To find breastfeeding a 2 yr and 3 month old unsettling and slightly repulsive?

[Thinkingpositively]

I am guessing this thread might upset some people but really...? DH and i were shocked to learn someone we know is breastfeeding a child who can walk and speak and self determine...dh wouldn't discuss it over lunch...

YADNBU! Feeding your child really is a disgusting habit!

I think it's society gone mad! Don't women know they only have breasts to satisfy the fantasies of men?

Honestly OP - you must must must start a lobby of some kind!

Feel a bit sorry for you OP.

I remember thinking I would try and feed DD for about 6 weeks which seemed ages. Didn't occur to me that I would still be feeding her aged 2. She has just weaned which I am a bit sad about but pleased I reached the WHO guideline age. I was very naive about breastfeeding (and parenting in general), can't say I ever thought women feeding toddlers was repulsive but I didn't think it was the norm.

If you still have the same opinion after becoming a parent I will think YABU.

It's our society that is weird, not the mums who feed their children to term.

Somewhere, so you know more about human biology and evolution than all the experts, do you? Because every single study ever done on breastfeeding and human beings shows that the human child is designed to Bf much longer than a mere 2 years. You are allowed to have an opinion that it's weird and abnormal, but you are scientifically wrong. What do you think about dummies? Because they exist solely as nipple substitutes. The fact that children over a year, say, kinda shows that toddlers have an impulse to suckle beyond babyhood.

CabbageVan, my Ds likes to pretend he's a Bfing dinosaur. By yelling RAAARH and throwing himself onto boob with teeth bared. I'm thinking of catching bullets with my nips in a freak show, once he's weaned off BF

I could've told you this will not end well.

I personally couldn't imagine myself doing it but that doesn't mean I have a problem with others doing it and honestly if my DD really wanted to continue more than a year then I'd at least give it a go, if it was keeping her happy and healthy.

I've just commented on a similar thread. I breastfeed a 20 month old, who can walk, talk, signal himself that he wants fed or just shouts "booby"

Honestly I couldn't careless that it repulses anyone. They don't have to feed him. And they don't have to watch/stick around when I do feed him. That's the luxury of having autonomy over their own body, they can go away

i find it disturbing that you find it disturbing.Do you have issues?

I understand that babies and toddlers need breast milk.and postman pat, dolls , teddies and Clifford the big red dog. But a guitar and a whisk???? Now THAT is weird

I breastfed DS2 until he was 2y5m. That's not particularly old. Deal with it.

FTR, he wasn't talking at that point, but wtf does speaking have to do with whether a child nurses or not, anyhow?

Here, My eldest self weaned at 7 when her bottom teeth fell out and she couldn't latch properly, my younger daughter will be 7 in a few weeks and nurses sporadically.

Get over yourself.

Who are you, KristinaM, to deny instruments and kitchen implements the goodness of breast milk? Fascist.

Been waiting ages for an OP deserving of one of those. I was going to say for this reason God gave you a neck with swivel function, but then I realised it is not being in the same room as BF toddler that so distresses you, but the mere idea of it. The fact that this is not considered completely normal shows how warped our views of infant feeding have got. The fact that you think it is shocking is beyond sad.

I guess there is nothing positive to take from this shocking revelation!

seems like a good time to hand out a
you'll need a huge tin to store all these OP!

a poem for you:

breastmilk is yummy.
try some in your coffee.
no, you shouldn't risk it,
just have yourself a

re the stupid Dr on that good mkrning clip. 4.5 isn't that unusual, one of my DFs BF until 5years and only gave up upbecause her DD was a pain about wanting to co sleep and she'd had enough. DD2BF way past 5 because she wouldn't annoy me at night unless she was ill or had a nightmare.

Another DF had a six yearold who would steal the odd BF round their baby sibling. She had fed to 4+ and still remembered what to do. DSIL certainly fed DN at three and I ve no idea if and when she stopped (she lives a long way away)

YABU

I suggest you check the WHO guidelines on breast feeding.

Just to add my tuppenceworth.

Another extended breast feeder who fed my oldest until she was 4 - and at the time her sister was 1. Even then it was a bit of a battle to get her to give up. Younger one stopped at 2.5.

In our culture it's not accepted and I didn't bf older dd when we were out and about because of it. That's fine, she was old enough to handle it of course. But still a shame.

You may be disgusted but it doesn't make it wrong, certainly if both child and parent are happy with the situation

I do think that it might be a good idea to stop bf by the time they go to school.

when the children are asked to draw theire favourite food a picture of mummy's boobies would probably look slightly odd.

My younger DS is 4 and has just returned for a week away without me. The first thing he did was jump on my lap and ask for boob. For him, the child of divorce, it is as much about emotional attachment as well as nourishment. He is a very friendly, outgoing and happy boy so we will keep doing what we are doing. I don't really care what you think.

Yes you are being unreasonable. Globally the average age of weaning is 4. I wonder why it disgusts you so much?

I bf a very articulate and chatty 23 month old. She says it tastes like 'chocolate and ice-cream', is 'very nice' and asks for it with many 'please's' and sighs of delight. I also bf her siblings to 22 and 21 months respectively. Bf is great. They love it, it's easy, it's healthy. What's not to like?

nightlark, I wonder if your DD is on to something.

My perpetually BFing DD2 won't touch cows milk, but loves ice cream. She generally finds food rather boring and tends to only small portions, ice cream is the one exception.

Actually mine tastes like watery Carnation Milk

< disgusts OP even further >

My dd used to say it tastes like rice pudding!

Mine tastes like vanilla ice-cream. I know this because I have absent-mindedly licked it off my own hand before, and because every time DS has ice-cream, he gets all excited and shouts "COLD BOOBY!", whilst pointing to my chest and laughing.

He only gets to eat it at home

Oh, and ask him what his favourite food is, and he pats my breasts and sighs "booby" in a blissed-out voice. I cannot see any downsides to Bfing a kid of his age