BF and then what??

Oooh- I will be watching this with interest - have been wondering the same thing...

Well with us - henry self weaned at just over 1year. I would have kept feeding him (just morning and night) but he had other plans. At that point he was already having water at lunch and during the day so i just had to make sure i increased how often i offered the water. He occasionally has milk - im actually looking into this atm because it seems to make him a bit sick when i give it to him and since i have an intolerance to it im wondering if he does too.
He eats 3 solid meals a day plus snacks so i didnt feel that he needed toddler formula as he gets all his vitamins from his food.

Hope that helps

I thought i would wean R onto cows milk sometime after he is 1 (unless he selfweans before hand)
and sorry I'm gona thread jack but do they drop to 2 feeds on their own and what age (about) do they do that?
oh and flutterby I had to LOL at mummymoo! haha thats so cute!!!

With C I went straight on to cows milk at one, although I was still BF her, she had it on everything and would drink it too, with J, it made his tummy sore so he had soy till about 2.5.

Whatever you do, can't waste your $$ on follow on or toddler formulas, they are a complete and utter waste of money and prey on mums insecurities about their childs diet.

Yeah I think also they pack extra stuff into toddler formulas so if you do have a fussy eater they will be even less inclined to eat cos they are filling up on the formula.

My understanding is that after 12 months they need around 500ml of dairy from any source so that includes any milk on cereal, cheese, yoghurt etc as well as any milk they drink and ultimately they don't actually need milk if they are getting enough calcium and protein from other sources, i.e breastmilk or their diet in general.

Spencer was bottle fed by then so a bit different but he mostly just dropped the feeds himself, first started sleeping through his mid morning bottle, then I dropped his arvo one when he started monkeying about at dinner time, then he stopped wanting the lunch one, at 18 months he then also stopped wanting his bed time one and just recently I stopped the morning one cos he wasn't wanting breakfast till 10am after drinking his milk.

I've noticed that Kyle is dropping his now as well but he seems to be doing it by stretching his feeds out, he use to be 2-3 hourly and is now 3-4 hourly during the day and is doing longer stretches most nights.

so is 10 months too young to be only on 2 BF's a day? the last few days R has only wanted the morning and before bed feed I offer him his lunch one about 3 times and he just refuses it I figure he knows what he wants and is obviously happy with just 2 feeds but I would of thought 10 months is too young.....

he is a big solid eter and has breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner.....

wow thats cool didnt know that!

DS is just weaning now, at 26 months. He has never liked straight cow milk but it's never bothered me because he's been so into boobs, and he likes cheese and yoghurt. I use cow milk as much as I can in cooking for him and on his porridge, now that he's weaning especially.