Joyful,
I started weaning her off the midnite feeds by giving her water and every nite it's a 1+ hour of struggle (rocking, coaxing, pacifying her) before she goes back to sleep. It's very taxing doing that in middle of the night. I stopped when she went on the food strike for 2 weeks, then after that she fell sick. So her food intake in the day wasnt that much. I'll start again when she goes back to her usual appetite in the day.
Mrs Tan,
Wow.. your menses are not back yet? Mine came when my gal was 4MOS. As for nutritional value of BM beyond 1YO, I remember reading that it's still very much better than FM. Furthermore, we'll still be passing all the antibodies to them. The thing is that for 1YO, they should be getting their main nutritional intake from solid food and not so much from milk, whether it's FM or BM.
Actually, I feel like continuing to BF but am concerned with her cultivating it as a habit. Yah, it's going to be a big challenge for me too. I read from the babycentre site that some ang moh mummies put lemon juice on their nipples and told their little ones that mummy's milk is spoilt and turned sour. Apparently it worked for quite a no. of them. I'll slowly wean her off leaving the night feed the last to go and might just use this lemon juice trick.