I always said, not past 12 months. "Once they are old enough to walk and ask for it they're too old! That's just WEIRD" I used to say! I always wanted to feed to 12 months though. Just not any further! My plan was to feed to 12 months then wean.
Well now I'm a weirdo breastfeeding an almost 22 months old. And I was disappointed thinking she was weaning a fe weeks ago.
Tonight she was falling asleep on the boob, but not in her jammies, so I took her off to dress her, and she cuddled into me and said "I want booby". NAW so gorgeous!
I will wean as long as she wants to. I want her to self-wean.
Being 18 at the time, i remember going to antenatal classes with my mum and when they had the big talk about breastfeeding i was in tears and hormonal at the thought of myself breastfeeding.. i new i was going to do it as i new it was the best thing for my baby.. i found it verry difficult to begin with, but i almost made it to 12months the only thing that stopped me was my back(spinal) injury and having to wean because of an upcoming surgery (which im still waiting on)
I was wanting to breast feed until she weened herself but i'm proud of myself for making it to 11 months when at first i never thought i could of done it ! I loved Breastfeeding and the bond and closeness i felt with dd was priceless and ive never looked back
Prior to getting pregnant I never thought about it. I spose if pressed I would have said it was weird to breastfeed an older baby or toddler - I had some vague notion that you stopped at 6 months or something.
Once I started to learn a bit more about it, it occured to me that it would be a bit strange to switch to something you have to pay for at 6 months without a good reason - I didn't know babies need milk as their main source of nutrition for 12 months or so.
So I thought, sure, I'll breastfeed. I'll see how I go.
Then I held DS for the first time and put him to the breast.... couldn't imagine anything more 'right'. Once I had breastfed, and particularly the longer we went on and further we got from our initial difficulties, the easier I could see us continuing into toddlerhood. It still seems a natural thing to do.
pre-kids: most of the mumma's in my family breastfed but bottlefed fairly quickly, my sister bf her 2nd baby to 12 mnths and then weaned him, I grew up with mum telling me that I weaned when she was pregnant with my sister (about 6 mnths) and weaned my sister at 9 mnths (and that teeth hurt apparently). I wanted to feed until 12 mnths mainly from a financial point of view, I didn't want to pay for something that I could have for free.
Since DS, well let's just say that I can't see the difference from feeding him when he was 12 mnths to feeding him now, he still wants it and I am still producing it so why not. The more I thought about it and the more people questioned why I don't give him cow's milk etc... I can't see why I want to give him another animal's milk over my milk when I don't have any issues preventing supply. I am (mostly) happy to follow his lead but would like to think he will wean around 3 that will probably change when he is 3 and feeding as often as ever
Before I had DD I was a little unsure....mainly coz i was thinking about doing it in front of people and being uncomfortable. But I really wanted to give it a go
After..I loved it, the closeness was just amazing. And the fact that you were needed...sorry if thats a silly way of putting it! My goal was to get to 6 months...if not longer
Unfortunatly i have pretty much stopped BF as i started having some supply issues. I was just topping up with formula (I felt like I was poisoning her!! lol), now she has formula all day and just 1or 2 BF at night to resettle her. I hated stopping, i cried so much :'( i loved it so much and wished i was better at it!! I love our co-sleeping night time feeds atm but i know they going to have to stop soon as i dont have much of a supply at all now
I went from not being sure of Breastfeeding to being totally obsessed with it!!! I think its so beautiful Hopefully when I have another bub I can BF for longer
Before DD, I always knew I wanted to give BF ago. My mum was not able to BF me nor my brother and my brothers ex was not able to BF my niece or nephew. I saw the difficulties that my brothers ex had and so went into my BF journey with an open mind. However I knew I wanted to feed for atleast 12months.
Now that DD is here, I still want to BF till atleast 12months, however, I have alot of difficulties to get over. I have been exclusively BF now for 10wks4days. I have had a painful start and continue to have a very sore nipple, I am constantly concerned about supply and if my DD is getting enough.
I have an amazing support network and could not keep going if it was not for my DF, family and friends. I knew BF is not easy for everyone, but I never imagined it would be this hard. I will keep feeding as long as DD wants it.
Pre kids I thought that I would breastfeed but once teeth came along I would go to formula, formula was what I knew about as I was 15 when my brother was born. When DD1 was born 6 weeks early and was in the SCU for 4 weeks I automatically started on the route of breastfeeding school and did my best to express as much as I could for her until she could suck, I wanted to feed her until 12 months if possible even though I was going back to work at 5 months, I made it to 21 months only stopping when I was pregnant with DD2. Again DD2 was 6 weeks early and she is still breastfeeding at 31months. I love the closeness of the cuddles, co sleeping has made the feeding journey easier and more convenient as well. Nana once told me to never do something standing if you could do it lying in bed, and she breastfed all 10 of her babies, most to 12 months.
Before baby, I was going to BF until baby lost baby teeth! Well, I was thinking 3-4 if I'm honest. I was disgusted at people who bought me bottles as a pregnancy gift (although polite to their faces). I shouted down people who pushed formula at me. I told people off who said it was child abuse or paedophilia or even it was weird once the child could ask for it.
3 days old, my son had formula. OK so he self-weaned from the breast at 16m, but the bottles did come in handy.
My breasts have not changed one jot. Still have tiny nipples and next to no breasts. On the bright side, not as if they could get smaller!
breastfeeding an almost 22 months old. And I was disappointed thinking she was weaning a fe weeks ago.
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that will probably change when he is 3 and feeding as often as ever 
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