Is there an 'extended' breastfeeding support thread?

[Unrulysun]

Or would I be better off on LLL?

Just read the 'school-age children' thread with interest but didn't want to derail :)

dd is 1 today so it's not 'extended' bf by any normal definition but judging by the number of 'Are you going to carry on breastfeeding her?' (yes because otherwise she'll be composed primarily of grapes) conversations I've had inflicted on me in the last week I think I'm going to need all the support I can get

so proud we made it this far - ha ha!

I'll join too :) DD is still BF at 3.5yrs and no sign of stopping any time soon - quite an achievement as she was 9 weeks early and took over 2 mths of pumping to actually establish BF

Love it 95% of the time - esp as she is now pretty much down to just 2 feeds - first thing and before bed - happy to let her self wean but would be happy for it to finish tomorrow!

not keen on nursing personally
definitely like natural term, or even just "breastfeeding" - it's the world who assumes the only children that can be breastfed are still learning to hold their own heads up

Like it - radical nursing.

This is like when I got called a lacto twat :)

We could always call it mi-mi ing, as my DCs do :o
In fact mi mi is the verb, the noun (the milk itself as well as my breasts) and also, as I discovered the other day, my bra too :o Think I need to start teaching the child some basic vocabulary :o

Lol @ 'booba'. DS's word for milk is 'nah-nah' but it has now extended to include anything he considers a treat: frozen yeovalley yoghurt tubes; a biscuit; 'slurpies' (Ella's kitchen fruit pouches) etc. He also does the pointing, grinning and nodding thing, which is exceptionally cute as he nods with his whole body but he also lifts my top and pulls my boob out.

Mornings are fraught as he protests loudly when I am getting dressed and imprisoning the boobs.

He loves sharing his food and in the last few days has taken to offering me my own nipple while feeding, which I politely decline. (I would never tell anyone else this as I can see it sounds a bit weird)

Lacto twat?!? Where did that come from?

I see your point Lenin... I certainly don't choose to continue

The DDs word for bfing/breasts is 'bah' though we have just worked out after 4 years why 'bah'. DH used to joke I was the 24 hour Milk Bar.....

It's also know as 'this one bah', 'dat bah', 'more bah' and my favourite, courtesy of DD1, 'Mumma Bah'. If DD3 is grumpy/upset in DD1's hearing you can guarantee she will tell me DD3 needs Mumma Bah to make her feel better. I think she is living vicariously through her sisters nursing

'Daddy Bah' is not a favourite though in this house as DD1 has been know to shout that and then latch on to DH causing much girly screaming from him!

MummyBerryJuice - DD1 once offered my friend a feed by gesticulating in much the manner of a vairh vairh posh waiter towards my breasts. It was nice she wanted to share though both my friend and I declined

Daddy Bah

What excellent manners our children have.

I use the term "nursing" in relation to ds1 as opposed to "breastfeeding" because although there is still nutritional value (there is y'know ) to the milk, it's not about the feeding any more. I don't like the term nursing, but I can't think of anything else.

DS1 is very articulate and over the years, it's been really interesting hearing some of the things he has to say about it all. In fact, only this morning, he said that when he has milk for a long time, it gets sweeter and sweeter until it makes his tongue go all itchy. Not quite sure what the itchy bit is though? But I presume he is talking about the hindmilk. We had custard for pudding tonight, and my milk reaches about the same sweetness as the custard.....

If he sees milk has leaked out on to my pyjamas in the morning, he says he wants that side because leaking means there's going to be fast milk. And the other day, ds2 was choking on snot (he's had a yukky cold) and when ds1 heard him choking, he was over like a shot asking for milk because apparently ds2 choking on it meant it was going really fast. He was most disappointed when I said it was snot related!!

He's got it all sussed

Pah, the "for the mother" thing is just too ridiculous for words.

DS1 foolishly mentioned that he might stop on his 5th birthday, so I basically forced him into it. It was ok for a while, but after 6 weeks, it was just a bloody nightmare in all sorts of ways. His behaviour was terrible and he was so sad and angry about it. So, I let him start again and instantly he was transformed back to his old self. I really didn't want to let him start again, but he definitely still needed it at that point. For the mother? FFS.

We have had a big breakthrough in the last couple of weeks. DS1 will now go to bed without me doing any of the bedtime routine. At times, he has wanted very little to do with DH which has been hard for us all, but now, dh can get him ready for bed and bore put him to sleep by reading about planes. No mention of me, or milk. I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from me after doing bedtime for 5.5yrs. For the mother? FFS

DS1 calls it milk btw. I just refer to it as nursing if posting on here, or talking about it.

Dd is 4.5 is still bfing. I was going to stop last month and discussed it with her, but it failed and so we are still going...never offer and never refuse.

I'm feeding DS2 who is 24 months. His big bro (now 12) self weaned at just over 3. I never planned any of this, it's just what happened. I love it.

Mawbroon that is fascinating and makes me even more determined to carry on for a long time as it's obviously so nice for them :)

'lacto twat' was a thread on AIBU (where else?) I was quite proud. Dd and I had a dreadful time at first and I got told to ff from about hour ten at the hospital so I felt like we'd really turned it around to become 'lacto twat'! She did apologise two posts later :)

I know what you mean re nursing. A lactation consultant once said to me (when I was in tears about dd's weight again)'You're not breastfeeding, the baby is breastfeeding' which really helped :)

so 'natural term nursing' then. Or 'getting mimis' or 'having bah' or 'boobies!'

Oooh, hello! I've been meaning to resurrect the old thread for ages because DS is 4.2 and still a total boobmonster. He's currently going through a patch of poor sleep and waking me up 3-4 times a night with calls for 'More mummy-mambo!', and I could do with some lovely stories of natural self-weaning to keep me sane.

He's never offered me to anyone else though, thank goodness! PMSL at TruthSweet's DD - fabulous image! :o

I want to join too. Bf at 22 months. I'm with Leningrad, I go with the path of least resistance. I'm co-sleeping too. I realised I was sounding embarrassed and apologetic about it, now I just say "oh we both love it". Fed up of people telling me surely I'd like my life back? Erm well this is my life! Which life do I want back?

But not, it's not "for me". I'm not some selfish cow keeping my son as close as possible. He feels comfort and love and it's no trouble. I never thought I'd bf for this long. DS1 was fed for 10 months by me.

I do keep it to the house though and never feed outside it. He doesn't ask and I'm not going to offer. I just want to wear a normal bra out! .