To give DS(3) breast milk?

[WinterSnow]

I don't mean directly from the breat but I'm breast feeding DS2 (6 months) and sometimes express. DS1 always pesters me for some so I sometimes give him some in a tippee cup as I imagine it's prob quite good for him, am I being weird and unreasonable?!

[pigletmania]

No go for it,

[HettyAmaretti]

YANBU or weird, definitely not. I'm sure it'll do him good as well as being good for his relationship with DS2.

[CareyHunt]

You are not being weird!

Plenty of 3 year olds are still getting it direct from source. Your breast milk still has nutritional value for your 3 year old, and you are probably avoiding all sorts of sibling rivalry.

[FetchezLaVache]

I think that's lovely!

[CareyHunt]

Ooops...x-post with Hetty!

[happy2bhomely]

Nope! Certainly no weirder than a cup of cows milk! Don't know much about the benefits, but there can't be any harm in doing at all.

[WinterSnow]

Ah thanks guys. Obviously I don't think I'm being weird but wondered what others would make of it. It's reassuring to know I'm not being judged!

[Groovymoves]

I did the same last year when DS, then 3, was very run down.

He loved it, said it was much yummier than fridge milk!

[dolldaggabuzzbuzz]

YANBU to give DS his own mummy milk. YABU to refuse him your milk at age 3!

[melpomene]

I agree YANBU and that it's less weird than giving milk from a cow if you think about it. I bfed dd2 until she was 4.

[AchtungBaby]

YANBU.

[squeezemebakingpowder]

Really lovely YANBU

[moonstorm]

I do this. My milk is for my children. YANBU

[GreenTeapot]

I did this last year when DS was really unwell. He said it made him feel all better :).

Much less weird than an adult human drinking milk from a cow!

[oldraver]

DS (5) would still have breastmilk if it up to him

[MeconiumHappens]

why not, its good healthy stuff.

[mawbroon]

Not weird and unreasonable at all, and neither would be letting him have it directly from the breast.

[AuntiePickleBottom]

yanbu, go for it

[WinterSnow]

Do you think it would have health benefits even at 3 years old? He doesn't eat meat (we're not vegetarian, he just won't eat it) so maybe it would be a good source of iron?

[5DollarShake]

Well, if cow's milk has nutritional value at that age, then why wouldn't human milk?

[Meglet]

yanbu. I split my last batch of expressed BM between DD (then 7 mo) and DS (was 2.5yo).

[fuzzpigFriday]

Go for it! Around the world plenty of 3yos are BFing anyway. It's still good stuff. Though don't be alarmed if his poo gets a bit runny/yellowy after having it regularly!

Don't be insulted if he doesn't like it though, my DD drank one cup and refused it thereafter :o

[NorksAreMessy]

Another one saying go for it. Who is being harmed? Nobody!

[skybluepearl]

go 4 it

[NoobyNoob]

Do it, I think it's a lovely thing to do and something that I'd do, too.

(lots of to's and do's in that post!)