Weaning a two-and-a-half-year old is HARD :(

[Crayola kiddies]

I have 5 children .... I bf all of them ..... I wished I could have fed each of them a little longer but the longest was 3 months .....but I fed for nutrition and because it was cheaper .... Once you have more then one child its not convienience for sure because the minute I would get a baby latched on one (or more) of the other kids got into sonething or misbehaved in someway that needed my immediate attention .... So it was purely nutrition and trying to save a bit of money ... Same reason I cloth diapered my first two ..... When you are bf a child who eats regular food and drinks out of a cup .... Then its for comfort only..... In third world countries then yes it's for nutrition but not here. When a child eating regular food needs to bf in the night its for comfort because they dont know any different ..... But what happens us the attachment parenting stops working for the parent .... Such as the OP stated "I am so DONE with breast feeding " and "we are trying to get her to sleep in her own bed beside ours" this parent wants her body and her bed back ..... I don't blame her ..... But I always say "start how you want to finish" If the child had always slept in her own bed and if she had weaned her off of breast feeding at around 8 or 9 months when the child was able to drink from a cup .... This thread would not exist because she would not have these issues .... And like mickeyc ..... I would not even entertain having an AP child in my daycare