Moms who BF- anyone's child self wean?

DS #2 will be 1 on July 2nd. We just started to introduce whole milk to him. Since having a taste of it, he has zero interest in nursing! He is drinking it from a sippy like a champ. What did you do to relieve engorgement? I haven't been engorged in months and now I am. Please share your experiences with me. I thought I would be sad, as DS #1 went until he was 15 months old. However, I am ready for it to be over. I just am not sure how to go about ending it for good.

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When I was weaning DS (he didn't self wean and I did it very slowly over a long time) II would drop a feeding at a time. I would drop one feeding for a week or two, then another, etc . When he was down to one nursing, I started doing it every other day. It was a little uncomfortable, but not too bad.

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Thanks for your reply.

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DS self weaned at 11 months. By then, he was having less and less interest and my supply was very low, so I didn't have any engorgement issues. I'm no help unfortunately

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My DD did self wean at 3!!! but I was alredy pregnant with DS so couldn't tell you how it felt really as I was already feeling all the pregnancy symptoms.

I had to wean DS two weeks ago as I had surgery - again I dont really know what effects I felt fully as I was feeling pretty awful after the surgery so it all rolled into one. I will say though that 2 weeks later DS will still look to nurse and I have to distract him. I think some kids are WAY harder than others to wean so it sounds like your little guy might be an easy one to wean - good luck

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DS started to self wean around 10 months. But he did it gradually. At that time I finally stopped pumping and used up my freezer stash. I didn't have engorgement because he did it gradually. Right before his first birthday he actually got into position to BF and seemed to forget how to do it. I stopped BF when he was 1 year and 2 days.

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I just finished weaning, and while I did it gradually for whatever reason I still had engorgement issues. I just pumped as little as possible so that I wasn't super uncomfortable and took advil for the pain. After a week I was totally fine. HTH!

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Thanks for this, everyone. I truly appreciate it.

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Nina did at 8 months. I tried everything to continue but she weaned herself and I lost my supply.

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DS self-weaned at 11.5 months. I wasn't ready either but I consider it a mixed blessing

For us, I had already started producing less and was struggling to keep up. I had already stopped pumping at work because he was wasting his bottles and barely drinking them at daycare My supply was already on the way out.

I was only really full once and it was a couple of days after he stopped. I decided to try putting him on the boob since I didn't mind if he wanted to continue. He nursed that once, the engorgement went away and he hasn't tried to nurse again since (he will be 12 months next week).

HTH

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Posted by LoveyQ

DS self weaned at 11 months. By then, he was having less and less interest and my supply was very low, so I didn't have any engorgement issues. I'm no help unfortunately