To ask for your thoughts on extended breastfeeding?

[awmamma]

Catching up on Teen Mom UK and watching the bit about Charlie telling Shannon it was weird to still be breastfeeding her 2.5 year old.

Is it really that weird?

definitely not wierd. Unusual...but not wierd.

I BFed till 3 yo and only stopped then due to a medication conflict.

almostalwyn
Thank you. I do feel proud as well as sad. It may be a nursing strike but it’s been over a week now so I’m assuming this is the end

All this talk of saggy breasts - who the fuck cares?? Seriously, does society still expect my 35 year old post baby body to look exactly the same as it did 10 years ago?? I could not care one little bit if it was breastfeeding or pregnancy that affected the shape of my breasts. I am happier with them now, having used them for their actual purpose, than I ever was before I had a child. Negatively commenting on a post baby body - especially one that has been used to nurture said baby - is beyond the fucking pale.

That last part was aimed at tabbymumz and your pathetically stupid contribution to the thread.

Whilst the comments about saggy boobs are puerile in the extreme, I confess I had a bit of a giggle at the mental image of a baby or toddler hanging off a boob like a pendulum! My son is 13kg; that would be very painful...

It's almost as if some people think the primary function of breasts is to look good rather than for, you know, producing milk.

I feel pity for women who think about saggy tits in relation to breastfeeding. They're going to find getting older very difficult or find cosmetic surgery very expensive.

DickKerr exactly!!
I visited a little farm with the DCs a few weeks ago, and they had lots of milking goats. Now those ladies took “saggy boobs” to the extreme!! They had enormous udders that looked way too big in comparison to the rest of the animal, and they were practically dragging on the ground. But then along skips two baby goats, who had their feed and went off on their way. Pretty sure Mummy Goat doesn’t give a fuck if Daddy Goat finds her udders attractive

Negatively commenting on a post baby body - especially one that has been used to nurture said baby - is beyond the fucking pale.

Totally agree. Absolutely dickish behaviour.

In any case, my boobs got perter after bfing. So not necessarily even true.

ThePolishWombat

Tabbydo you have kids?
Because the astounding lack of awareness of the female anatomy and how it works suggests otherwise

Really, why? Boobs sag after long term breastfeeding. That's quite common. Do you not know that?

@TabbyMumz - I've tried to be polite and explain clearly, but it seems you have another agenda. I don't know what you think is happening here, but you're coming across as rather strange.

Tabby Are you just being deliberately obtuse?

PREGNANCY is what causes the most changes to breasts. Women who’ve been pregnant but never breastfed in their life will still show the same “sagging” as someone who has breastfed.
It’s fluctuation in weight, causing skin to stretch that is to blame for sagging.
How much suction do you think a toddler is capable of in order to make boobs sag?!

My comment wasn't the spaniel ears one by the way, that was someone else. The person who said spaniel ears seems to have got away scott free!!!! My comment was regarding the person who said pregnancy affects boobs, not breastfeeding. Boobs are affected by breastfeeding.

@NottonightJosepheen....perhaps you were lucky.......in the main, they are.

My comment was regarding the person who said pregnancy affects boobs, not breastfeeding. Boobs are affected by breastfeeding

And a number of posters have explained why you’re quite wrong.

Have you done any reading since your last incorrect statement?!

What kind of person would come on a parenting website to repeatedly tell mothers that they’ll have saggy boobs after bfing?

I have a range of words in my head, but I suspect they’d only be deleted, so tabby will have to use her imagination.

But dear god, do people not think for five seconds how they come across? The internet is a terrible place sometimes.

"Women who’ve been pregnant but never breastfed in their life will still show the same “sagging” as someone who has breastfed."
Not true in my belief. A friend of mine used to have double d bra size. After breastfeeding, they were like long sausages down to her waist.

"But dear god, do people not think for five seconds how they come across? The internet is a terrible place sometimes".....yes it is. One person makes a simple comment and the pushback is amazing. How come noones said anything to the person who said boobs would be like spaniel ears!!???

"And a number of posters have explained why you’re quite wrong."
That doesn't make them right though does it. I still believe it's not just pregnancy. Breastfeeding does affect boobs.

Not true in my belief

...we don't really need your "belief" based on one anecdote of one friend who breastfed. We have actual large-scale research. Which shows the changes are overwhelmingly driven by pregnancy (and plain old ageing) and not BF. And women with larger breasts are going to experience more age-related sagging anyway.

MRex

@TabbyMumz- I've tried to be polite and explain clearly, but it seems you have another agenda. I don't know what you think is happening here, but you're coming across as rather strange.

Ere no I'm not. Yes you have put your comment up saying you think it's genetic. I do think that may also contribute. But do you believe that because you have commented that's the end of the discussion and I should stop replying to people? To me, if you do, that's rather strange. Its a thread...we can all contribute.

Not true in my belief. A friend of mine used to have double d bra size. After breastfeeding, they were like long sausages down to her waist

Are you so thick you’re confusing a pretend anecdote with empirical evidence?

I mean, I know it’s fashionable to wear ignorance as a badge of honour, but I’d be embarrassed to be displaying such bathshit levels of stupidity.

Look, I appreciate you appear the IQ of a wet quilt

In the nicest possible way, I think you're being very charitable the wet quilt here.

TO the wet quilt.

One person makes a simple comment and the pushback is amazing. How come noones said anything to the person who said boobs would be like spaniel ears!!???

That person is engaging in totally dickish behaviour too Tabby

Happy?

You make ignorant and offensive comments and ppl will call you on it.

Honestly, why would you do it?

I think breastfeeding did make my breasts saggy. Also though it may be unpopular I find the idea of BF any child over two a bit weird tbh