to think 18 months is still a perfectly normal age to be breastfeeding?

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DH has been making noises about this for a while but this morning he said it's 'weird' that I'm still BF DD2 at 18 months.

He even said he mentioned it to the other mums at DD1's gymnastics class and they thought it was weird too! He also said you never see other people BF toddlers, but I pointed out that noone ever sees me BF DD2 either really as I don't tend to do it out of the house.

Now I don't really care what anyone else thinks, as long as me and DD2 are happy about it. She only feeds morning and evening and is quite happy to go to bed without it if I'm not there.

But I wondered what the general consensus is- I think 18 months is still pretty young to be BF really, she's still a baby (ish!). Or is my viewpoint just skewed?

Btw, I'm happy to stop when she's ready but she doesn't show any signs of giving up at the moment.

YANBU WHO advises women to breastfeed for two years to reap the full health benefits. I breastfed a 2YO, I only told people who i knew wouldn't think me strange.I suspect it is more common than most people realise.

No not weird,lovely,in fact....
I'm still feeding DS who is 17 months,and I fed DD until 18 months.
I also suspect it is more common than you would think as I rarely feed out of the house.

Not wierd it's lovely

unfortunately my children missed the memo informing them that breastfeeding at the age of 18 months is not normal

They also all missed the one about bf-ing at 2 being a bit strange

and the one about bf-ing at 3 being "only for the mother's benefit".

Oh well, they all stop eventually, when they've had enough (or I can't bear to let them have it any more)

I bf DD until she was 27mth and I've been bf'ing DS for 8 months and still going strong. Once DD was approx 12mth, she didn't really want to bf when out and about - there was far too much going on in the world to face a booby for 5 minutes and I suspect that is the case for many mums and toddlers who bf...

If you and your DD are happy, then don't worry what others think. As for your DH, I'd be tempted to tell him to be supportive or shut the f*ck up. I'd have been hugely offended and angry if my DH said that breastfeeding an 18mth old baby is weird