to have laughed when my fil told my dh

[biddysmama]

that he should stop me from breastfeeding now as dd is too old? (shes 2,ds is 1 and im pg)

do people do what their husbands tell them to? ive got a mind of my own thanks very much

One more comment - I guess by your reckoning to thathow sad to not have problem with being okay about natural term breastfeeding means you are a social pariah!

Rainbow you clearly didn't watch the program, it was very even handed. Your response says it all though....

yes the programme was very even handed.
she did state quite often that she had wished she had breastfed for longer,and that with more information,and POSITIVE influence,more people would.

I'll support that I thought the programme was even handed too. They represented all opinions. Some of the mum's interviewed came across better than others but all made valid points, some I agreed with otehrs I didn't.

They didn't cover any sensationalised examples in my opinion they were all examples of everyday people I recognise amongst my friends. It definitely wasn't in the vein of crappy 5 tonne baby programmes masquerading as documentary.

Why is breastfeeding a sahm thing?

I don't think anyone here has claimed extended breastfeeding is for everyone.

i was breastfed for 2months and i get ill maybe once or twice a year.

I feel if a child has learned how to spoonfeed themselves you should stick them on a bottle. Gives them independence. It can still be expressed milk.

"I feel if a child has learned how to spoonfeed themselves you should stick them on a bottle. Gives them independence. It can still be expressed milk."

Oh what a load of phooey!

My 2 YO independently finds his way to my breast in the middle of the night.

I always find it highly amusing at how fabbychic always jumps in on bf threads to slate bf where and when she can even though she clearly demonstrates EVERYTIME that she has NO IDEA what she is talking about.

FABBY - you really do need to get some help about your insecurity about breastfeeding as it is making you look ridiculous and highly unstable.

But why should it be expressed milk? Why would you prefer that my child had my breastmilk in a cup or a bottle rather than from the breast? I don't have any shoulds about how you feed your child.

What a bloody waste of time. My DD wouldn't drink expressed breastmilk if I bribed her with cake. She likes it directly from the source and that's because bf is about more than transferring milk into your child. My milk dried up for the middle part of this pregnancy and DD still had "milkies" every day.

I don't get this push for forced independence. My daughter is 2, she is dependent on me and will be for a long time so what will having her drink milk from a bottle and not from a breast achieve? Unless she's also going to express it and wash the bottle it's not that bloody independent.

She also dresses herself, serves her own portions of food at the table and butters her own toast. Independence at her own pace.

Also agree with Rita I don't think anyone has said BF is for everyone.

bonkers20 Wed 31-Aug-11 13:24:24

My 2 YO independently finds his way to my breast in the middle of the night.

goodness there is so much rubbish on this thread on how a two year old should not be breastfeeding... where do people get their daft ideas from? there is nothing wrong with a two year old being breastfed and getting so much goodness from breastmilk and comfort from bf

and as for the statements that babies over six months should be weaned off the breast! where do these people get these ignorant ideas from???????!!!! oh yes, i forgot, far better to put a baby who is happily bf and the mum is happily doing it onto a less superior substance...

amazing at the ignorance and insecurity of some people out there

afternoon delight ha bloody ha!

I agree with Fabbychic on this thread. I actually think there is something rather sick and perverted about BF-ing a child beyond a certain age.

didyouseewhatshedid Wed 31-Aug-11 13:56:50
I agree with Fabbychic on this thread. I actually think there is something rather sick and perverted about BF-ing a child beyond a certain age.

ROFL

Does breastfeeding arouse you didyou? Is that why you're uncomfortable with it? You're uncomfortable with your own reaction to it?

I don't think I feel as strongly as you do about bf and I am feeding a toddler and training to be a bfc!!

"sick and perverted about BF-ing a child beyond a certain age"

And what age would that be?

Take your time.

"I don't think I feel as strongly as you do about bf and I am feeding a toddler and training to be a bfc!!"

didyouseewhatshedid I'd be really, really interested to see how you reacted to meeting me IRL. Say, we met at a professional conference where we got talking about common work interests and then maybe in the evening, shared dinner and talked about our personal lives. Maybe you'd find me interesting, with a good sense of humour. I'd maybe talk about my children (12 and 2) and what they're up to, the good things, the not so good, the funny, the infuriating. Heck, maybe you'd even meet the children after the meeting.
If I'd happened to mention that I was BF DS2 would you actually have the courage to say it was sick and perverted when everything up to that point would indicate otherwise? I mean, it's not like you can TELL by looking at my 2 children that they've been allowed to BF as long as they want. Do you really think it's affecting the children in some way?

Do you think my 12YO's development was damaged because he fed until he was 3? Do you think I have an unnatural relationship with him? Do you really think anyone can tell...or even cares?

Perhaps best to leave the psychology to the experts KellyKettle.
I'd say around one spudulika.

bonkers20 - if we all said what we thought in RL it would be carnage.

Luckily I don't find breastfeeding a sexual turn on so I am able to feed my toddler in a non-perverted way. Phew!

didyousee talking of psychology ...

I would make an appointment to talk with someone quickly,if I were you !

You are offensive and ignorant.

didyouseewhatshedid Um maybe, but if someone was behaving in a perverted manner towards a child I'd hope that someone would speak up - in defence of the child.

So, you witness the horror that is extended BF and just stand by and watch?!

anyone who says that bf a 2+ year old is purely for the mother has obviously never done it!

You can't force a child to breastfeed anyway, you just don't stop them.

Oh I see the woodwork has begun to disgorge its inhabitants...