Day Weaning before Night Weaning

[Jellyfish]

ETA: This probably doesn't belong in this section, wasn't really watching. Sorry.

Has anybody done it this way around?

I see a lot of discussion on how to night wean prior to dropping all day feeds but I am interested in possibly reducing it the other way and wondering how achievable this is. At the moment my 14 and a half month old is feeding quite frequently, both day and night, which isn't really a problem for me but I think it could be effecting her solid intake so wouldn't mind trying to change this a little.

She feeds to sleep and am not too keen to mess with this (so she would feed before bed, when she wakes during the night and before her day nap which is usually around 11am which I think would be plenty in terms of nutrition for this age). The main "issue" is she snacks constantly through the day, she really doesn't even have any proper day feeds (apart from before her nap) but will be pulling my top up (or down) for 3 or 4 sucks at least every hour, maybe has a 2 minute feed at some points, loves (love, LOVES) to swap from side to side over and over and over again and generally is just playing around rather than feeding. She currently has unrestricted access to the breast but it is getting a tiny bit ridiculous, I think she is just exploring her ability to ask and choose etc. I do want to try and cut down all of this snacking a little bit, maybe even keep a few day FEEDS but if she is only having a few sucks I think we could do away with it completely without too much fuss and just keep the sleepy time feeds (she co-sleeps so does still feed a looooooot).

Anyway, the point of all of this is to ask if anyone has been here and ask how it went with trying to either consolidate the day feeding into a few proper feeds or do away with them completely. Any tips on how you did this or how long it took? I don't really think it will be difficult and will just require some distraction (we are usually sitting around the floor playing with some sort of thing so can just redirect attention to this or another activity) or am I being really naive? I'm pretty confident she will still get enough breastmilk but it wouldn't hurt if somebody could reassure me about that too (pretty certain she is at the extreme upper end of intake currently and will still maintain a higher than required amount but yeah, hard not to stress).

Thanks.

[~Kim~]

I wish I had some advise as to how but this is the way DD self weaned. By about your DD's age she had no feeds in the day and only the bed one and the early morning one.

My DS on the other hand is exactly like your little miss and has gone back to asking all the time. I'm all for not refusing if he asks, but man i need some space back. I try to distract DS with an activity or outing, but we only have one car so that's not always an option and often he bypasses the distraction completely after 2milliseconds and cames back with his original request.
So, Subscribing.

[Kmn]

I went back to work when my ds was 10 months old. And so he pretty much "day weaned" then (at least on weekdays).
However, he also stopped sleeping through, and at once stage was up to 5 feeds a night - so beware!

[Ryatha]

I've day weaned cause I am working full time and it works. I haven't had the issue of snacking but I have seen one mum give her toddler a number of 'milk cards' that the toddler could trade in for a bf during the day. So if the mum only wanted to give 5 feeds then the toddler got 5 cards. He would go up to mum with a card and say 'milk please' trade in a card and have a feed. Then he would only have 4 left for the rest of the day.

To me it seemed like a great idea but I haven't had to use it.

HTH!

[Jellyfish]

I went back to work when my ds was 10 months old. And so he pretty much "day weaned" then (at least on weekdays).
However, he also stopped sleeping through, and at once stage was up to 5 feeds a night - so beware!

I'm not toooooo worried about night waking since we are already up at least 3 times as is but thanks for the warning, hopefully it doesn't get worse ekk!!

[kelebek]

Our day feeds are only in the morning before getting out of bed, after his afternoon nap and just before bed unless he is sick then he asks for it more. This mainly evolved because at 11 mnths I went to a sleep school and we changed feeding from demand to after breakfast, lunch and tea and I went back to work about the same time for 3 days a week for 4 months.
What I would suggest is distraction, I notice if we are out and about for the day he tends not to ask for his after nap feed, can you delay the feed? so if she asks you tell her later and distract her with a walk or something? I am very much an instinct person and with DS try and distract and if he really wanted it I could tell hope that makes sense and goodluck.