I'm still breastfeeding my 2 year old, ask me anything!

[milkandmoreso]

DC is 2 and 2 months.

Ask me anything you like People in person seem to! Just out of sheer curiosity, and I don't mind at all.

No questions from me, I just wanted to congratulate you! What an achievement to be proud of.

Have you thought about stopping or do you have a point in your mind that you'd like to stop by?
How do day and nighttime feeds differ in frequency?
Are you back to pre-baby weight? (I find it difficult to lose the last bit of weight until I stop BFing) - although I know it really doesn't matter
Does your child request boob, how do they communicate it? For me I don't want them tugging or lifting my top and I think when that starts I'll be done - I'd love to hear if when that usually happens!

Mint Thank you! It's all him really

louise I thought I'd like to have stopped by 2, but here we are... To be honest I'm not sure now. I don't want to be feeding a child in school, but then again I always thought I'd never breastfeed at all.

He's really small in size which makes him seem much younger. Maybe that helps.

I don't do nighttime feeds (we never have!).

Not back to pre pregnancy weight No. but I suspect that has got a lot to do with my newfound love of chocolate (I never use to like it), more than anything else.

He doesn't ask for it, but he doesn't talk really. It's more of a trying to pull it out thing in the morning (if we have time), or me offering it when he's really upset. It just works by him being cuddles and then it being out for him, to which he takes it. He has it going to sleep at night and I paged it then, or if he's ready for bed before bedtime he will try to get it out himself

My question would be in all honesty is this for your benefit or for his? Your post is rather self congratulatory and I am not convinced it is the greates thing for your toddler

Excuse me?!

How on Earth is it for my benefit? I do get to just breath him in and get a lot of cuddles that I wouldn't otherwise have, but as for me benefiting and not him, fuck off.

The nutritional benefits of breastfeeding are still very much present at 2. No change, a switch doesn't suddenly go off and a child stops benefiting from it at 2.

It's him that's benefiting the most, not me. It comforts him like nothing else

I am not convinced it is the greates thing for your toddler

What evidence do you have to say it's not the greatest thing for him, other than a dislike for toddlers feeding?

Yeah sure ok.

Cyma Are you quite alright? Or did you just come on to my thread to belittle me

Well done :)
RE your benefit or child's, you are aware that the WHO say at least 2 right?
We've just stopped this week with my DD1, she turned 3 a couple of weeks ago, damn right am I going to be self congratulatory about it, it was fucking hard at times! It was also the first thing her dietitian checked every time we saw them as she wanted it to continue as long as I could manage.

Well done! Ignore the idiots trying to downplay your achievements. You've done amazing nourishing your child for so long. Only someone who hadn't breast fed a toddler would assume it is only for your benefit. Keep boobing and doing what is right for YOUR child.

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Does he get cows milk? I'm feeding my 1 year old and nursery give her cows milk but the longer I have fed her for the more I've felt grossed out by giving her milk that is meant for another baby animal. It feels a lot less natural to me than e.g. eating meat so I've gone dairy free. But I'm not sure where to go with e.g. giving her oat milk instead or if I should keep expressing.

A couple of ignorant idiots on here already I see! Good luck getting a toddler to do something they don't want to do! But better to them to have milk from another species than their own mother, right?

Well done, OP! That's a great achievement. My DD is 9mo and when we started I just wanted to make it to 6mo, but now I'm quite happy to keep going until she wants to stop!

What do you think would happen if you just stopped doing it?

Will you still be offering it to him at 3? Or 4? Etc

I personally don't understand all the self congratulatory stuff and I do think it's rather strange past about 9 months or a year. Each to their own though.

Do your family think you're weird? Mine thought I was barking mad after about 10 months, but I convinced them to shut up about it around me at least.

Do you use the expression 'boobing?'

From what you'e said your son is only feeding from you a little bit now. Presumably he is eating well. I've often seen people with two children, one a toddler and one a little baby, the baby is breast fed and toddler comes along and has a little feed afterwards. That's quite sweet.

When he goes to nursery he'll wear himself out charging about and will be eating and drinking like the other children. Breast feeding will gradually taper off naturally so don't worry about it. You've done well! It's not going to last forever.

How disappointing to read some of the comments from posters who are uninformed about natural term weaning. Have you had any such experiences in real life? Do you have a partner and how do they feel about it?

Also I don't know about you, OP, but I really feel
breastfeeding has prevented my DD getting quite a few bugs. Her dad and I have picked up several nasty colds from all the various baby classes and other stuff, but she's only ever had one very mild cold (and DP and I were really unwell with that one, but she got a sniffle and that was basically it). She's also been around some quite contagious stuff (we didn't know at the time, obviously) and avoided it all. I know it's impossible to quantify, but I do credit breastfeeding.

Congratulations! Me too. My baby is two later this month. I didn’t expect to be able to bf so I am still in awe of it’s magic and have just trained with the children’s centre to be a bf peer supporter.

My question: do you need out and about? I’ve become very self conscious as our society still seems to mock toddler bf, so we only feed at home now.

Oops. Typo. That should say ‘do you still FEED, out and about’?

Ignore the negative posters.

I did find that between the ages of 2-2.5 years feeds went back to almost newborn frequency which was tough and coincided with her molars coming through. As soon as they had come through she went to literally 30 seconds every few weeks just because she could.
DD had her last feed the night before she turned 3 and declared herself a 'big girl'.

When I see toddlers now I wonder how on Earth I did it as they seem very big and Dd has always been tall for her age so in age 5 clothes at 3 but didn't seem that way to me at the time.
She's 10 now and seems to have received most of the reported benefits from extended breastfeeding, although obviously have no idea if she would be the way she is if I hadn't.

@Celebelly I think this too. My DS has had one ear infection and one mildly snotty cold in 2 years. That’s amazing isn’t it?

My daughter is also 2 years and 2 months. I stopped breastfeeding just shy of 1yr. She was eating 3 meals a day, walking, becoming independent etc. I also wanted my body back. She always took a bottle too (of expressed milk) from birth so the switch to formula then cows milk was very easy.
My daughter is now growing up quickly and as sassy as anything. The thought of her sucking on my boob now quite frankly weirds me out! I really don't know how people with older children do it. The thought of a 5 year old coming in from school and asking for booby is just
Each to their own but for me, I have always associated BF with babies. Once they can ask for it it's time for me to stop.
I saw a lady on a flight not long ago with a 2 year old absolutely clawing at her clothes trying to get to the boob. The mum didn't want to (on a busy flight) and this kid was just going crazy. I was so glad my daughter was sitting happily with her water cup!