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AIBU?

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To give DS(3) breast milk?

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WinterSnow · 23/06/2011 18:49

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?!

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biddysmama · 23/06/2011 21:48

my dd is 27 months and still breastfed so i say yanbu :)

veritythebrave · 23/06/2011 21:57

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linklonk · 23/06/2011 22:01

Great thread, it's so nice to see the support that is often lacking around us. Of course plenty of people do it, even tandem feed. You have lucky children!

goldtinsel · 23/06/2011 22:06

I was still doing a last thing at night feed for DS when he was nearly 4...he commented one time that my milk tasted funny and with an OMG! realisation I knew I was pregnant again!
So if he tells you the same don't be surprised!

AchtungBaby · 24/06/2011 08:31

I should have said in case anyone's interested, there's a natural term BFing support thread here.

CareyHunt · 24/06/2011 12:18

Thankyou Achtung. It's so lovely to read such supportive messages.

I'm still bfing my 4 year old and sadly, sometimes reactions aren't so positive.

stuffthenonsense · 24/06/2011 13:17

oh thats wonderful! please just do it.

out of curiosity, (and im not in this position, just nosy, i tandem fed my first 3) would it work to start feeding breast milk from source at this age, or would a 3 year old have forgotten how to latch?

hugeleyoutnumbered · 24/06/2011 13:27

milk is milk is milk, mammals are meant to drink their own milk, ie you can buy specially formulated milk for cats and other pets if you look around, what better for a baby that breast milk, don't see that it changesv as tyhey get older good for you OP its perfectly natural

hairfullofsnakes · 24/06/2011 13:35

What a gorgeous thread and it is great to read about long term bf - my 21 month old is still crazy for breastmilk!

WoTmania · 24/06/2011 13:45

Stuff - a 3 year old if not BF for a while would probably have forgotten. :( you can tetrain them but it depends if you want to go through all that faff.

OP I'd go for it. Just think of all the lovely anitbodies he'd be getting if nothing else.

Nowtspecial · 24/06/2011 14:09

I'm about to pop and will give my 4 year old cups of it if she likes it, and there is enough ( she mostly missed out first time round for medical reasons ). It never fails to boggle my mind that people think drinking human milk is strange compared to cows milk, no logic.

LolaRennt · 24/06/2011 14:17

DD1 wouldn't bf and my milk dried up I have high hopes that when dc 2 is born that I will produce enough to do what you are doing, and for as long as they both will drink it.

valiumredhead · 24/06/2011 15:27

I think that is lovely and would be tempted to go 'direct from source' as some mentioned earlier :)

wotss · 24/06/2011 15:53

I have a friend who remembers being breastfed when she was 3 or 4 and her younger sister was born . As in, she wasn't still bf'ing but remembers being let back on to try now & again. I guess even if she'd forgotten how to latch properly it would be easy enough if you were actually spurting milk.

I'd imagine sharing from a cup - & knowing that it's mummy's milk which his brother is sharing with him - would also be lovely & close, if you don't want to go direct from source.

I bf mine till she was 4, & it's really nice that she has actual memories of it.

MissVerinder · 24/06/2011 16:15

Oh, that's lovely. DD breastfed until 26 months, when we had the "conversation" about her being a big girl. I would totally give her some in a cup if I had another baby.

LadyGok · 24/06/2011 16:55

How lovely he wants your milk my lad now 14 was bf till he was 3 he has fond memories of it as do my other children.

Its lovely to know others did or are extending feeding.

Once mine reach 6 months most folks didn't approve and it was the look of horror after they hit 1 and/or had teeth then too. Did I care did I feck.

Mamatasha · 24/06/2011 20:44

I have a 3 month old and 3.5 year old and am feeding both from the source! I get negative comments but i am too tired to stop especially as i am on my own with them, the elder one is never ill though.

Limelight · 24/06/2011 21:02

YANBU

DS (just turned 4) was intensely curious about BFing when DD was born. He wanted to know what she was drinking so I gave him a cup. Curiosity satisfied, he's never asked again. It was obviously enough for him!

oldraver · 25/06/2011 00:16

wotts DS was fed until just past four (now 5 1/2) and he will occasionally tells me he misses his 'boobie'. I stopped feeding for a number of reasons one being that in a conversation with him I realised he was convinced, as it was so natural for him, that everyone of his age had B/M. With him about to start school I didnt want him to be in a position where he mentioned it at school and got teased for it.

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