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How can I encourage my toddler to stop breastfeeding

by Tara
(UK)

I am a working mother of two and had no problems moving my first child on to bottle feeding after my first period of maternity leave.

My second child however never took to bottle feeding and so most of his feeds were forced to take place through the night. He is now 22 months old and whilst I am very ready for the breastfeeding to stop (and have been for over a year now) my son gets very aggitated when I try to avoid it in favour of him drinking other fluids during the day.

I have changed my diet allowing spicy/strong flavoured foods that put him off when he was very small but this has had no effect either. He appears to dislike cow's milk and I was wondering if this was part of the problem. Other than this he has a good diet.

Any ideas?

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Sep 15, 2010
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Breastfeeding weaning tips
by: Tracy

Hi Tara

I laughed when I read your comment, your toddler sounds cute. Congrats on breastfeeding for so long! That's really great.

I have a few tips...

- Get a drink that your child does like drinking, and encourage him to drink more during the day.

- Get your hubby or somebody else to put your toddler to bed. Is he sleeping in his own bed? If not, this would be a good time to start sleeping in separate rooms.

- Your toddler might be making up for lost time spent together, try to do things together and still send special time together so that he doesn't feel as though he needs to breastfeed to get your attention.

- Maybe you can start off by giving him some expressed breast milk at night...it would also help if dad or somebody else gives it to him instead of you.

- Try to distract your toddler with something else to do (especially on the weekends if and when you are at home) Take him out for a walk or do something that he loves doing...but like I said still spend that special time together.

- Be firm loving and just say: "no" And stick with it, don't give in. A Toddler will manipulate you if you give in.

I hope these few tips helped...

Here are some other pages that might help...

http://www.breastfeeding-problems.com/breastfeeding-weaning.html

http://www.breastfeeding-problems.com/night-weaning.html

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Sep 20, 2010
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Thanks, Tracy
by: Tara

Thanks for the great suggestions! Until you had pointed it out I hadn't considered the extended feeding could be simply for attention. Now I think about it both my husband and I so focussed on the behaviour of our eldest child and how keeping him engaged/entertained/active makes life easier for everyone else - or so we thought! Time to change everyone's behaviours, not just the toddler!

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