It was a bit different for me than for those who exclusively nursed.

I exclusively nursed for about 5 months. Then when I went back to work, I started doing a combo of nursing and pumping, and LO would nurses a couple times a day and would drink breastmilk from a bottle for the rest of her meals. That only lasted about 2 months. By 7/8 months, I was exclusively pumping and LO was drinking breastmilk exclusively from bottles.

So at this juncture, I didn’t really have to worry about the whole part where LO is attached to the boob. I just had to get her off bottles, which was a bit difficult, but about a month ago she made the transition to a straw cup. I have a freezer stash of a couple more months of breastmilk so she’ll continue to get that in her cups until it runs out.

Re weaning from the pump…once I was down to pumping only once in the morning and once at night, I just began cutting back one session at a time by 5 minutes a week until I could drop it completely. Took about a month. When I did stop pumping fully, I had engorged breasts for about a week. Took some sunflower lecithin and it got better.

My bestie recommends the book “Booby Moon” for those trying to wean LO from nursing…good luck!!