HOW DO YOU FEED A 7 YEAR OLD???...................EXTENDED BREAST FEEDING.............

[RTKangaMummy]

CH 4

TONIGHT

11.00

It is a repeat but thought some people may have missed it 1st time round

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Extraordinary Breastfeeding
Channel 4 Monday 13 November, 11pm

Everyone knows that breast is best, but for how long? The World Health Organisation recommends that all children are breastfed until at least two years. In Britain we think that's downright weird. But this forthright, revealing and heart-warming film meets a group of women who believe in continuing to breastfeed for as long as their children want.

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Veronika is still breastfeeding her seven-year-old daughter, while her eldest has asked if she can be breastfed as a present for her tenth birthday. Dolores is breastfeeding her son, who is nearly four. Dolores and her husband are about to adopt a little girl from China and her greatest wish is to breastfeed her adopted daughter. Thirty-eight-year-old Sophie is tandem-feeding two-year-old twins Zac and Molly on demand, and is feeling the strain. And Kirsty, who works for an organisation that helps teach young mums how to breastfeed, is breastfeeding her daughter at nearly two and hopes that proposed changes to the law will make it an offence to prevent breastfeeding in public places.

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Thanks for this - I'm in the states so missed the first showing of this programme although I did hear lots of comments about it.

When I called my dad & sister just now to ask them to record it for me, both of them said, "Why? Are you planning on doing this?" Well, what if I am?

"her eldest has asked if she can be breastfed as a present for her tenth birthday" Shoot me down, I don't care, but that is obscene!

I thik your definition of obscene differs from mine, DG.

Unusual, yes. Ill-advised, perhaps.

Obscene? Not really. Obscene is close-up shots of fucking on the side of a bus, perhaps.

Hated that program, makes people who bf past 6 months look like freaks. I know Kristy, and she actualy normal.

IMHO it is weird for a 10 year old

What upset me was the woman with the chinese baby forcing the baby to take the breast when it was used to cups etc

She was determined - listen to what she says and watch the baby/toddler's face

OK not obscene. Felt like using a really strong adjective but forgot the grammar police would be on to me if the breatfeed until they are 20 brigade didn't get there first.

I will settle for creepy.

fucking on the side of a bus sounds like FUN

I saw this programme first time around and actually they didn't cover the 10 year old wanting to be breastfed, as far as I could see

why cant they do a program about normal bf, instead of 10 year olds and adopted babies.

Ah, you got both grammar police and extended bfeeder weirdo on you like a ton of bricks there, DG - double whammy. Lucky you!

I think this programme does nothing for bfeeding.

Have to say from the description below, Kirsty sounds completely normal.

I am adopted btw and I don't have a problem with adoptive mums breastfeeding the baby

BUT this child was already using cups and iirc was a toddler and was frightened that is IIRC

I may have remembered it wrong though so don't shoot me yet please

yes, she was trying to push her to bf, its different with a newborn baby, but thats just sick.

littlepiggy - because 'it makes better TV' perhaps? FWIW, I saw that programme when it was on last time and thought Kristy was lovely.

Is it possible for a child already on cups to breastfeed? I thought there was a special technique to breastfeeding that babies are born pretty much able to do (or at least, pick up very quickly) but surely a child old enough to drink from a cup would not still have that technique?

Just asking - no-one shoot me down for this post please. I can well remember being told giving baby a bottle lessened their ability to breast feed. Was that nonsense?

That was in response to an eatlier post lp.

can i just say, shagging in a bus could be good.

But on the side of a bus? Sounds a bit tricky to me!

how did we get from bf to public sex?

This programme was so cr*p.

One family where the children were, I would say, unusually old to be b/feeding.
That woman who had twins who she first breastfed every two seconds, completely on demand, then radically stopped - when most people, I would think, would gradually and over time move from feeding on demand as a baby to feeding less and less as child grows, thereby weaning gradually.
That woman who was obsessed to b/feed the adopted child, who was clearly bewildered.

Makes me because it just leads to people watching it and going "They are all freaks! Weirdos!" And then the likes of my hardly dare to admit to b/feeding past 18 months for fear of getting stared at...

(I'm ALREADY getting bloody comments that it's time to stop b/feeding ds who is 5 MONTHS FFS - because he has teeth apparently...)

I've done it on a train, a taxi and on the bonnet of several cars

but not a bus (that I can remember)

DumbledoresGirl she was a toddler that she had just got from china and she was forcing the breast into the child's mouth but the child didn't want it

this is what my memory is anyway

DumbledoresGirl, I think children do "unlearn" how to suck on the breast, yes.