OOPS, I just read the title after submitting, supposed to say "set IN"...
I'm still waiting for the need for Motrin, wraps, etc etc. What's the deal? I still have milk but I'm not getting engorged and have absolutely no pain. Zac hasn't nursed in over a week or more (maybe once for a minute or two but I dont recall when that was.)

OMG--I was JUST about to post re: this! I've weaned B off of nighttime nursing and have no issues w/ engorgement or pain.

I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that our kids are older? I mean, perhaps we aren't making that much, anyway? *runs to find b'feeding book*

LOL...I was wondering if it was because I had SLOOOOWLY weaned off one feeding at a time and that I wont have that problem? :dontknow:
No clue.

I didn't really have any problems with that either, Owen nurses 2-3 times a day and I had weaned him off the middle of the night feeding and didn't really have engorgement or pain either.
My friend told me she never had any problems either when her son stopped breastfeeding, he was almost 2 years old. Maybe it really has to do with our children being a little older already.

BTW--I LOVE Owen's sig pic! What a big boy he's getting to be! :-)

I didn't have any problems either, and I stopped pumping when D was only three months old. And I didn't really taper off very slowly.

I didn't have it with Hobbes who stopped night nursing hisself at 17 months but I did with Zoee who at the time was 8 weeks old and was bottle and breast feed.

I had to quit at 6 weeks...you can read my reason in Cameron's Story..but the engorgement happened within 1-2 days and the pain went away after 4....and milk was completely gone at 3-4 weeks

I have no experience with BFing, but wanted to let you all know that I'm glad you are in no pain. I was always told that after having Lauren, my boobs would turn rock hard with the milk drying up and would hurt like h*ll. I had no pain whatsoever. Thank goodness.

You girls are lucky. I finally stopped pumping for Cady when she was 10 weeks old and it was slow going. I had to wean down my pumping very slowly, otherwise, I'd get painfully engorged.

I didn't have any pain or engorgement when I weaned Emilia either. I did it gradually, one nursing at a time, and kept one morning nurse for over a month. I did feel full in the morning when I first stopped, and I would leak when she cried or when I thought about her for weeks, but I never got swollen, or had any pain.

and with Eric I don't think he took enough in each feeding. I never got engorged with milk EVER, and only felt full once or twice a day. Then, when he was 3 weeks old I was completely deflated. Still managing to pump 4oz a day though by 5 weeks even though he was completely on bottles by then.

Our bodies are amazing!

Minnie, the way you did it w/emilia is exactly how zac did it. I say "Zac did it" because he truely was the one who decided he was done. :dontknow: The evening nursing went to crap a few weeks before the morning nursing started to. I held on as much as I could to those morning nursings, but he was NOT interested and I didn't feel like "forcing him" to take the boob,, KWIM? LOL
He enjoyed it THOROUGHLY for well into his first year so I think I'll "allow" him to stop now. ;) LOL

I'm afraid I'm not much help either, Sara. I pumped for 6wks full-time b/c Mr Impatient wouldn't latch long enough for the milk to let down! But that's another story...I pumped until I got an infection and then he went to formula. I had a good 2 weeks of pain and it took 3-4 wks for my milk to go away. But I think my story may be on the extreme side b/c of the infection.

Maybe the next kiddo will want to nurse, I hope...

Minnie, the way you did it w/emilia is exactly how zac did it. I say "Zac did it" because he truely was the one who decided he was done. :dontknow: The evening nursing went to crap a few weeks before the morning nursing started to. I held on as much as I could to those morning nursings, but he was NOT interested and I didn't feel like "forcing him" to take the boob,, KWIM? LOL
He enjoyed it THOROUGHLY for well into his first year so I think I'll "allow" him to stop now. ;) LOL

Too funny!
Sounds exactly how it went with Emilia too. It about broke my heart when she started preferring a "real" breakfast instead of boob. She really took the reins through the whole thing, and I'm glad she did because other wise I would still be nursing her at age nine! LOL
It was really hard for me to stop.

I guess it's different for everyone..
I stopped pumping at 6 weeks... I got hubby to buy me a cabbage and had it in the fridge (they say cold cabbage leaves in your bra works wonders!! :shock:) but I stopped cold turkey, had painful boobs for 1 day and that was it. I guess I was lucky.....
And maybe it is because you've done a slow wean and Zac is older....

Glad to hear your boobs are surviving this, Sara!

With my ds Aaron I stopped breasfeeding him at about a year, but because he was older and the feeding had been tapering off, I had no engorgement or pain at all.

With Maya it was a completely different story when I decided after three months of **** with her breastfeedint that I couldn't continue any longer, I was engorged and in pain for 2 weeks, not fun!

Sara and Mary, you are both right, cause you weaned feed by feed you were decreasing your milk supply so by the time you wean there isn't enough milk being produced to make you feel engorged! It is the best way to do it.