To think BF-ing a 2yr old is, um, weird?

[Lucy85]

Well what do you think? I know it's a very emotive subject, but I've seen it a couple of times and it makes me come over all strange.
I BFed my baby exclusively until 7 months when I went back to work, but the thought of doing it now is just plain odd, - not wrong, it's just I can't imagine doing it to someone who can walk, talk, get their own drinks, eats proper food and is too big to lie sideways on my lap.

YABVU it is because of people like you I started hiding the fact I bf a 2yo ds.

'imo, yanbu! after about 12 months to a year, if I see extended breastfeeding, child with shoes I think, oh fgs!'

'TBH when I hear of toddlers being bf I wonder whose needs are being met exactly. A 2yo doesn't need bm in the same way that I don't need a nice glass of wine of an evening. Each to their own though.'

I notice neither of you have complained about the use of dummies or bottles in older children.

...and as for the "whose needs are being met" brigade - unless the mother is forcing her breast into the child's clenched mouth, I can say with absolute certainty that it is the CHILDS needs being met!

Well that argument works the other way BertieBotts, my toddlers would never have turned down a biscuit. But I knew that they should stop after one.

Totally entitled to her opinion. If it's not something you've done then fair enough you can't really imagine doing it but to say it's 'wierd' is a bit judgemental.

I also think it's a myth that it's not about the toddler's needs, diamondsandtiaras. I would have happily stopped bf DS from around 12mo but carried on until 21mo. He would have loved to carry on but we stopped because I was pregnant and too knackered to continue. He still asks for a feed 3 months later.

Just because it wasn't your choice doesn't make it wrong. Don't know why you'd bother having an opinion tbh.

A 'hard habit'?

Some women get genned up on the subject, and others, like you, don't know anything about it.

YANBU...so there! Some mothers can't 'let go'. And OMG the aggression here...why so angry? If you're happy in your choices, why would you be so angry and defensive?

YABU

Plus, it's none of your damned business anyway.

And fyi, the WHO recommends bf til the age of at least 2.

It's not weird, OP. What I find weird is that people think that giving an infant reconstituted powdered milk from a completely different species is more normal.

Maybe the responses are a tad pissed off because, if you do BF your toddler, many, many people will have commented on it in a negative way? So there's a bit of a raw nerve there...?

I think you're weird OP to care about how long others breastfeed their babies. Read the science on the subject. Avoiding obesity and gastroenteritis is not at all weird.

You however, are.

Start thinking about other things.

whoaaaaaa!!!!! I am also surprised (well actually I'm not suprised!) by the agressive feedback she got

so shoot me, I am in the toddler BF is a tad icky camp.

Mainly cos I suspect its more down to the mothers wishes, than the toddlers.

Magalyxyz, why on earth does it give you the shivers that some people find breastfeeding so interesting that they want to study it and read books on it and inform other women about it etc? What about people who are interested at a similar level about e.g. childbirth, is that creepy too?

(Not meaning to be attacking, I am just curious... I don't understand this point of view at all.)

"If you're happy in your choices, why would you be so angry and defensive?"

Don't you ever get defensive when people question your/your child's choices?

Someone did put fuck of (more than that in fact). Read the first few posts.

That's why I said earlier it was unfair for the OP to be told to fuck off and I didn't see the point in another poster asking her why she posted this topic.

I didn't say that others don't have the right to their opinion (in fact I said quite the opposite).

But the OP should not have been told to fuck off and she IS entitled to her opinion (which wasn't radical IMO) and the right to post it.

slushy I wasn't aware the thread was about dummies or bottles...........I don't use either but don't have a problem with anyone who does. Neither do I have a problem with anyone breast feeding a 2yo. I just wouldn't do it myself.

Indeed the WHO state that breastfeeding should continue until at least 2 years of age.

So yes OP, YABU.

I didn't realise a was aggressive.

Arghhh.....I am getting drawn in

That's funny porcamiseria, as my toddler has just come up demanding 'boobie' and lifting my top up. I must have fucking mind control or something eh?

If you find breastfeeding toddlers "icky" then that says an awful lot more about you than the mothers who are doing their absolute nutritional best by their babies.

I think the op got an aggressive response because mn doesn't tolerate ignorance gladly.

YABU. No-one says you have to but people who do it aren't weird, they are following international guidelines.

Here is a link to WHO breastfeeding guidelines and, for what it is worth, I breastfed my DD until she was 27mth.

To suggest that what I did was odd, or all about me deserves a first ever from me. Just because extended breastfeeding wasn't for you does not give someone the right to say it is either odd or selfish!

What I find weird is that people think that giving an infant reconstituted powdered milk from a completely different species is more normal."

Just had to comment on this, if you BF for a year they can go straighjt onto cows milk. organic too!

ALSO
"Avoiding obesity and gastroenteritis is not at all weird."

sorry how does that compute with BF a toddler???? dont get it, WHO advises 6 months