Suggestions for weaning my 2 year old

[Cherished]

Hi hon, I'm doing this right now actually. Here's a thread I started about trying out a toddler bed instead of co-sleeping. I started actively weaning off the boobie about a month and a half ago now. I started by telling DS (also totally boobie obsessed!) that my milk was running out and that he should save it for just sleep times. During the day he has special Koko milk (a glass bottle filled with organic rice milk that has a color picture of Koko the train from Chuggington on it). He LOVED this idea! However there were plenty of tears and times where he wanted mummies milk. You just need to be strong and talk to your little one. with some reasoning they understand the concept of 'running out'. Personally it would have been very traumatic for us and DS to go cold turkey and that's not something that we considered. I did have it down to just nap time and bed time and thought that it would be smooth sailing from then on in as within a week or so he was asking for Koko milk during the day. But then teething happened and for a week I allowed him to be on the boobie all the time which I think confused him. But today he's been pretty good. He knows what the go is now. Good luck with it, it's hard :'(

[BellyBelly]

How To Wean Your Baby or Toddler - A Respectful Approach to Weaning

[NicNac]

I can really only answer one of your questions from personal experience.
I weaned my then 21 month old DD so that I could use clomid to fall pregnant (noting I just went with the fertility specialists advice to not take clomid and breastfeed, however as MadB recommended, in hindsight, I would definitely look into it further). My DD however was only on one feed a day at that stage.
While i was pregnant DD asked maybe ten times if she could have some booby, to which i replied there was no milk but she could have some when they got milk in them. In the six weeks since DS has been born, DD asks maybe every second day if she can have booby (usually while DS is on them), and I tell her she can have some after her brother. She usually forgets and if I remind her she brushes me off. A couple of times I managed to convince her to get on my lap and she has put her mouth on my breast but not in a way to get milk. When I try to attach her properly, she won't have a bar of it and she strangely almost seems embarrassed by it. I was really hoping she would start again, but I haven't pushed it........ seems she has been okay with the weaning, but i haven't!!!

[~phyrephly~]

Oh Reet, I feel for you.

I'm on day 8 of weaning. Well aiming for weaning. Weaning for DS and I started when I went back to work full time (if you don't count when he started solids). DS would feed when I got home, after his shower then feed to sleep and all night thereafter. I was exhausted, even though we co slept. My body was in pain for being in two sleeping positions only. DP was getting ancy that he wanted some alone overnight bed time with me. So we started to cut back. I cut all overnight feeds at once. That's been hard. I've been running on very little sleep as I have to settle DS without boob, which means rocking, bouncing, singing, holding, etc. He has one feed around 5am and another after his shower at night before bed around 7.30pm. He asks for it in between, I explain that boobies are sleeping (making sure that after a feed I tell him to say night night to boobies). He's generally ok with that but if he is tired he will get upset for a while. He also has needed alot more closeness and attention as that intimate feeding bond is changing.

Yes it makes me sad too I have loved feeding him but I do feel the time is right for change. My period has been back for about 5 months now, so fertility is no issue here and we arent TTC.