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.

posie i think as mothers have more than one child they are less likely to care about what they 'should' be doing and more likely to be in tune with what their child actually needs and what works for them

i think this would explain why mothers do often increase length of bfing with each successive child (not just their last child IME)

posie parker that is perhaps also so because breastfeeding can influence chances of conceiving another child? Which no longer matters with last child i assume.

Hmmm, well I don't find extended BF weird but I do have a bit of an issue with it.

I wasn't BF but my younger brother was until he was about 2.5. I was 5 at the time and one day he was having his 'Meeee' and bit down on my mum's nipple and wouldn't let go ! When my mum finally got him off blood was literally pumping out of her nipple and I was HORRIFIED!!! She weaned him quicksharp after that and I have been mentally scarred by my evil looking little brother with bloody teeth and my mum screaming with a bloody nipple .

So I will breastfeed til DC1 has teeth I think! Although I may feel different when I am actually breastfeeding (I am a week overdue... ) I may want to stop earlier or carry right on. I might even get over my 'teeth issue' [doubtful emoticon].

Lets hope your baby is not one born with teeth then . Ds was a biter I hated feeding him when he went through that period. DD has yet to show any sign of biting let us hope it stays. Your poor mum.

I bf ds for nearly 4 years. He called it milk, because that's what it is.

It really makes me have a wry chuckle when I hear "it's all about the mother". If he had been ready, I would quite happily have weaned him years before, but he wasn't, so I didn't.

OP you are entitled to your opinion, but imo YABU.

Sorry what is wrong with wanting to keep the toddler a baby for a bit longer ? Why the hurry to rush them through the stages, you see that a lot with first and only children, by the time people get to number two or three the penny has dropped that their babyhood flies by and before you know it they are at school, suddenly weaning, crawling and walking aren't so urgent.

Bloody hell, has the thread got this far without a single person saying 'bitty'(oh ho ho ho)? That's very unusual...

I must admit that I found bf at all a bit of an alien concept (to me) before I had DS1.

I'm still bf DS1 28 months on and also his 3 week old brother. If DS1 were to self wean now I wouldn't complain, but no signs of that. Don't really think I could be accused of 'doing it for myself'!

OP is entitled to feel how she does. I think wanting to skydive is really weird, but I have as little personal experience of that as OP has of extended bf. Each to their own I say!

Solo2, Just curious (an aside from the main convo sorry!)I have never seen twin being breast fed until that age... Was it really hard work or did you enjoy it? Also with twins breast feeding out of the house might have been harder?

I think this is a trol too. OP hasn't been seen since the original post and seems quite content to let us all argue amongst ourselves.

In fact, there seems to be lots of threads on MN started by trolls at the moment.

i am currently breastfeeding my 19month old. and her consultant has said to try and get to age 2 minimum. why? because dd4 is severely allergic to milk. she reactsw on contact. a tiny drop on her skin will cause a reaction.

so if anyone feels weird about that, then tough luck. i will breastfeed her for as long as she needs to. be that age 2, age 3 or age 4. hoping she outgrows her allergy at some point, but her next challenge wont be done till she is 2.5

Actually I think it is because they don't understand my nan is extreme anti bf. The other day she asked how i know when dd is hungry the 30mins later saw dd (10months) clawing at my top and actually smiled at the sight.

Can't be arsed to read the thread but you're obviously very insecure about your own decisions, if you feel the need to criticise the decisions on a subject you patently obviously know nothing about...

I am still bfing my nearly 1 year old and will stop when I feel it is right to do so, even at 2 years esp if she is still waking up at night. I will certainly not get into the habit of waking up to heat up a bottle in the middle of the night. I absolutely love breastfeeding and think yabu to judge. It is up to a mother to decide what is best for her child, not up to observers

HOly crap forget all i said earlier Leioniponi has put me right off.. (cuddling my boobies emoticon)

well you would fall away in a dead faint if you saw me feeding gecko

she is 3 years 4 months and its suits us just fine thanks

I think people in this country just cannot separate breasts and sex. They just can't. Therefore if they see a baby/toddler at the breast they automatically see a sexual connotation.

When in fact my breasts are my breasts and belong completely to me, neither to my husband nor my babies and are dual purpose so I can use them as I like.

Still haven't heard why cow's milk is OK for a 2 year old but human milk isn't? And why the fuck would you go to all the trouble of expressing and carrying it around when you have two perfect delivery systems right there? To please someone who has sexual hang ups? I don't think so.

OP can think its weird and I can think OP is a freak for thinking it is weird.

No, I really don't find extended breastfeeding odd.

Though, after a certain age, there really is no need to breastfeed in public except in exceptional circumstances.

stealth the emphasis was on need. I was trying to make the point that there is a big difference between need and want.....A 2yo doesn't need bm but if he wants it fair enough. In the same way I don't need wine but I want it and no way is water a viable substitute. Especially after the day I've had.

Just asked my DD1 who last BF on Tuesday, she says "it is tastes nice, it's yummy in my tummy, it's nice and warm."

She is 5.7

Years

Leoni and sanielle, don't worry about it too much - firstly they hardly ever bite (and if they do they only do it once!) and secondly it's rare for them to bite hard enough to draw blood.

And it hurts badly enough if they bite before they get teeth anyway!

"Though, after a certain age, there really is no need to breastfeed in public except in exceptional circumstances"

you see, I think my child wanting some milk constitutes a good enough "need" to breastfeed in public

what on earth reason is there NOT to bf in public? because some ignorant people think i shouldn't?

Charley mouse I am in awe Ds self weaned at 2.9.

Bonsoir could think 15 is too old to do it in public.. She didn't say how old was too old.