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?

"I Find these women who go on and on about breastfeeding being superior to ff obsessive, utterly joyless and dull"

I think anyone who goes on and on about anything is quite dull. But if there is a conversation about breastfeeding then the simple, scientifically proven response is that it is a better food for babies than formula. It's not really a response that is meant to incite joy. What a very weird conclusion to make about women by Curry.

"I also find women who breasteed their children for an extended period of time seriously weird.
It is obviously about their emotional needs, and nothing whatsoever to do with the childs"

And I think this is an especially moronic comment especially due to the fact that breastfeeding has been proved to be beneficial for children's health by hundreds of scientific studies. Curry demonstrating more ignorance yet again.

I'd say there's much more of a formula mafia around actually, given the way formula totally dominates the way we feed our babies now and that rules are constantly broken over marketing such feed.

Those who want to encourage bfing have to really shout to make their voices heard above the din of the formula manufacturers and sub intelligent opinions as espoused in the examples above. Can I suggest you educate yourself a bit better, Curry before opening your mouth and talking sh*te?

Grim/Rainbow - I applaud your efforts. When I read tripe like that I move on for fear of banging my head against a brick wall.

Iva - Oh ok, my apologies.

There was a time I would have written a lot more and engaged in a heated discussion with such posters but experience has taught me that people with such views don't tend to change. THey are what they are with no inclination to better themselves.