How many have or are "Extended/Sustained breastfeeding past 12 months" on BB?

[Traveller]

I BF my twins to 21 months, but my Sil gets my extreme admiration as she is BFing her 2.5 year old, her 13 month old, and is pregnant again and not planning on stopping feeding either of the older children. Good on her I say (although as she co sleeps and feeds in the night I have no idea how she manages to get pregnant so easily, lol)

[nicjay]

I breastfed my DD1 until she self weaned at 2.5 years old In the beginning I never intended to feed that long, only until 12 months old. While pg I was always oh I'll breast feed if I can but if I can't then I'll bottle feed. We had lots of problems establishing supply in the end when she was tiny but by that stage I was determined that I wouldn't give up LOL how things change once you have the baby! Anyway, when she was 12 months old she got really sick with the flu and and bout of croup that landed her in hospital While she was sick all she would eat was breast milk and that was a bit of a wake up call for me. So we continued despite all the comments until she finally weaned herself. It was really gradual, she just asked for "boo" less and less often until one day I realised that she hadn't asked for quite a few days.

We have had no problems second time around except for attaching in the first few days - I have to say it has been wonderful to have everything go smoothly this time after all the problems with DD1. And of course, I am intending to feed DD2 until she self weans

[Oorki Galoorki]

27 months here although i could say 29months as dd has had the odd feed since being weaned

[Fleur]

I fed DS2 to 14mths. We co-slept too, it just all worked for us.
DD2 has been a different kettle of fish altogether!!

[{sarah}]

I had no defined amount of time to breastfeed, because I couldn't feed Zander I just wanted to be able to. Once we got to six months there was just no question about continuing, it's just what I did. At 12 months I tried to introduce cow's milk as well but she wasn't interested. By about 14 months I was ready to get my body back & stop feeding. It took about a month to gently wean off the one bedtime feed she was having. J had her last feed the night before my sister's wedding, the night of the wedding she was with her grandmother & I just decided there was no point sending a bottle so we stopped there.

J slept in her cot in her room from day one, well other than the times we tried the hammock (which she hated). I never fed in bed, I felt far more comfortable keeping her more settled quietly moving from cot to rocking chair & back rather than going between rooms etc. I don't disagree with cosleeping, but it's just something we don't do.

[Willow]

I fed DD until 16 months. I was prg with #2 and that sadly ended in m/c at 12 weeks. I was devastated and felt like my b'feeding may have had something to do with our loss (I know now that's not true but I was just feeling sooooo bad at the time that I wasn't thinking rationally) I ended up back in hospital the week after my D&C with some mysterious 'infection' that no one ever really diagnosed and while I was in hospital I stopped feeding DD. It was just too much for me being so ill. I still feel immensely sad (and sometimes guilty) about the way our b'feeding ended Back then I thought 16 months was a fantastic effort (and yes, it is) no one I knew had ever fed that long. But then I discovered BB and the 2 year 'benchmark'.

I am still feeding DS1, he was 2 last month. He fed all through my pregnancy even though I'm sure for a long while I didn't actually have any milk. It was amazing to me. He was happy so we just kept going. We are now tandem feeding with his brother I had it in my head that I wanted to get to 2, now that we're here, I have no intention of stopping just yet. He hasn't had night feeds since 10 months and now only has one feed a day before his nap. He is fine though if I am not around to feed him. I think 3 would be my absolute cut off point, he will be going to preschool then and for me, that's long enough.

DS2 is 4 months and going well after a bit of a rocky start My plan is to get to at least 2 and by then I may be ready to wean. I will have been feeding for the better part of 7 years (I think) by then

[Kazmar]

I fed Annabelle till she was 15months. She weaned herself. Wanted it less and less until not at all within about a month
Ill feed Lucy the same amount of time, if not a bit longer I never knew how natural it would feel and I wish every woman had my same experience with bfing.

Where we live has the lowest stats for bfing,I think I read in Victoria! So thats really very sad

[YoYo]

DS was 15.5 months when I 'encouraged' his weaning.

I wasn't really that clued on about the breastfeeding 'benchmarks' so to speak and thought I'd just copy what my Mum did and wean him at 6 months. Well that didn't work so decided to keep on trucking. I was happy and so was he.

Sleeping was pretty bad so I started co-sleeping with him....although did it in another room away from DH. After a good while of doing that, I decided that I needed to be back in my own bed and closer to DH, so thought I would wean his day feeds first....that was easy, then had to cut down his two night feeds....where I was just on tap for him. I did one feed at a time and I had then decided that once the night feeding was over it was time for a big boy bed for him.

I vividly remember our last feed...not realising at the time that it was the last I am totally happy with the outcome. He stopped feeding, then I took the cot rails off his toddler bed and he started sleeping in his own room. He got some space, and so did I!

I loved out BFing journey and I'm looking forward to it with the next one, however long it continues. I never had any pressure from anyone to stop feeding (not to my face anyway!)