LillianGish - have to agree with her though, I hated breastfeeding a lot when feeding DS three-hourly through the night, and DH could sleep through as there was nothing he could do!

(Stuck at it though, still going at 11 months. No more night feeding though!)

a hv and i use the term loosely told me that he really should be on just solids at 18 months and it had no benefits to him anymore ( i told her to fuck off and walked out). my ds stopped bf at 2years 11 months due to mutual agreement! and the other day (he is now 3years 6 months) he ponted to my boobs and said "there is no more milkies in there is there mummy, i drank it all!" i replied no there wasnt and he said " it was my favourite though wasnt it" i replied yes and he said "can i have it again!!" i replied no to which he asked if he could have a ben 10 lunchbox to help him deal with it!!!!!!

I took dd for her 4month jabs at 1yr.

The nurse looked at her form and asked me if I was exclusively bfing. When I said 'no' (obviously - she'd been on solids as well as bfing for the past 6 months), she suggested I see a breastfeeding consultant

"Of course the problem with breast feeding is only you can do it" - from my MIL.

I love this thread.

I had, from a male colleague:

"In these days of advanced science and technologies, I can't believe that there's any excuse for women still to breastfeed"

Needless to say he was given short shrift...

one of my NCT group said that her dh felt ff was better as 'you don't know what's in breastmilk'!? I was the only one to exclusively bf. The rest were all quite negative re bf - so not indoctrinated by NCT as is usually claimed!

My Great Aunt suggested the reason my 2 month old was vomiting a lot after every feed was maybe because my milk was "too strong for her".Like it needed diluting in some way!

But as she is not a health professional, I can forgive her for this unscientific statement, unlike the HV who told me "you can't overfeed a bf baby" because "they have to work harder" to feed and it was probably reflux and I should go to the GP to get Gaviscon. Funnily enough, when I stopped offering my horse of a daughter 'seconds'after being winded, the problem disappeared. (Greedy?Yes. Lazy?No)

My 90 year old gran told me today that breastfeeding beyond six months is now known to be terribly bad for babies. I asked her who was saying that and she said everyone I pointed out that the WHO, Unicef and the DoH aren't saying that, but she was adamant that this was in fact the case. The curious thing is that I've just googled the Telegraph, which is where she usually gets her mad stories from, and they seem to be broadly pro-bfing, so I'm not sure where she's got it from.

On the plus side, it made a nice change from her telling me how she had to stop bfing my uncle when he was three months because her milk was too rich, which she's told me pretty much every week for the past year (that one just makes me sad).

3 year old nephew pointed at my nipples and asked if they were made of chocolate
Twas very cute if a little bizarre