I heard cabbage leaves on your boobs helps them dry out
I sent my 2.5 year old with my sister for a week. Thatās how I did it. Lol
My son stopped on his own shortly before he turned three
Have him a bottle ifhe hungry he eat
The only thing I know works is put a bandaid on it !
Hope he has his own room and bed
Let the baby decide.
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Start feeding him solid foods
Get a cow for his room
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Kari Lynn VanSteenwyk
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Following because I also need help
Put mustard on your nipples.
Weaning him wonāt stop him from waking up at night, you should let his dad try to get him to sleep, take turns! Of course you are exhausted. Itās a lot for only you.
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If he eats food he doesnāt need to breastfeed. Try pumping and serve it to him itās his meal, slowly mix real milk with it so the taste is acquired. Tell him itās the same as mommies milk and heās a big boy now.
EDIT: since people want to get uptight and argue. 1- I never said babies didnāt need to breastfed or didnāt need breast milk
2- never said cows milk was āreal milkā
3- never said babies donāt need comfort!
Simply was giving a solution to the woman who posted this question whom DOESNT WANT TO BRESTFEED ANMORE!!
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I told my son that there was no more milkies. He stopped on one side first and then the other. But when each one ādried up/closed for business/whatever way you want to explain itā and he had finished nursing he put a bandaid on it to cover it up and ācloseā
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Bandaids on nipples tell him boobies are broken. Worked for both kids!
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Iām on day 3 of no boob for my son and itās frikin rough. I told him mommyās boobies are broken. We both just cry when he cries and begs for it. Sending love your way momma itās so hard to do!
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We weaned at night time first. I had my husband go in to comfort my son instead of me. Then we took away a session a week. By the end we did a ādont offer, donāt refuseā method. He just stopped on his own. The whole thing took just about 2 months.
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Night weaning doesnāt mean heāll stop waking up at night.
But the way thatās easiest on the child is āDonāt offer, donāt refuseā
Try to distract with another method, and distract as long as possible if it works. Nurse when the distraction stops working or if it doesnāt work, but never offer the breast. Shorten the nursing session gradually. Offer a substitute but allow him to swap between substitution and breast. He will gradually nurse less and less, and the substitutions/distractions will become the comfort during the night wakes.
Substitute option could be a sippy cup or bottle of milk. Distraction could be rocking him (try chest to chest, his head on your shoulder and his feet behind you. Very comforting position).
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Truthfully nothing worked with my son. I was so exhausted and frustrated one afternoon that I used a drop of Tabasco sauce on my nipple. He tried, made a face and I told him the milk went bad. He never asked again.
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I mean I donāt really reccomend this, but q friend put some of that bitter nail polish on her nipples. Kid never wanted the boob again
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My son was 22 months and we stopped completely. He wasnāt wanting to give it up and was waking to nurse a lot I had enough so I just stopped it took 3 days but by the end of the week he was sleeping through the night.
I stopped breastfeeding when he turned 3. I grabbed a red crayola marker and some bandaids and stuck them on my nipples, I told him I has owees, he never asked for the boob again.
I do a timer. You only get 5 min to nurse then 3 then 1 then 30 seconds. Initially I dropped the bedtime session because u no they r so tired. But thats the only one I dropped until she got use to falling asleep without nursing. First it took 1 hour and it was so hard but then it was 45 minutes then 20 and it dropped to 9 minutes and no more crying. Best of luck 
Contact a lactation consultant and/or your pediatrician. Wellness Lactation -Rachelle Markham & Associates, LLC has a FB page and a website. They do virtual consults and accept most insurance.
I think this is a personal choice. I could not breast feed my babies. They were all bottle fed and it had to be that way. When a baby starts walking they no longer need you to feed them. I am totally disgusted by some of these women who are breast feeding their 5 year old!!! THAT is child abuse!!! 5 years old is waaaaaay too old to be asking your mother for her breast!!! ANY woman that is breast feeding a 5 year old child, is doing it for herself NOT for the child!!! There is no longer any nutritional value there. 2 years old is too long. I would stop right now, this goes on much longer and you will have your five year old asking for your boob. Thats just too much!!!
Should have been done long ago!