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Infant feeding

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Extended breastfeeding - over two year old. Anyone?

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wangle99 · 24/02/2006 21:44

Feeling really alone at the mo, anyone else feeding an over two-year old? DS is 28 months and still boob-obsessed which is fine in my opinion (for us).

Went to an 'extended breastfeeders' group today and it was for babies over 6 months! Not my idea of extended lol

And if there is anyone out there does your LO do anything erm bizarre with your boobs whilst feeding? DS has taken to feeding off one and sticking the other in his ear oh god I can't believe I admitted that!

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Adorabelle · 03/04/2006 18:37

LOL at least your dd's got spirit!!!

buffythenappyslayer · 03/04/2006 18:37

do you express?i never seem to get enough for her so have given up on it!

Adorabelle · 03/04/2006 18:39

dd also likes to twiddle my other nipple while feeding, have to hold her hand as it just feels too wierd to have her feeding &playing with my nipple!

Adorabelle · 03/04/2006 18:41

she would never take a bottle so have never expressed. Tried to bout 5 months ago to see it she would have my milk in a cup only got 2ounces in 40 minutes

Adorabelle · 03/04/2006 18:43

Had to give her cup feeds when she was newborn as she couldn't latch on, used electric pump &was very good

buffythenappyslayer · 03/04/2006 18:51

i bought one of them adiri breast bottles.thinking she might have that.i tried expressing,got a tiny bit out,and when she'd drank that i tried cows milk in it,clever little madam spat it out and wont go near it now!

browniegirl · 14/04/2006 03:29

I fed my daughter until she was 2, I think it got to the stage where there wasn't much milk being produced and she was gettin a bit rough and I always said that when I was no longer enjoying breast feeding I would stop. Luckily she didn't ask for it once after so she was obviously ready. I thoroughly enjoyed feeding her even though it got off to a terrible start. However after, I got terribly broody and then got pregnant again and my son is 10 months old and has been a dream to feed and I thoroughly enjoy every minute and I hope he wants it until he is 4, Then I will be ready for number 3!

jenk1 · 14/04/2006 09:54

hello, my dd is 2 next week and im still feeding her and will until she,s ready to stop

Karmamother · 14/04/2006 13:25

I fed my DS till he was 17 months. We had to stop as I needed a course of tablets that were contra-indicated in BFing so we stopped. I had planned to feed till 2 at least & looking back I never considered that to be "extended" BFing.
I'm currently BFing my 20wk old DS & want to feed for as long as we both want to. My problem is my DP, believe it or not. I know for a fact that if I wanted to feed longer than a year he'd be dropping unsubtle hints that it was time to stop. I feel quite of all you women who have supportive partners.

Eulalia · 15/04/2006 15:04

BF ds1 every day till he was 5 then it dropped off a lot and tailed out to every few days, few months etc till he was 6. Still BF dd who will be 4 tomorrow (just at nighttime) and also feeding 8 month ds2. I don't admit to this in RL, am usually quite vague about it. Nothing too bizzaire re feeding just lots of nipple twiddling of the spare breast which is cut when they are little but gets annoying as they get older.

Eulalia · 15/04/2006 15:05

cute that is not cut.

CKMUM · 15/04/2006 18:58

My eldest is 27 months and my youngest 13 months and they both breastfeed. Look at Jane's breastfeeding resources www.breastfeeding.co.uk, click on view articles, then reader submitted articles, the article at the top of the list called tandem feeding is written by me.

My eldest loves action songs at the moment and the latest thing at the moment, since she learnt the actions to the wheels on the bus, where the horn goes beep beep beep is to lift my top, press my nipple and say beep beep!

She also brings her favourite doll over to me, lifts up my top and tries to latch her on. and sometimes tries to feed her doll herself or lifts my youngest ones top up and tried to get her to feed the doll.

