it was just before 16 months. I tried to encourage him to keep going and make it to 24 months but he was done.
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We are at 18 months and only nursing once a day. I think he'd be fine without it, but I don't want to push, especially since it's in the morning and allows me an extra 20-40 min of lying in bed with him!
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17 months. Glorious, glorious, glorious weaning.
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16.5 months. I would've gone longer but he was clearly done.
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She self weaned on her own at 13ish months. She was dropping feedings all the time which is how I knew she was ready. She was down to one feeding and I just made sure she had food and she never asked for it anymore.
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DS is 11m and I'm hoping he'll self wean in the next few months. I know I could just stop nursing him, but I get soo confused when/how to drop feeds and I'm so conflicted because on one hand I really like nursing but I would really like to have my body back!
@autumn865: how was your daughter dropping feeds? Like she was refusing when you offered, or you just didn't offer and she didn't ask?
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@mediagirl: I hear that! I was so happy she was done.
DD weaned somewhere between 14-15 months.
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DS is 13m and he is starting to show less interest in the middle of the day, but I *think* he still nurses a lot overall. I have to admit, I get frustrated sometimes when he won't nurse or isn't interested. I think I'm going to have a really hard time when he weans, but he is a major night nurser, so I think I still have a while!
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@QBbride: I would offer and she would kind of nurse half heart espy for a super short time or outright refuse. When she refused I would just go with it and just go to our daily activities
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@Dagny: yeah Madeline is still waking up once through the night and nursing is the way to easily get her back down so I'm not giving that up. I'm just praying she'll sttn soon.
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