To think their is NOTHING wrong with extended breastfeeding or wet nursing?

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I was researching extended breastfeeding and came across this.
I see nothing wrong with this, I wouldn't be 'scared' for life if I could remember being breast fed or found out I was given someone else's milk.
I think the only 'scarring' would come from going from the natural environment of being fed from something to then finding out a large majority find it sexual, not the actual feeding itself.

I dont think there was ever a post about bf being disgusting???
I cannot see any benifit for EBF and for me that is Bf till after 4 at the max! I'm around these little people every day and they are not babies! They should be encouraged to explore the world around them and grow in to independant children. Thats whats nurture is a bout. My breasts are NOT here to be suckled on indefinatly! Thats just an excuse for mothers who can not bear there children growing up - by the way this is directed at mothers that do it 5,6,7,8+ before you all start screaming about the benifits of Breast milk.

Yep breast milk is full of wonderfull things but 5,6,7+ should not need it due to a healthy diet. Do these children still have a bottle, dummy for comfort?

What worries me is i have a feeling that some mothers dont even have milk left and are just letting there older 'off springs ' suckle on a dry breast for comfort...

I think there is going to a lot of weirdo MIL threads on here in a few years time...

I wonder if any EBF's do so solely by expressing milk?

Is the 'suckling' comforting part more or less important than the nutrient part.

Does noone else find "don't listen to French feminists" by fromparistoberlin amusing?

Its a well know fact that you can produce milk for as long as you have a child feeding.

Well at least in the absence of any illness or hormone issues.

Pg 10 there are comments about bfeeding wierdos and it being disgusting.

cantspel: I bf DS, this doesn't reduce me to just a nursing mother. We have a feed every morning but on my university days he will happily have milk from a cup whilst I'm not there, I am not limited or defined purely by breastfeeding (and will be less so as he gets older and goes longer without milk).

Supply and demand whilst a child nurses the breasts will recieve tge signal to make milk.and now ebf will be wierdo mils...

You do realise children that bfeed past 4yrs are still independent, still go to school, sleepovers etc and everything else that their peers do.

Nutritionally bmilk is superior to cows milk and has immunw benefits. You
cannot force a child to bfeed.

Msmy children also suck their thumbs at bedtime or have a favourite comforter/soft toy all perfectly normal.

5mad I not disgusted about other mothers bf if they choose to do but it doesnt mean i would agree with still bf a near 7 yr old. is that the post? --i completely agree. Or was it the line before about her feeling disgusted at the thought of doing it herself? which is perfectly natural too. Lots of mothers choose not to do.
This thread is not about breast feeding -which a lot of lazy ebf posters keep hiding behind, Its about excessive breast feeding in to children that are nearly reaching puberty!

Breast milk drys up within a couple of weeks some posters have said that there older off springs havnt had any for a while, couple of months, i think but still enjoys the odd slurp. Or was that a wind up, i dont know? What the hell is the point in letting a child on a dry breast....[hmmm]

Yep indeed we are all animals at the end of the day so for those going down that route about our breast are designed solely for feeding, im SURE other species DO NOT let there odd springs suckle for years on end!

Bloody hell. Only skimmed this thread but alongside some really great and insightful evidenced posts from all sides of debate stunned at the bitter and personal attacks.

Sheesh people living in poverty; kids dying of neglect; women being abused-the 101 topics we should really be getting aggy about and here are women attacking other women for their feeding choices. Yey the sisterhood hey?

Unless I've missed it do fathers never play a role in deciding on feeding approaches (certainly my DP and I discussed all our choices for each of 4 DC) - or is it a case of she who has breasts gets to get beaten up whatever she decides whole daddy oblivious.

Really disappointed - personal attacks the end of useful discussion.

Ultimately though, the parent with the breasts gets the final say in breastfeeding.

Breast milk doesn't dry up in a couple of weeks esp when you have been breeding for months/years. I bed for over nine years I can still squeeze milk out now having not fed for well over a year!

Animals let their offspring nurse until they are essentially years old yes in terms of development/size/weight etc actually yes. Again Google it.

My dp and I chatted about it but we didn't plan on bfeeding as long as i did, it just happened that way and dp saw the benefits and was happy if I was happy. But ultimately yes its up to the mother as they are her breasts.

I bfed not bed..

Absoluteeightiesgirl, some babies walk at 9mo-surely you can't seriously be saying that the moment they start walking you wean them?! My lad is 20mo and still breastfed morning and evening(if he asks for it, which he nomally does). How is that any different from giving a nearly 2 year old a bottle of cow's milk morning and night?

Sorry but it doesn't dry up after a couple of weeks, not after the early days. It can take months. Supply is not as fragile as we are led to believe...

Exactly Bertie in the early weeks it can do but once feeding is established it won't just dry up like that!

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Oh FFS read the rest of the thread. I really can't be arsed to keep re-posting the same comment over and over again

At what age would you go up to if they still kept going for a slurp? And please dont say ''till they wanted'' would like to know when XBF mothers feel enough id enough.

I would just do what I did which was don't offer, don't refuse so yes as .long as they wanted and they would lose the ability to latch by about seven, sometimes a bit later.

It's nearly a year since DD bfed, and my right nork still produces small amounts. The left one's given up, though. Five years in total I bfed.

I found that as well. My DD would only feed from my right boob. It got massive. My sister used to refer to it as my bionic boob. Still producing over a year after I stopped albeit only small amounts.

Ive just seen a link for a 17 year old breast feeding in USA would you deem that too old? As of course they would still need all the anti bodies, vital vitiamins and such and your children are your children??

Off to work now - so if i smell sour milk on my 7/8 year olds i know what it is...prob better than there parents cigerette smoke tho!

Oh fgs you can find links for all sorts of crap on the internet it doesn't make it true.

Children naturally lose the ability to match as they lose their milk teeth. That happens well before 17, for most children it starts around age five/six.

www.naturalchild.org/guest/ann_sinnott.html. some info on natural term breeding from an anthrological POV.