DS4 is 14 months now and I am still happily breastfeeding him. No one really cares or comments except ex and his family. I generally just humour ex by smiling and nodding but I am sick of justifying myself to his mother family.
I have two children with ex and he wants to take them abroad with his family, as they are very young I am going too oh joy and the thought of a weeks worth of 'discussions' about breast feeding is making me stressed - I've never even fed DS in front of them, I have to take him upstairs when they are seeing the children.
I get tutted at when I say I am going upstairs to feed him and lectured when I get back, comments include:
Why is that child still on the tit (tit ffs!)? He's got teeth, he doesn't need it, it's not right and I am only doing it because I need to feed him, I must be getting 'some sort of pleasure out of it' (implying sexual pleasure), I'm making him clinging, look at the size of him he doesn't need milk anymore, it's the reason he won't sleep through, I'm only doing it to keep them away from him, I shouldn't feed him in public as men might fantasise about it.... You get the gist.
I answer by saying that the WHO recommends feeding until two (which they say is rubbish) and that of course he still needs milk (again rubbish) and I try and point out the benefits of breast milk (so why does he seem to always have a cold then?) but I get talked over and talked down.
Their main arguement is that I should get of that mumsweb or whatever that fills my head with nonsense
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InspirationFailed · 11/04/2014 09:05
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