Weaning from EBF

We had/have similar issues, except I’m already back at work and have been since she was 9 months! My LG is EBF too. My work have been really good and allow me to feed her at work if required which I mean is every work day. They might be able to put provisions in place to allow this? She is going longer between feeds now and usually can manage 5-6 hours. My LG is also fed to sleep by me and only seems to settle with me via this method but with her nanny and my partner can be soothed to sleep by other means. Not sure if she smells me etc? So might be worth starting to see if other methods could work to get them to sleep with other people. In the last week or so she has started showing signs of drinking from a straw cup (we have the tumtum one from Amazon and would recommend). In regard to food are you doing BLW or purées or combo? We do a combo and that seems to work for us. I also offer 3 meals a day. Try not to stress it will work itself out! You got this mumma💪🏼

Night feeds and first one in the morning will be harder to drop than day time feeds, where LO can probably manage with solids and water (hoping this improves for you!). Maybe easier to aim for just reducing day feeds as a first step? In terms of introducing bottle - we are aiming to get LO used to expressed milk so maybe not ideal for you if your trying to move away from breast milk but things that are gradually working for us: starting with a combo of milk and water, gradually dilute less and less until it’s just milk; keep experimenting with different cups / bottles - straw cup eventually working best for us; and the usual advice that someone other than mum should offer, ideally not with mum there Good luck!

Maybe also no harm in offering a third meal, as they may be more hungry / willing to try at different times of day? So just increasing opportunities

I’m in the same boat with all of the points you’ve put. I’m basically planning to taper the daytime feeds as he eats more solids and try to cut down to like one or two feeds a day and then with the night feeds I plan to wait until like 13-15 months and then go cold turkey. It’s what my mum and sister did and I know a few others who have done it too.

I’m going back to work in December and EBF. I’m not planning on weaning - I’m going to carry on feeding in the morning, evening, and overnight. And probably will feed to sleep when I’m with him. However I spoke to my health visitor about this and she said yoghurt can replace a “feed” during the day if he doesn’t eat much solids - as my little one isn’t like those babies you see eating curry etc!! I’m going to try lansinoh bottles as I’ve heard they’re accepted well by EBF babies, and will try a sippy cup with a silicone spout like the mam trainer cups and see if he’ll accept milk from those - as he can use the tommee tippee sippy cups independently-ish. I would also offer the third meal - it doesn’t matter if they’re not eating much at each meal, it’s just the chance to try food, get used to eating at different times etc. For his evening meal I’ll often just give fruit and yoghurt if he doesn’t fancy much.