to wonder why it seems people get increasingly negative about breastfeeding the older baby gets....

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My ds2 is 9 mths, admittedly he is a very big baby and often mistaken for 1yr to 18mths. I bf on demand and have always happily, discreetly fed in public. Whereas when he was little I.e. under 6 mths I only ever got really positive comments and vibes for bf in public, now he is getting older I'm increasingly noticing negative looks and had the odd comment more than once. Today I took my ds1 and ds2 to a childrens farm, ds2 wanted a feed so I went to feed him and heard two mothers giggling and saying 'bitty, bitty'. And a week or so back another lady stopped in the country park I was in and told me ds2 was far to old for breast milk and it was fine for little babies to be bf in public but my baby was old enough to learn to wait.
Have i just had a couple of bad run ins or have others noticed bf reactions change as babies get older?

So lovely to see the lovely breastfeeding pictures, there is such a look of contentment on the babies/children's faces :)

What's your point blahblah? So her picture has been used, so what? I bet daleybump is chuffed! I would be!

Maybe you should be having a rant at MNHQ for sharing it to people who might not want to see it.. you know, incase they have lifetime damage from seeing a breastfeeding child.

I actually think the picture is lovely, so wind ya neck in ffs!

I was just making people aware that I received that picture via email in a mumsnet update and to be aware that pics uploaded belong to mumsnet once done so, and legally they can do what they like with them. Not everyone would know that or be comfortable with that!

Its a public forum. Anyone, anywhere can see what ignorant tripe you post. Email round up or not.

YABU. You're supposed to be preserving your breasts for your man now and not bothering with this breastfeeding lark, its just not sexy.

Really tho.. Ignore the imbeciles.

They can use my picture however they like, I'm not ashamed of it. I didn't get the email, if I pm someone on email address would someone mind forwarding it to me
please?

Excuse typos, phone is acting up.

The 13 month old, he loves boob and food, probably boob more though

My point was that emails go to all Mumsnet members, whether they are active or not, and that evolves to masses i would imagine. I was simply informing you it was used, wish i wouldn't have bothered now seeing as you are all just being rude for no reason! I just thought you would like to know

And because i think BF is only necessary til 6 months DOES NOT give you the right to be rude, nasty and generally vile! The OP asked for opinions, and i gave mine.

blah you can have an opinion on why the sky is blue...but if it doesn't match the scientifically known reason then people are going to think you are ignorant. Especially if you keep banging on about your opinion AFTER someone has pointed out the truth to you.

you can have an opinion on whether or not BF is necessary either before or after 6 months. But the scientifically know facts of the matter are that it is not necessary before 6 months (we have formula after all and FF babies survive) and that there is a sliding scale of how significant the difference is between human milk and cow milk to children that starts highest for prem babies and decreases smoothly as the child gets older but NEVER disappears entirely.

If you continue to believe that BF is necessary before 6 months and suddenly becomes unncessary after 6 months in the face of the truth then people are certainly going to think you are ignorant and possibly deluded to boot.

My oldest was BF until he was 4. Although after about age 2 it was only in bed/night time.
My twins were BF until they were about 20 months.

Continuing BF is more common than people think but because mostly we do it in private people don't realise.
Be proud you are doing the best for you and your child.

I do wish someone would tell ds4 its not necessary anymore. Id be quite happy to stop now.

However i know he would be incredably upset and i dont want that, in the same way ds1&2 had dummys at night until 3 and i didnt take ds3s night bottle away until the week before he turned 3.

Yes bf has lots of benifits however long ypu do it for but for me its because i know how upsetting it will be for him.

Saying that i dont know anyone in rl who has bf as long as me and its not because they dont want to admit it. I know less than 10 people who have bf, even one friend who is very pro bf and very anti not even trying to do it admitted the other day that she only did it for 6 months and believes you should not do it any longer than 18

Me either Suffolk. I think blahblah was trying to teach me a lesson maybe?

It's weird
My gran asked me when I was going pack that up!
As if it was some sort of dirty habit like smoking when dd was 9 months

to survive parenthood you need a hide of a rhino.

once developed its great fun.

Suffolk my fil has also said some very positive things re bf - they surprise you sometimes, I'd assumed he was a bit meh about it. My doctor recently asked me if I was still feeding not-quite-two year old, and then "oh but is that just at night" to which I said no. He then asked was this in addition to a normal diet - well firstly bm is part of a normal diet if you're one, and secondly yes of course it's "in addition" I'm not putting him on a liquid diet, he eats like a horse! Wouldn't it be nice if a GP could say oh great, you're in line with WHO requirements or something like that, instead of making me feel a bit odd?

Although I totally disagree with pretty much everything blah has said on BFing, I think you're being unfair to her about the email.

It's a data protection issue. Personally I wasn't at all aware that mumsnet would be own our pictures of be reusing them in this way, I'm glad I know now, I may think twice about what I post here.

Thanks for the heads up on that, blah.

(but please, listen to the others on BFing!)

wiggly daleys pic is not in an email that mmet have sent out, but yes of course thye can reuse a picture if you post it on here, just like thye can anyhtung you write, its made clear in the terms amd conditions.

Mnethq can you clarify if daleys pic has been used in an email as if so I havet got it and I have hd an email today, and I grt all the usual ones.

I asked in site stuff out of curiosity. I wouldn't have shared it if I was worried about people seeing it [ hmm]

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I have reported my post so they see it :)

I jist notice din another thread someone memtiins a blog post on mnet thta has a baby bfeeding? Maybe its that blah means? I havent seen it tho.

I saw the blog post photo, but it's not the same photo Daleybump posted on this thread.

I would be nothing but proud if my photo was used by mnhq, posting a photo on a forum obviously makes it public to a large amount of people, some people don't want to be so public, some people don't mind, I think it's sensible to assume adults have considered the privacy issues before sharing images.