How to wean? Slow-paced. Tips please!

Question

Hi ladies! I’m a FTM whose been EBF with my little boy now 10m. He is on solids (we do BLW) so he eats everything and tons of it. He’s nursing regularly 4x a day and sometimes he does a middle of the night 5min nurse (I think it’s for comfort, not hunger but I may be wrong). I haven’t had my cycles return and we are discussing starting to try this upcoming fall/winter so I want to begin a slow, paced, weaning schedule so I can have my cycles return and begin tracking (I want to have a few months of tracking prior to trying because I dealt with chemicals and cycle issues before conceiving my son). Any tips would be greatly appreciated!! & note, I dropped all pumping sessions ~2m ago!

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Once my son hit 12 months, I started to wean. He was nursing 5x/daily. I dropped one feed every 7 days until I was down to only the morning feed. I then over a week slowly reduced the length he nursed then stopped.

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Once I was ready to wean(she was 15 months) I wanted to make it an easy and gradual transition so she would respond well. I just cut out one feeding every 7-10 days and she had no Issues adjusting at all. She was still nursing 4 times a day so it was over a month before i stopped every feeding completely. I did the bedtime one last, she fussed a little bit but only for the one night then was fine after that. Honestly I made it so gradual by waiting a week or more before dropping another feed that she hardly even noticed the change. I would just distract her during those times until she was over it.

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You need to wait until babe is 12m or older. Breastmilk is the main source of nutrition for the entire first year. Until that 12m solids are only a supplement.

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My daughter started naturally weaning around 10-11 months. At 11 months I did a set schedule for feedings. 1 in the morning, 1 at lunch, and 1 before bed. Then as our days got busy, we cut out the middle feed. One day I didn’t make it home in time for her night feeding and we cut that out. By 12 months she was officially weaned and on whole milk. Her doctor had no issues with how we did it!

How to wean? Slow-paced. Tips please!

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