  Renee over at urlLink Like a Baby along with Lisa at urlLink Coley's Blog both speak of recently weaning their wee ones. Renee's Chloe is 13 months old and Lisa weaned Coleen at 6 months. I for one aspire to breastfeed my Ellie _forever_.
Please know that I won't be one of those nursing my seven year old moms, this is all in jest. My primary motivation for nursing forever is that I love the size of my breasts. Like Samantha on Sex and the City said after breast cancer threatened her beauties (sorry to be the spoiler if you've fallen behind in episodes this season), "they're pretty fabulous! " Typically, when I lose weight, my face thins a lot between the size 11 and 9 markers. Then, when nearing that coveted size 7, I lose the breasts. But not now! I'm nearing my goal and I'm still a ample C cup, and not that urlLink cheating nearly C you see on ads, either! After I wean, I'll go back to my natural B cup, or maybe I'll claim a nearly C just so I can have a bra that says C, but the breasts after weaning just feel so empty!
It's like devoid of their prior mana, they're just a little sad. Every baby has their little dips in interest in the big nunie at several points in the first few years. When they take a developmental leap, these dips tend to show up, but they're also famous for appearing at 9 and 12 months. I think it was around 16 months that Aidan's interest in nursing was waning and I was preparing a trip out of town (to DC for the protests, when we conceived our beautiful Ella! ) sans Aidan. So I stopped offering the breast to him, and he was such a busy toddler by then that he didn't think to request it so often. It was a pretty gentle transition. The worst of it was the first time he got a cold after I weaned him, and I didn't have that breast to make everything instantly better. I also missed that close reconnect that can be so illusive with a toddler, especially with a toddler boy.
My friend Alina is pregnant with her second child and therefore is trying to wean her first. He's about 14 months old, but his interest in the breast is still pretty strong. I told her I'd read in several sources (I'll find them to link later) that breast milk changes taste around the sixth month, thus encouraging the older baby to wean him/herself in time for the critical growth period of the third trimester, the only time that a pregnant mom's body might not want to divert energy to the nursing baby.
After Alina goes through it, I'll check back with her for her experience of the whole affair. Interesting, though, if she doesn't wean during her pregnancy, or if her son has a relapse when he sees his new sibling nursing, I've been reading in Dr. Sears' the Successful Child , that nursing together is a fantastic way to promote bonding between two young siblings that are otherwise too developmentally young to understand your other encouragements to bond. If nature can accommodate nursing twins, I'm quite certain nature can accommodate nursing a toddler and infant as well. Up until a month ago, I literally felt like nursing Ella forever. I felt so instinctive about how much she needed me.
But lately, that feeling is a little less intense. I think it's a natural effect of her growing up. When you parent by instinct, it's such a paint by numbers feeling. You see the picture emerge as you respond to your body and your baby. The truth is I have no idea how long I'll nurse my baby girl. I'm just feeling my way along. I'll go as long as is mutually needed. Up until this month I thought that would for sure be until she's at least two. These days, though, she has me wondering! 
