I have a 14 month old bub who I want to keep breastfeeding for a while yet, however I notice that he is starting to get less interested. He feeds for a while first thing in the morning but not for very long during the day or at night. i offer about 3 in 24 hours. He doesn't wake up at night. I know they are really efficient at feeding but I don't think he is having very much apart from the morning feed. He is eating a full range of solids now, including family meals, with no assistance from me. I offer cows milk once a day (altho not every day) which he really likes. I stopped bf dd at 15 months as she had totally lost interest as well.

I know some are more keen than others, but I'm just wondering how people who bf up to 2 years or even longer manage to keep their bub's interested?

My daughter is 15 months and i am in no rush to stop but after she turned 1 i have just left it up to her to decide when she wants to wean.
If she wants to breastfeed she either gives me the sign for 'milk' (we taught her a few months back) or she just jumps on my lap and pulls at my top, some days she wont ask at all so i'll only feed her before bed and when she wakes up but some other days she can ask 3 or 4 times in the day, but if she doesnt ask then it doesnt get offered.
If your really not keen on letting her decide when she wants to feed ur going to have a battle on your hands because at this age as you know they do want they want lol

Goodluck i hope she isnt self weaning and you can continue to breastfeed for as long as you want to

So far both of my children never lost interest in breastfeeding. With my daughter we did get down to only 1 or 2 feeds a day. She would miss feeds due to being distracted more than anything, so if we were out & about she would not be interested & also for us the breastfeeding was closely associated to sleep, so when out & about, she would fall asleep via pram/car trip, therefore miss a feed. But back home & nothing much going on, or me sitting down in the usual feeding place, then she would be very much interested. I actively weaned her at 2yrs as I was over it, felt like she was never going to lose interest and we had pressure from my husband to wean.

My son is currently still breastfeeding (23 months) he has probably been a little less dependant on it than my daughter was. For the past 6 months has been down to only 2 feeds at most and declining. We have started to have stretches of 1 feed in 48 hrs, but he has never gone more than that, at some point he will ask or I will feel a feed will get him to sleep. Again the missing of feeds is more likely to occur due to distraction & same as my daughter, falling asleep via other means, but with my son, he will often go to sleep being read to or just laying down with him.

I'm the opposite of you and wonder how do people have kids that self wean at earlier ages like your son.

Breastfeeding can still be a very useful tool for me, and he is still getting a lot of nutrition & health benefits, so I don't really want to lose that. My husband has been much more relaxed so far about it all, but then other times I think we could manage without it, so I am confused as to wether to just let him self wean which could still be a while or to instigate full weaning myself.

So after that long ramble my answer is, it is really an individual thing, and like in everything child related, they are all different and if left to it, they do it in their own time so it varies a lot.

If you want to keep feeding then all you can do is keep offering when he is interested/asking. All the best, I hope he does keep feeding, as there can be great benefits for you both.