I was taking to another mother at gymnastics yesterday. She casually mentioned that she sometimes still breastfeeds her SIX year old. That sometimes her six year old will come to her and “have a go” and that she has milk left. I’m not making this up, it really happened, and she wasn’t pulling my leg.
I truly had no idea what to do with my face, so I made it look very polite.
Isn’t this a bit weird? I mean, the six year old will remember it when she’s older, surely?
I want to be told I’m being judgemental and unreasonable - because I feel bad for being so judgmental and horrified!
This child has no younger siblings, btw, so it’s not like she’s doing it because they are.
I have a six year old boy and there’s no way in hell I would occasionally breastfeed him! I breastfed up until he was 18 months, so it’s not like I’m not sympathetic to long-ish term breastfeeding.