Mum asked to stop breastfeeding a TWO YEAR OLD in shoe shop.

[GinaDavva]

Mixed feelings with this one. Shaming a mother publicly breastfeeding a small baby is never acceptable but breastfeeding a two year old child in a shop? Surely at that age a bottle is more convenient in the middle of a shop? My first thought was that this was more about attention than the actual principle of the matter. After breastfeeding 3 of my own I can honestly say there has never been a time where it felt necessary to start breastfeeding any of mine in the middle of a shop at two years old. Frankly at that age they wouldn’t find much in mine anyway!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3z31jn7v1o

It’s true, my previously breastfed two year old has never had a twix which is surely essential for his nutrition.

I think it’s odd she went to the papers

and I think it’s odd that her 2 yo suddenly became ‘hungry and unsettled’ - that sounds more like a 2 month old

When they are walking and talking, have all their teeth, are eating solid food and asking for “bitty” then it’s absolutely time to stop.

When a child is that age they may have a bottle at night time - but they get their nutrients from food.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FmD2Y6WxpIw&t=2s&pp=ygUUYml0dHkgbGl0dGxlIGJyaXRhaW4%3D

Are we really comparing sentient human mothers breastfeeding to animals now. Apes (if you want to pick the most closest to humans in terms of cognitive ability) will breastfeed anywhere they feel safe often in public as they're moving around. So this is a (quite offensive) non argument.

At 2 years they should be able to drink from a feeder cup

Says who? None of the medical professionals. Not the PHA or WHO. So what exactly is it that qualifies YOU more than those people to make that statement?

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When I was a kid my mum gave me a Greggs sausage roll to eat in a shoe shop and I got all the flakes everywhere so the owner had to get the hoover out and hoover up all my crumbs 🤣
My DM was certainly feeding her child in a more unreasonable manner than the lady in the article!

Eh? What does this mean? Have I missed something?

"small child crying, disrupting the shop and being distressed when it can quickly and easily be soothed" ......because a child at 2 should be being supported to learn how to self soothe...we don't live in a society any more where we are with our young children 24/7 - mothers work, children go to nursery and then school, mothers have younger babies and other responsilities. At some point, that child has to learn that a. their demands aren't always able to be met straight away b. that their mothers breast is not the only source of comfort. We have an issue with dental caries in older BF children who co sleep and continue to nurse in the night because their mums dont understand that after a certain age , teeth need to be brushed after feeding! By all means do extended BF but ultimately dont treat a 2 year old as if they are a baby, they are a growing child with all of the emotional and behavioural development that involves and mums need to understand that.

I breastfed both of my children until they were 3. By the age of 2, I wouldn’t have done it in a shop, partly because I would have been worried about some ignorant arsehole making a big deal out of it and partly because, by then, my children were too busy and distracted to worry about breastfeeding when we were out and about. BUT I fully support the right of other women to breastfeed their babies and toddlers wherever the hell they like. Some children are overwhelmed when out of the house and breastfeeding is their source of comfort. A child might be feeling a bit unwell or have various other needs. Who gets to set some arbitrary limit on what age of child a woman can breastfeed in public? People need to get over their ridiculous repressed attitude about women’s breasts doing what nature intends them to do. Look away if you don’t like it.

The reference providided is you tube, I haven’t clicked it but probably that shows the level of evidence that went into forming this opinion

opinions are fine but I hate seeing them presented as fact when the evidence is to the contrary

This depends on the child. An autistic child may well not have been diagnosed at age 2 but would not be able to wait in the way another 2 year old might.

Oh no. A faceless stranger who doesn't know me thinks I'm a bad person. How will I rest.

Liar. You don't believe anyone on this thread is struggling with their sanity. You just want to be insulting because you have nothing reasonable to say, no way to justify your position. It would be better not to post at all than to stoop to that level, honestly. But you go ahead and show everyone where you stand, I welcome it!

"At some point". It's actually not a point though, it's an ongoing process all through childhood. Or have you done a study and determined the optimum time for this apparent sudden overnight development?

Lol OK.

If walking, talking, eating solid food and asking for it makes them too old for breastfeeding then why aren't they also too old for a bottle?

Whales and dolphins are mammals and breastfeed in the sea, surely your cats and dogs should have the decency to do this?

Now we've had:

• breastfeeding in public is the same as taking a shit in public
• don't breastfeed in a shoe shop because my nursing cat can't do it in a shoe shop
• no need to breastfeed a toddler, it should be able to buy itself a twix
• don't breastfeed a toddler because we don't breastfeed teenagers
• breastfeeding is a paedophile fetish
• and this would all be sorted if we brought back mother and baby homes.

Cool. Great debate.

Nestle is laughing all the way to the bank.

Obviously exceptions will apply.

The mother acted like her 2 year old is a newborn and was so hungry and just couldn't wait. Most of the time, that simply isn't true.

I can't even get triggered by silly people like OP any more 🤣 Oh my God, a 2 year old being breastfed?? In public???? OP, maybe you should consider carrying smelling salts when you leave the house, just in case. Can't be too careful nowadays.

Amazing how many women on this thread breastfed their own children, to 6 months, always in the privacy of their home, and are so disgusted at women who breastfeed a child over 6 months and/or breast feed in public.

I breastfed mine till they turned 3, and I found the only people who were judgemental about it were women who had never breast fed.

Not one formula feeder on the thread so far, weird!

They probably can. What's that got to do with the price of fish?