Morning and evening nursing only by choice

I remember reading a few moms saying that they moved to morning and evening nursing without pumping during the day. How did you do it and when did you do it? I am not thinking about doing it now but was thinking that I want to move to that schedule and supplement with formula. How do you do that without affecting milk supply?

Re: Morning and evening nursing only by choice

When DS was about 13 months old I was nursing 4xs per day. Morning, before AM nap, before PM nap, and before bed.

I decided to drop before nap times and substituted the nursing routine with reading a book.

My milk supply just adjusted.

I nursed morning and night for about a month. Then I dropped night and 2 or 3 weeks later dropped morning. By 15 months he was completely weaned.

Re: Morning and evening nursing only by choice

Re: Morning and evening nursing only by choice

I started doing this when DS was 9 months old. I was having a very hard time keeping my pumping schedule at work and was down to pumping one time at work. At that point, I stopped pumping and would nurse morning and evening only.

My supply adjusted. I thought I would dry out completely, and to be honest, I have a very small supply to begin with, but I was still able to nurse twice a day.

Now I nurse once a day. Same, my body adjusted. Although I usually still have to give a bottle after I nurse, just a smaller bottle. He's been nursing for just a couple of minutes so I think it won't be too much longer before he weans by himself.