When I started, I thought that 12 months would feel like the right length of time and that we'd start to cut down after that. But 12 months came & went, DS was really slow to take to solids, so he was still having 6-8 feeds a day, and there was no way I could have cut him back without causing great distress to both of us. When he was a newborn, I thought 1yo's were really "old", but when I had a 1yo, I just still saw a wee man who was still very babylike. So we just kept going. He went into daycare for a couple of days a week at 15 months, which cut things back to about 4 a day (plus overnights), and then gradually we've dropped back further, now down to just a morning feed/cuddle in bed before the day starts. Being pregnant has made it quite painful at the start of each feed, and I really don't think he's getting very much these days, but it's still obviously something that he loves, so I'm happy to let it take it's natural course. I'm no longer worried about whether I should wean him, as it's a very quiet & private moment between the 2 of us, so no busybody's who are likely to be freaked out by the fact that we're still going need to be in the know I've loved our b/fing journey, and I'm so grateful that I've been able to do it so easily, it really feels like one of the luckiest things in life. I really feel for girls who want to do it, but it just doesn't work, I wish I had a magic wand to spread the BFing love.

All of which is really quite boring - I probably should have replied to this post and just said "me too - still going"