Are you still nursing? The girl who wanted to quit every five minutes? You're still going? I thought you woulda cashed in your nursing bra many moons ago.

Hahaha, Austin does the exact same thing! Booby monsters, these kids are.

Yep, he's getting cow's milk every so often, but boy, oh boy does that PISS him off if I'm around. He'll take it just fine during the day for the MIL, but if he knows I'm home, and we try to give him a bottle, he looks at us like "What the shit are you trying to pull on me?!?! Give me my goddamn boob! Oh, yeah, that's it.. here comes a scream! I'm gonna make myself throw up on this one too, you assholes!"

Dr. Jay Gordon is good. But if the subtle, slow approach of dropping a feeding at a time is too time consuming or not working my advice is to leave for a few days and let someone else deal with the misery. Are you giving him milk yet? If not, start now.

I weaned my 16 month old (who was already down to just a couple of nursing sessions each day) through distraction when I was about 7 months pregnant and desperate to get her off of me! My LLL leader suggested introducing some other activity/treat (crutch) to be administered proactively before my daughter would want to nurse. For us, it was popsicles and sitting in the baby pool in our back yard. We ate a crap-load of popsicles for a few weeks, but it worked like a charm. You run the risk of getting your kid addicted to something else, but as long as that something else isn't physically attached to your body, you'll have succeeded.

I'm starting to think he might be truly still be shitting himself at 4 or 5 years old. Nothing is working. He does NOT care if he wets or soils himself. He's proud when he DOES go "pee pee in the potty!" but the concept never sticks with him.
If he's not trained by September, they won't let him start pre-school. This is getting critical.

Actually the potty training vacation did work for me lol.
I'd been trying to train Ewan since he was about 2 and a half (i split with his father just before he was 2 then Ewan was in hospital the month after his 2nd birthday so thought it best to get over those traumas).
Anyway fast forward 2 more YEARS with my patience gone I had a very head strong 4 year old who REFUSED to go toilet even after 8 hours.
I went to London for the weekend when he was 4 years and months and voila he was dry!
Not that i'm trying to scare you about headstrong boys ;o)

I don't remember exactly how I weaned Mason--I think I just slowly skipped feedings every week. I eventually got down to just the AM and PM feed, then took away the AM feed. The PM feed was last to go. It actually went pretty smooth.
Good luck and WTG for making it to 1 yr--especially being as crazy busy as you are!

That is actually not a bad idea. I could get a vacation, and come back to a weaned son. Wait, can I try this with potty training too? :)

Ok i know nothing about breastfeeding, my 2 days of it don't count. But i'm wondering if you could cold turkey it and send him off to a relative/friend for a few nights?
Or alternatively you stay somewhere for a few nights so that he gets the idea that being at home doesn't mean boob juice anymore?

Thanks... that's kinda what I was thinking. A friend sent me an article by Dr. Jay Gordon that suggested something similar. It's his brand of sleep training, without calling it that.

Yargh...I'm trying to remember...I weaned no. 1 onto a bottle so we didn't have "nipple wars" until it was time to take him off of that, and he was a lot older than your little guy so I don't think the same techniques would work. As I've said before, no. 2 basically self-weaned at around a year (oh my God, I was so lucky, too).
If he nurses every two hours, maybe you could try a week at every four hours? Once he's used to that, every six? Then every eight? I have no idea if that will work or not, I just feel so strongly for you that I'm trying to suggest anything that makes any sense whatsoever. :(

Everytime I've weaned it's been because of a pregnancy, so this time with no pregnancy in sight, I have no idea what to do. I guess I'll just let him nurse till he's 25...maybe by then there will be some other woman as kick ass as me for him to get tit off of. But, to be sort of helpful when I weaned my daughter Max I would just cuddle with her and give her soft toys and blankets and stuff like that. She slept in my bed though, and it was hell getting her to sleep in her own bed later..so...I guess I should have done that when I weaned her.
How do you find time to do ANYTHING? I have a house, four kids (three of them spend three days a week with their dad), no pets, an at home sort of job...and that's it. Sometimes at night I feel batty from cleaning and cooking and caring, how do you do it!?

Wow, you are busy..I am amazed you kept it up as long as you have.....
I night wean my at around a year (gently) to retain some of my sanity.