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Adorabelle · 15/04/2006 20:28

Am in the states at the moment visiting family,& LO has forced me &my partner to sleep in separate beds. The 3 of us have always slept in the same bed, this is due to her feeding thruout the night,she still does at 22months. At home we have a Super Kingsize bed which fits all 3 of comfortably,here we only have a standard double which is Way too small for us. Dh has been banished to the spare room,what a sweetie though he doesnt mind at all &says as long as dd is happy &content thats all that matters. Co sleeping has been a life saver,would have gone insane with sleep deprivation without it

ruty · 15/04/2006 20:49

i'm still breastfeeding ds at 19 months - he is much more into it now than he ever had been before! We also co sleep and he does breastfeed at night a bit - which at some point if we have another baby we'll have to address. He is very confident and not at all clingy, and i hope to breastfeed till he is two. i expect all out war though trying to wean him!

Melpomene · 16/04/2006 14:21

dd1 is nearly 3 and only stopped breastfeeding recently. I'm still feeding dd2 who is nearly 1.

leonsmum · 16/04/2006 23:17

What a great thred!

My DS is 12 months next week and I'm still breastfeeding him and I hope to continue doing so until he is about 2ish.

I't's so nurturing and loving and it's great to know that there are other Mums out there that are doing it too.

eidsvold · 17/04/2006 13:52

dd1 - bottlefed and that was hard... When dd2 was born figured I would also bottlefeed her. I perservered with breastfeeding and now at almost 18 months old she still has at least one feed - usually first thing in the morning although she can and does ask for another feed sometime during the day. She just climbs on my lap and either lifts my shirt, points at my boobs or will pull my shirt out and look down it and point at my boobs. I keep thinking I should start weaning her off totally BUT she likes it and it is our only quiet time during the day - feed in the morning. She is a tweaker too - tweaks the other one whilst feeding or she just lays her hand on it.

She will often just say please and point at the boob BUT the other day I did hear her say something that sounded like 'nork' I got concerned that she had been reading mumsnet...

I figure I will just do it until she is ready to give it up totally.

footprint · 17/04/2006 14:38

Hello other-extended-breastfeeders!

Just wanted to add support - my dd is 2 in 2 weeks time and still bfing. She loves it, I love it, why should we stop??

She also likes to shout "BOOBY" and lift my shirt while on the train, and fondle the other one - but she has never tried to put it in her ear LOL!!

My only complaint is that my periods have not started again yet, and we want to start ttc again. Ah well....

footprint · 17/04/2006 14:40

By the way, we also co-sleep, but she normally sleeps through the night, thank goodness (although she goes to bed late perhaps that's why).

ruty · 17/04/2006 15:32

ds is a tweaker too - drives me crazy - have to keep my elbow clamped over one boob while he feeds from other!

YanksUponThames · 18/04/2006 15:48

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YanksUponThames · 19/04/2006 10:05

Sorry about long-winded rude post. Didn't mean to sound unfair to any side of the issue! It's such a personal thing. I was just ranting because I think Life (and childrearing!) have enough pressures already. Along with all the things we don't have control over. No point adding more pressure (in any direction). Very sorry if I sounded like it!

ElaineCA · 19/04/2006 12:59

Hello! You are very much not alone. :) I breast fed by DS until he was 2 yrs 7 months and I mainly stopped because it was encouraging him to wake in the night for a feed. He is now 3 and 1 month and he sleeps much better (and so do I!) We both miss it though, he still comes and asks for a 'snug' and gives my boobs a kiss. When he used to be feeding he would try tuning in to the world service on the other nipple. :0

dieselten · 19/04/2006 14:29

I'm really pleased I found this thread. I fed DS for three years and felt really isolated for most of that. Nobody I knew was doing it and after too many rude comments from other mums and my own sister I just stopped feeding in front of other people. I felt more than a little sad when we stopped altogether but it seemed like the time was right and it happened quite easily. Even now if DS (just turned 4) is upset or tired he wants to sit on my knee and "put hand on booby" which he does over my shirt. DH thinks this is a little weird but I know it isn't, it's only been a year since he stopped breastfeeding after all.

Good on you wangle99 for sticking with it. I hope you continue to enjoy it for as long as possible.

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