Well, she was a super-organized mom, with a super-organized baby who scheduled himself more or less. Or as she calls it--both Type-As.

First they worked on the night weaning when mom went away for a girl's night out and dad used the bottle to feed pumped milk, which the little one wasn't into. So, they tried night weaning by having dad go in the room for cuddles. It took about a week or two, but he stopped nursing at night.

At that point he was nursing 4 times a day--like I said, he was like clockwork. So she replaced the two middle of the day feedings with cow's milk. She still holds him and uses a bottle for it (even though the ped has said to use a sippy instead, but whatever, it works for them). And he's totally fine with all that. Then at some point she'll drop one of the other feedings. Her goal is to have weaning accomplished by 18 months and so far it looks like they'll do it. But one of the big things that makes this easy for them is her son is not a comfort nurser (my son totally is). I know child-led weaning is best, but it's important for mom's sanity too to wean when she has reached her wall.

I'm hoping to still be nursing at 18 months, but plan to get more active about weaning at 24 months if he hasn't weaned himself. So I'm curious to see if people had plans or just went with the flow.

I recently got the book The No Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and she says that children often night wean first then day wean. She gives a full plan and techniques, it is well done.