to think that breastfeeding a 25 year old, even as a one off, is more than a little strange?

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Article here about when breastfeeding should stop and the author quoted two examples of 25 year old women bfing as a one off after a bereavement.

'two 25-year-old women who had suffered bereavement and went to their respective mothers for ?one-off comfort?.
"It probably started with a cuddle and led from there," she tells me'

Now I am very pro breastfeeding but I found this very strange/unusual. I just can't imagine a situation where I, as a woman in my 20s, would breastfeed from my mother but then part of me thinks if they've just suffered a big loss, who am I to think this way of coping is wrong?

So, less of an AIBU but more of a what do you all think?

Think this is a wind up but,-
Anybody who breastfeeds their child after a year is seriously strange.
Much more to do with the needs of the mother than the child.
I have read about 4 year olds being breastfed,
I think social services should come a knocking if a child is being breastfed at that age...

25! how odd ..

I think you're the wind-up curryfreak.

aww curry freak always nice to see a balanced view from you!

curryfreak

Yes, yes, I'm the one who is winding people up.

i guess it's all down to the kind of relationship you have with your mother. i read it too and can't honestly say i can ever see that happening here!
i remember asking my mum if i could breastfeed when i was about 4 and she was horrified! lol (and she BF me til i was about 2)

Breastfeeding at 25 is very odd

Personally, I feel strange about a walking, talking child breastfeeding (Before I get flamed, I'm not saying I think it's wrong for other people, its just how I feel) Therefore, the notion of BF a human being who can legally get plastered, vote, get married, reproduce themselves, and drive, is just If I'm upset, I go to my mum for a cuddle. She wouldn't whack her baps out.

Hmmm, but the article says the interviewee has "heard of" all sounds a bit urban myth to me

"It probably started off as a cuddle" is geusswork

I know a 46 year old ho likes to chomp on the boob

'tis nothing to do with feeding though...

lolol "It started off as a cuddle ... and then mummy got her boob out"

Bollocks

I can imagine breastfeeding a traumatised lover though

If I'm upset, I go to my mum for a cuddle. She wouldn't whack her baps out.

ridiculous....dont believe a word of it, bit shocked that you possibly believe such nonsence,....unless they are inbred?

I saw this article too. Can't imagine it myself...
So, how old is too old, then?

random story with no real insights and propagating unbelievable urban myths. LOL at the idea sex stops during BFing. ("she owes me good sex after this.")

i thought this was a fairly positive piece for a dm type organ.

although it did have the obligatory 'bitty' mention. the 25yo thing sounds highly unlikely but so what if it is true.

oh sorry I realised this is quoting Sinnot who I like

well it's possible

What has being inbred got to do with it?

I doubt the 25year olds are going to be volunteering for interviews and pics of the experience though... Sinnott is well respected in her field I believe and I can't think why she would make up something like this.

It hardly helps her cause to normalise extended feeding?

No idea if it's true or not but I think it's a shame if it detracts from an otherwise good article.

i don't care who drinks whose milk when and where and how. anyone who thinks yuck or eeuw has issues.

We could always ask Ann

anyone who thinks yuck or eeuw has issues.

well it's hard not to put oneself in that position

so that's okay to think EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW