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?!

No go for it,

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

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.

I think that's lovely!

Ooops...x-post with Hetty!

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.

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!

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!

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

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.

YANBU.

Really lovely YANBU

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

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!

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

why not, its good healthy stuff.

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

yanbu, go for it

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?

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

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

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

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

go 4 it

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!)