My 2.5 daughter demands nursing a lot

I’m currently having the same thing happening, only nurses for sleep now whether that’s for the night or naps. Before she would ALWAYS want to nurse. I started putting lime juice on them and let her have the taste and she would back away. Eventually we dropped nursing all day except for naps and sleep..I’m also struggling on how to break the nursing for both occasions but she is also big on routine hope that’s a bit of help for you :/ putting on some type of juice she won’t enjoy to give you a break

It’s a big brain development stage, my girl did the same thing. It’s the best form of regulating emotions, they need help, you’re not doing anything wrong at all by nursing still, it’s actually super useful! Like the park, I used to say 2 more mins etc, and I’ll say mummy needs a boobie break, and it worked really well. Will take a bit to get used too but it helped! It’s a really hard time when you can’t do it either, I had moments I needed to fully feed my newborn and she wanted to nurse at the same time, which I did a lot but sometimes I’d need not to tandem for my own sanity, so I’d try distract her with games or something ! Does she have a baby doll to play pretend nurse? That helped my toddler a lot too :) xxx

Maybe find something else for her to do to help regulate. Like read a book in her room. She has connected breastfeeding with emotions and being angry and all that. She needs to find other outs for her emotions that’s not breastfeeding. Especially if you’re mad and she’s mad and she just needs to feed sometimes you probably aren’t gonna want that and just need a separation break. I would try to help distract and bring a book or something else to her during those times

You might just need to let her scream and cry. Say last time or something like that and then only do it during times if you want to. But give milk in a cup or something like that. She might get mad and scream but you need to stand your ground and say no and not give in

My daughter self weaned at 3, and she was like this, it will get easier and if you want to stop there are gentle ways of doing so but if you want to continue then do, I found it a great tool even when I felt overwhelmed I was less overwhelmed then toddler tantrum lol 😂 x

@Kimberley thanks. I know when she will stop I'll miss it so much but she nurses for hours right now. I sleep very poorly and my body aches a lot because she's now 40 lbs. I just want to slow down but when I tell her I need a break it's quite scary to see her so mad. I'll try more the timer and tell her that I need a bobbie break. I also need to be ok with her crying I stay with her telling that I love her and hugging her but it's heart breaking

For sure you need to set boundaries too ❤️ absolutely, it’s important ! That teaches her she can set boundaries too I found boobie break useful and if she did cry or be a bit mad especially at the beginning I would try and get up from sitting and do an activity It’s hard also when they can get shallow and teethy, my girl did and it was sensory hell lol 😂 Xx

My son throws fits for different reasons but I just talk him through it and use other distractions. Just keep at it and if it's something you really want to stop then you have to have a stronger willpower than her

Is there something else you could offer? Like juice with a straw? Something she enjoys that isn't you.