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

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Thinkingpositively · 31/05/2013 23:23

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...

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maddening · 31/05/2013 23:35

you'd have to rip your own brain out if you visited me and my 2yr 4mth old - when do you want to come - oh do come round :)

yabu - it is sweet FA to do with you - you sound like you have a repulsively narrow mind

TheSecondComing · 31/05/2013 23:35

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Whatalotofpiffle · 31/05/2013 23:36

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Iggi101 · 31/05/2013 23:36

When pg with dc1 I remember seeing a small child bfing, and saying to my friend at the time that he seemed too old to do that as he could walk. Dc1 comes along a few months later, and happily fed for at least a year after he could walk - it's easy to have opinions about bf when you aren't actually bfing anyone, it all seems a lot more natural when it's your baby and you understand what they want and need!
I also thought dummies were gross and reins unnecessary. And thought I'd use cloth nappies. You live and learn Grin

HoHoHoNoYouDont · 31/05/2013 23:36

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carabos · 31/05/2013 23:36

Dog shit on the pavement is repulsive. Breast feeding your infant is natural, healthy behaviour. I suggest you check out the definition of repulsive, and while you're about it, look up stupid.

LaChaiseVerte · 31/05/2013 23:37

Hahaha.

Please do get over it. Unless they're asking you to get involved, your opinion needs to be kept to yourself.

There are so, so many distressing things to be shocked/repulsed/worried by, it really is a ridulous waste of your energy to give brain space to the feelings you experience on hearing an acquaintance is using her mammary glands for their primary physiological purpose.

stretch · 31/05/2013 23:37

Lol, people who say bf a toddler is 'forcing' them Grin Really!!??? Can anybody really force a toddler to do any damn thing! Grin

Feenie · 31/05/2013 23:38

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SummerRainIsADistantMemory · 31/05/2013 23:39
Hmm

A child feeding to a natural healthy age that's well within the age range humans are designed to breastfeed for is repulsive to you?

But a baby drinking the milk of an animal as far removed from us physiologically as a cow or goat is perfectly normal?

Let me guess, your husband is one of those fine specimens who believes breasts are sexual accessories Biscuit

HoHoHoNoYouDont · 31/05/2013 23:41

Feenie moron? Explain.

Maryz · 31/05/2013 23:42

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stretch · 31/05/2013 23:45

Oh god Maryz! 'nawzyated' just made me spit my drink across the monitor! Grin

PostmanPatAlwaysRingsTwice · 31/05/2013 23:45

This is the OP gossiping about discussing the issue of breastfeeding an infant with her weak-stomached DH.

It's depressing but there are probably quite a lot of people as narrow minded and ignorant as this.

kohl · 31/05/2013 23:45

ROAR at 'dh wouldn't discuss it over lunch'. You guys sound like a RIOT.

I really hope this is a joke.

SummerRainIsADistantMemory · 31/05/2013 23:45

maryz.... Don't forget sikkened and dysterbed

HoHoHoNoYouDont · 31/05/2013 23:46

TSC why?

I'm being sarcastic to the OP's view of being too old to BF.

Jeez, some people.

Oh, and 'twat' yourself.

Feenie · 31/05/2013 23:46

Work it out for yourself, OhNoYouDon't.

Biscuit
usualsuspect · 31/05/2013 23:46

I'd cut your losses and delete the whole thread if I were you, MNHQ

Maryz · 31/05/2013 23:47

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zzzzz · 31/05/2013 23:48

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HoHoHoNoYouDont · 31/05/2013 23:48

Get a grip Feenie

What's your problem?

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