PLease could anyone give me advice, my son who is 19 monhts is breastfed at night, to get to sleep, and in the night if he wakes, and in the morning! He is currently teething so I will wait till he is feeling well. However I need to stop breastfeeding for 2 reasons, firstly I have to have mammogram to check I do not have breast cancer as my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer last yr aged 39yrs, I was orignally told to give up breast feeding and do this last oct, however after doing my own research and listening to advice from my dr and my sisters consultant I put off the mammogram til now.I also feel that I really need to loose weight so I feel that not having the excuse of breastfeeding will help! Please let me know how you weaned your baby! He has bottles in the day!He mainly wakes up when he is unwell, like a cold or teething! Not really through hunger, but of course the easiest thing is to breast feed him lying down! Then he just goes back to sleep! I have also doen it this long as our previuos house( up to 8 weeks ago) had 3 flights of stairs! so going downstairs for a bottle would have been awful! (70 steps there and back)However I'm not too fused if he needs a drink in the night he is my 4th, I know it doesn't go on forever, he is the onl child I have been able to breastfeed due to 2 of my others being 7 weeks early(one also had a cleft palate) my 2nd child wasn't breasfed due to gulit over not being able to breastfeed my first child ! So perhaps as this is my last child I'm holding on to him being a baby too long!

19 months.. thats too big of a kid to be sucking on your breast...Give it to him in a cup...

something is wrong with you you should have stoped that before the kid was a year old now hes almost 2? that boarders insest even bottles should be taken away by the age of 1 become a parent not a pervert

i suggest you jsut stopp out rihgt and offfer hima bottle for confort it will take a few days but int eh end it will work, i breast feed my son till he was 18 month old and fully understand what you are going through and that how we did it also get some one else to give him his bottle so he cant smell you milk

If you have really made up your mind to wean him, then the answer is quite simple. Stop giving him your breast, and give him a cup or bottle instead.Weaning is harder on you than it is on him. He might fuss for a few days, but he'll learn pretty quick that the whole breast thing is over and done with. There is no reason that a 19 month old should be waking for feedings in the night, so don't even offer anything to him if he wakes up, let him soothe himself back to sleep. Again, this is harder on you than it will be on him.Persevere, because you are the parent and are in control, and you are NOT harming your child by weaning him, he will not be psychologically scarred if you don't feed him in the middle of the night.

Breast feeding at 19 months? You should have stopped the kid at 9 months. Most parents stop doing this before their child reaches a year old. If he's getting teeth, I think its time for solid food anyway. Do you really want him biting on your nipples until he's in kindergarten? You have to stop this some time.

My daughter was breastfed until she was 16 0r 17 months old, when she just gradually wanted to feed less and less and finally stopped. She never had a dummy or a bottle, but liked a feeder cup.

well congratulation on breastfeeding that long ... but now it's time to stop ! and i mean just stop !!!! he uses your breast as a pacifier to put him back to sleep ...and after all for you it is more convenient to do so ... if he is thirsty at night give him a cup of water over and over ... and just stop breastfeeding ...he will cry and do anything to get back on it ....so be prepared to offer him the cup of water over and over ...even if he feels bad or is sick ..hold him comfort him but not with the breast ...

There's no need to stop breastfeeding for a mammogram or to lose weight. You should check around to find a radiologist who is skilled at reading the mammogram of a lactating breast. FWIW, breastfeeding for at least two years (cumulative for all your children) will significantly decrease your risk of breast cancer. Considering you have a first degree relative with breast cancer, I think it would definitely be wise to continue to breastfeed. As far as losing weight while breastfeeding... I lost 45 pounds while breastfeeding and it had no impact on my milk supply. I did Weight Watchers and did the nursing moms program.The American Academy of Family Physicians says that stopping breastfeeding before 2 years can compromise the immunity of a child. Please reconsider weaning! Folks who are saying that your child is too old are not informed on the many benefits of breastfeeding beyond a year. It is in both your best interests to continue to nurse until at least 24 months. Good luck!

I can't believe that people are being horrible to you about this!Just wean slowly. I stopped my daughter gradually, when it got down to one five minute feed a night, I knew that she needed to stop. So the routine got changed round. I used to read a story then feed her, and she'd fall asleep at the breast. I altered it so that slowly, the story came after the feed, when she was snuggled next to me and still had the physical contact. I started lying her further away from me each night and before we knew it, she was off the breast- I think it took about two weeks from deciding to quit to stopping completely. It worked out that she was 18 months old when she stopped. I didn't make a big deal of, mainly because I wasn't sure if she ws actually going to go throughwith it, but I think that not getting worked up about it helped.Make sure that the two of you are comfortable- you are right to wait until the teeth have come through, because I think that additional comfort is needed when the little one isn't feeling top notch.Good luck!