My blood is boiling at this thread

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You suggest the milk from anothe species would be more appropriate than the milk from our own. How so?

Oh I get it...cows milk. Do cows take their calves to weddings/social functions to feed them?
Can cows go to the supermarket and purchase human milk? Mmm...

You suggest the milk from anothe species would be more appropriate than the milk from our own. How so?

eh? Sorry, I don't understand. Of course they don't; they're cows.

What about the guests at this wedding?

chegirl,
I like the cut of your gib!

Ah but do you like the cut of my velour trackies sabire ?

at your nice comment.

I don't have breast milk in my diet as I have established a full and varied diet. So has your avaerage 3 yr old living in the western world.
Why do they need boob milk?

They dont "need" it to survive at 3. But that doesnt mean they cant have it. I dont need chocolate....

"boob milk" - yuck.

What's wrong with "boob milk"?

Sorry, am going to be shot down in flames for this but so be it.
I think extended BOOB feeding (and by that I mean beyond about 18 months) says more about the needs of the mother and not the child.

How many women do you actually know who naturally termed fed? Or are you basing your opinion on ignorance?

no one will shoot you down
it's a very common misconception

DOes breastmilk turn to boobmilk after 18 months?

True, Stealthpolarbear. I used to think the same of dh and his dm!

No, boob milk is boob milk right from the start. I never refer to my t*ts/boobs as breasts...it seems way too stuffy and clinical.
And I am pro-boob feeding..very much so..just I'd prefer it to apply to infants and not big, stapping children.

fair enough - personal choice

I never call mine "tits".

I say in my experience of having fed two children past your chosen cut off age of 18 months that it is not about the needs of the mother. I couldnt wait to stop breastfeeding and was very happy when I stopped feeding them. I know lots of people who didnt practise curtailed breastfeeding and none of them did it for their own needs.

Well there you go hercules...we're all different. You are no more superior to me because you refer to your secondary sexual organs as breasts and I call them boobs/baps/tits.

I'd beg to differ on that! but I cant win that particular argument!

"baps" NEver, never, never.

what is natural term fed please?

Oh God they're only tits! What is the big deal? What do you call a penis? Mmm..let me guess...a penis?
{hmmm}

"extended" implies you are prolonging something that should naturally have stopped before then. BReastfeeding till 4 is natural and compared to other mammals we would naturally breastfeed up to anywhere between (not sure if remember figures right) 4-5ish.
If you stop ie make your child stop early then you are actually curtailing ie cutting short their natural term breastfeeding.

I did actually cut short mine too as both would have carried on for longer had they the choice.

The WHO recommend breastfeeding to 2 and beyond.