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Breastfeeding a toddler? What ^else^ have you breastfed lately?

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FanjoFanjoWhosGotTheFanjo · 03/08/2006 19:58

I've breastfed:

  • a horse
  • a train
  • a sort of lobstery creature.

Anyone else feeding a menagerie?

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Flamesparrow · 03/08/2006 20:08

No, but I have "expressed" using a child's inhaler spacer...

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FanjoFanjoWhosGotTheFanjo · 03/08/2006 20:15

Your toddler felt it would work?

That's even weirder than bf a lobstery thing, I think. The lobstery thing just made sucking/slurpy noises on each side and was done. I don't know how I'd begin to express with an inhaler spacer.

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Flamesparrow · 03/08/2006 20:22

I'm actually only breastfeeding the baby, but the toddler is very keen to join in. She found the spacer, decided that it looked like the pump, and insisted on me doing it. She looked so miffed at the lack of milk inside that I considered hand expressing some in....

misdee · 03/08/2006 20:23

i've just had a doll thrown at my breast.

Flamesparrow · 03/08/2006 20:33

DD is very pro breastfeeding... she got quite stroppy with my mum when she refused to breastfeed a toy dog in the doctor's waiting room (dogs ar very bright and know that they are meant to be fed from bare nipple, and not through t-shirts)

morningpaper · 03/08/2006 20:37

Thomas the Tank engine

Didn't feel quite right

Eulalia · 03/08/2006 20:38

ds1 has attempted to breastfeed most of his soft toys. Not got the heart to tell him he won't be able to do it when he's older.

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FanjoFanjoWhosGotTheFanjo · 03/08/2006 20:41

Yeah, the train I've fed was Thomas. Well, he does have a face, could be worse.

The weird little lobstery thing was stranger.

DS2 only started getting me to bf other things when I took a bath with him. He wasn't sure he was allowed to bf (I only bf in my room now, well, I'll bf on some planes soon!), so was testing the water by putting a horse to my nipple and making the appropriate noises.

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laundrylover · 03/08/2006 21:30

My DD expresses from her tummy with an inhaler thing too!

KristinaM · 03/08/2006 21:32

baby annabelle

shazronnie · 03/08/2006 21:34

DS2 is 18 mths and mad on bf; don't think he'll let any teddies share!!

FrannyandZooey · 03/08/2006 21:37

Ah, I love that stage; I breastfed a small boat and several plastic animals in my time

ds then started feeding pandas and other objects with his belly button.

These days it is only ds I breastfeed, but the mecca of breastfeeding in his opinion is also "Bath Milkies". I am not keen on it - it's so....so....fleshy Even dp has walked in on us and walked out quailing slightly before

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FanjoFanjoWhosGotTheFanjo · 03/08/2006 22:12

Ah, I call it "bath with buffet". I'm ok about it, DS2 is sometimes a bath refusnik, so it's a question of "whatever gets him in".

Well, I do sorta mind bathing with the kids as they are quite boney and there always seems to be somewhere that's uncomfortable.

(F&Z, did you see my outraged thread about the Horrible Neighbours? They gave back the bottle of wine.)

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FanjoFanjoWhosGotTheFanjo · 03/08/2006 22:12

Oh, DS2 did go through a short phase of trying to attach duplo to my nipples. That was weird.

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FrannyandZooey · 03/08/2006 22:16

Oh god @ neighbours! I thought we had established they were pissheads, though? That must have cost them dear to refuse alcohol

oh fuck em. They are barking. Sorry you have to put up with them (do your lovely noise machines not drown the worst of it out?)

FrannyandZooey · 03/08/2006 22:17

And I think we should write to Lego about the possibility of a nipple compatible system. If you could attach pirate ships and tow trucks to your breasts it would make breastfeeding a lot less tedious. For me, anyway.

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FanjoFanjoWhosGotTheFanjo · 03/08/2006 22:19

There was a note. They don't want "bribes or payments" from neighbours, just reciprocity and a whatever whatever whatever. I said, in the note, that the wine was a "token of apology" for the building nose etc.

They are absolutely pissheads.

I think part of the problem, too, is I bet they are estranged from their granddaughter (who I used to know, who lived locally, and is pretty much DS1's age). Certainly their DIL hated them. So they are probably more bothered by DS1 than they would be otherwise, iyswim.

No, I don't have to deal with them much, but living near to Pure Evil is slightly wearying. I will cope, largely by ranting to all and sundry about them being mad.

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FanjoFanjoWhosGotTheFanjo · 03/08/2006 22:19

How is bf tedious? I lie down, I read a book, I ignore DS2.

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FanjoFanjoWhosGotTheFanjo · 03/08/2006 22:19

Right, must sleep, am still trashed from bad night of fighting with neighbours, even though that was Tuesday.

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Flamesparrow · 03/08/2006 22:22

Was lurking on the neighbours thread... I can't believe they gave back the wine!!!!!!!

Xena · 03/08/2006 22:33

I don't have to feed anything but DD2 'feeds' everything by stuffing it up her top.
DD1 (whos 4) is quite prudish (is that a word?) about bf so doesn't and when DS2 was crying at bluewater said 'your not going to do that here are you' I'm very discreet!
Was going to post about DS1 (8) laughing at DS2 'hahaha he just grabs your boob' etc etc what do I reply? 'Its the way babies feed' To bl**dy making it worse DH ffs was tittering as well

FrannyandZooey · 03/08/2006 22:51

It's tedious. I have probably had enough of it some days. I feed in a darkened room as part of ds's sleep time routine so can't read. I want to be getting up and doing things. I find the physical sensation irritating sometimes. I have been doing it many times every day for 3.4 years, after all. I have a low threshhold for boredom

Neighbours sound dreadful. Avoid any further encounters at all costs, I think.

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FanjoFanjoWhosGotTheFanjo · 04/08/2006 07:09

The funny thing was, DH said, "ok, we must give them wine". He had said, before, that we should go around the neighbours on that side, who we don't know, and give wine, and I was too lazy/busy to sort it out .

But my first thought when he said it, after I went round was, "oh great, we will find it broken on our doorstep". So I knew it would come back - at least they just gave it back, rather than covering our doorstep in broken glass.

If I couldn't read, BF would bore me, too. I feed DS2 before and after sleeps in a not-very-bright room, but my feeding technique involves providing access, and leaving him be. (Ok, I sometimes coax him to feed a bit more off the less-favoured boob, but still.)

Xena, that would really p*ss me off, well, particularly if my DH was laughing, too ... maybe he was laughing at DS1, more than at the bf?

(Oh, my DS1 is still periodically trying to feed, and he managed it successfully the other day. I don't think he'll make a habit of it, but it's quite strange he's still trying.)

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FrannyandZooey · 04/08/2006 08:04

How old is ds1 now? Nearly 5? It's not that odd for him to be trying, is it? (or do you mean it feels odd to you?)

I don't think ds is stopping any time soon. I tried to drop the waking up milk recently (it's my least favourite one), but he wasn't having any of it. I asked him this morning if just for once we could skip it as the window cleaner was coming early and I needed a shower, but he got quite upset.

I told him when he was older he wouldn't want milkies any more. He said "Hmm. I think I will, occasionally."

MamaG · 04/08/2006 08:25

I bf a whole noah's ark once - "the animals bf one by one...."

dinosaurs

cars

dolls

She even tried to foist the dog on me once. A big labrador - I vetoed that one.