Oh no! I'm the last one breastfeeding.

[KD0706]

Just wanted to offload a bit.
I know I'm being daft but I feel really isolated. DD is just shy of a year old and five out of my six NCT antenatal frends started BFing. But gradually they've all stopped and now the last one has stopped.

I have never given DD a bottle and have a notion to keep breastfeeding her for a while yet, so that I won't have to faff with formula at all.

But a part of me feels a bit odd at being the last one left.

Good for you! We're still going at 9 months, though just down to one morning feed a day (+ the odd comfort feed here and there, esp as he's teething at the mo). I would dearly love to do more, but DS is so much interested in food, and now has a ff bottle after lunch and before bedtime.

Make the most of the closeness, it goes much, much too fast.

Well done for breastfeeding for so long :)

DD is only 8 months and even a close friend commented earlier that she was amazed I was still breastfeeding, incredulously. Not in a complimentary way either. I just retorted that she was 8 months old, not 8 years old...so what was there to be amazed about. She just 'd at me.

What you are saying is exactly how I felt - couldn't be bothered with the faff of bottles. I lasted til 20 months - I was way and above the longest feeder out of us 7 antenatalers. Don't be under pressure to give up - who cares what anyone else thinks! You don't need to tell them you're still feeding if you don't want to either.

good luck and keep going as long as you like. I'm pg with no2 and plan to do exactly the same.

Well I don't even have mother friends to hang around with. There is no reason to feel odd, and if you do, a small price to pay for having friends. We're mothers now, we always feel odd about something and I'm sure all of your NCT friends have their own issues as well.

Well done keeping going, the closeness is so special. Ds and I still going at 21 months, it's so useful for comfort or when they get ill.

I'm the last one too out of my group of friends and I feel quite proud that I'm still going. Dd was tongue tied so had a really hard time at the beginning and didn't know if we would manage it at all.

Last week there was a measles scare with a baby my dd had been in close contact with. Both a GP and a health visitor told me that since I still bf my baby was likely to be protected with my antibodies and if she did contract it, it would be much milder. Turned out to be a false alarm but it made be very relieved that I am still bf and really reconfirmed why I wanted to bf to begin with. Am definitely going to keep going at least until dd gets her MMR.

Well done you I say! :)

I'm still BF DS at 14 mo and don't know anyone in RL who fed that long. And like another poster, I don't even know any other mums in RL as there are no groups where I live.

MN keeps me going. I know that I am not weird or odd. Unusual maybe, but that's a bit sad really. My MIL seems to be the most supportive, and very impressed too, which helps.