Extended breast feeding?

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Is anyone thinking about going for over a year? If so, are you a stay at home mom, or will you still leave bottles at day care or just nurse in the morning/before bed?

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I don’t think my baby girl will be ready to wean at 1, she loves to breastfeed. My original plan was to make it to 6 months, but now I’m thinking that after she turns 1 year old I will continue to nurse a session or 2 per day until she’s ready to wean. I’m planning to quit pumping at work a little after she turns 11 months (really, I’ll probably just drop it to 1 pumping session first and drop the second one the next week or so) since I won’t need the milk for while she is being watched. I currently only work part time, 2 days a week. I’m over the pumping thing. We do supplement with formula about 1 bottle per day. I can tell my supply isn’t what it used to be, so who knows maybe she will wean herself out of frustration at the boob.
My husband isn’t very supportive of breast feeding, so he is always mentioning something about weaning her. 🙄 I feel like I’m stuck between him wanting me to quit all the time and her loving to breast feed.

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I plan on breastfeeding until at least 18months. I know here in a few months when my daughter is 1 that she won’t be ready to quit. She loves nursing and I don’t want to take that from her cold turkey. I will slowly ween her hopefully starting at one and by 18months she will be just at night feedings.

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I breastfed my middle child until this past February, she was 2years and 10 months old (she weaned herself). So I'll keep nursing my son until he's ready to be done. I am a stay at home mom though.

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Im planning on 2 yrs. like I did with my first son. 
My baby is 8 months old and time is just flying by!! 
Im a SAHM, so nursing is easy for me to do. 
So many benefits to extended nursing.

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I will continue breastfeeding after my daughter is one (I'm a SAHM) but my husband and I would like to concieve again before too long so I will gradually wean her as I introduce more solid food and plan on being finished with breastfeeding by the time she is 2

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I plan on breastfeeding until she decided she wants to stop and wean herself. I stay at home so we nurse on demand.

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I want to, but I'd also really like to concieve again and I'm concerned I won't be able to while nursing. I'm a stay at home mom. I think nursing 2 or 3 years would be amazing.

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At least until 1 for me. I want to make sure he has a good handle on eating food before I start to wean.

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I'm planning on weaning at 1. Not cold turkey of course but I'll start nursing him less. He will be able to get nutrition from other sources then and he's not super attached to breastfeeding as it is so I think itll be best for us both. I cant imagine doing extended breastfeeding but more power to those that can!

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I'm totally struggling with this at the moment. My period came back twice when my daughter was sleeping through the night regularly, but at the beginning of December she started night waking (totally backwards, I know. 🤦🏻‍♀️) And my period went away since the beginning of January. I want to try to get pregnant again this summer around her first birthday, but I work from home mostly and I feel like I don't necessarily need to stop breastfeeding. She likes it, and we're kind of in a groove where I don't feel like I'm completely tethered to her all the time. But I need to ovulate to get pregnant again! I really really don't want to get pregnant too late in the year because I don't want to have a winter baby (I hate to think of a tiny newborn getting a cold 😢) so I have a tiny window! Ugh it's a little ways off still but it's stressing me out!

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