I got my first 'oh are you still feeding him?' comment today!

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I was quite excited. Lady looked quite taken aback. DS is not quite 6 months!

Still waiting for mine at just shy of 8 months. I'm jealous now

with DD1 I got it at 6 weeks from the Irish landlady of our local!

Just get your instant response ready:

"yes. Now fuck off there's a dear"

Mother-in-law asked the same thing when DS1 was 3 months. She was outraged that all he was having was breastmilk.

I breastfed DS1 until 7 months when he weaned himself and I'm still breastfeeding DS2 who has just reached 7 months.

I got mine when DS was 4 months old. 'OH MY GOD WOMAN GET HIM ON A BOTTLE!' from a childless friend

they'd be complaining if you stopped feeding him!

I got that implied from the student paediatric nurse at my ds' nine month check up. OK, not as bad as all the above, but she was a student nurse .

I'm still waiting for mine at 11 months!

I never got/get so much as a feeding in public, let alone a (or even a )

Although my mum and nan have started with the oh so passive agressive "you've done So Well to get This Far"...

It was followed by a 'you've done well to get this far'. Yay, I got a full house on the breastfeeding bingo.

well it's true, you have done well to get this far being as only a few percent of babies are still breastfed at 6 months.

what's wrong with that?

i can't help but feel so happy that my dd is almost a year and i'm still bf her. woohoo!! After a disastrous attempt with ds1 and giving up by day 10 i'm thrilled to have got this far.

I'm still feeding my DS at 1 year... I'm slightly embarassed about it (I know I shouldn't be, but I am). I've lied to my MIL (who has a problem with breastfeeding) and told her that I've stopped. As I only feed morning and night now, what she doesn't see or know, she can't whinge about.

Our DC stopped themselves just after 13/15 months. Like Guacamole it was just morning and night for the latter months. It is soon (they grow quickly) over enjoy the closeness while it lasts and ignore negative comments. IMO breastfeeding is best you will see over the forthcoming months.

It's not wrong per se but really, I did well to make it to 3 weeks. It was awful to start with. Once I'd got over the first 5 weeks, it was a doddle. So it didn't feel like I'd done well to get further, actually I'm taking the path of least resistance to keep going as long as DD wants.

Guac, don't worry, I don't tell most people I'm planning to carry on bfing. They all assumed we would stop at 6 months, and I think they're quietly assuming the same about 1 year. We'll see how they all take it in a few months

That first bit was to yesterday btw. Few x posts thrown in there.

I got my first comment at 10mnths when 2 'friends' screeched bitty at me when I mentioned I was 'still' bfing. That was pretty horrible. They have no idea how long I ended up bfing for.

I BF my DD till she was 2yrs 5mnths. Stopped 3 days ago. Really disliked it towards the end (well I hope its the end) but was reliant on it to get her to sleep at night and when she woke at 5am in the morning.

On top of that I was tandem feeding as I have a 18wk DS (who thankfully isn't fed to sleep and is self settling). I intend to wean him fully by the time he's 1yr.

I got lots of support at first, but if you're still feeding past 1, some people get a bit strange! I mentioned it to my elderly (and pro breast feeding granny) and she looked a bit shocked, I hushed up keeping going for another year and a half...

Yes, some people do get funny. I've not had many comments (apart from a couple from my parents) but I find it helps to be assertive. Someone was telling me once that my DS feeding to sleep was a Bad Thing, so I said, "Oh, I love feeding to sleep - it stopped working for naps at 8 months and I was gutted." That soon stopped the comments.

I'm cross with my mother at the moment. She has the audacity to tell me off for feeding in public and tells me that I should cover up. Grrrr, the things I would like to say to her....

DD2 had her last BF at close on 10 years old and I have friends whose DC feed till 5+.
The last time I remember feeding her properly in public she was about 14 months and I often feed her during swimming lessons up to that sort of age. No one ever said anything, probably very few people noticed, she did have it to a fine art My parents and sister wouldn't comment, my Mum would have stood no interference from my Grandparents
I'd have happily carried on feeding her in public, but she simply got too tall, I had either to lie in bed, her fav for mornings. Or across my lap, like a little baby, but with her legs resting on the sofa. Therefore the one person who might have got put out was DH, who got a less comfortable seat. DD1 didn't mind me feeding DD2 because I'd either do it watching telly with her or she'd hand me a book to read, either was better than Mum vanishing into the kitchen!

i had my first 'are you still feeding him?' comment two weeks ago. ds is four months. it was from a male, childless friend and the exact wording was 'are you still milking?'

it was so outrageous i just laughed

Oooo they are gonna get a shock in the UK when I come back from NZ with my 10 month old, happily BFing and with no intention of stopping before 2 if I can help it. Where we are in NZ has the distinction of being both most economically most deprived and has highest BFing rates at 6 weeks and 6 months. Anyone negatively commenting on BFing in our small hick town would get the evil stares from a whole pile of random strangers. Male cafe owners have said "anyone objects send them to ME, grrr".

Startail - 10 years old Why?

I always feel a bit uncomfortable when people say "you've done so well to get this far"

Maybe I feel like a bit of a fraud because it hasn't been a struggle. It's certainly easier than making formula.

Athrawes - where abouts are you? Whangarei?