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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emkana you are right, it was four stories of Mad Breastfeeders

And the crazy husband who basically said that everyone who breastfeeds gives her husband a drink, occasionally

emakana IMHO there is a huge difference between BF a baby of 6 months or even one of 2 years

And the ones of this prog

Yes its so obscene and mad to feed a human child human milk

At 10 years old? Definitely.

Have you never heard of that natural biological process called weaning?

But DumbledoresGirl this just starts the whole discussion again when the "right" time for weaning would be...
this is very interesting

Though even according to the text in that link 10 years is very old.
But I think the girl in the film didn't actually breastfeed, she just talked about it.

the adopted toddler did not want to bf, it was just upsetting her. if she wanted to help that much, the poor girl just wanted to be cuddled.

the 7yr old was unusual. maybe extreme, i dunno. the twins, perfectly normal. kirsty, perfectly normal.

the adopting lady, i dunno, i understand her wanting the little girl to have the benefit of breastmilk, but not sure if trying to get her to breastfeed was right (but i am not even sure if 'right' is the correct way to say it).

until today dd3 was demand feeding at 20months. today i have cut her right back to one at night. not gradulally, just completely cut it down.

the 10 year old had stoped at 5, but think she had a bf every now and then. the younger sister was still going at 7.

I breastfed both of mine and loved the bond it gave us. I wish I'd fed dd1 for longer (stopped at 6mths cos I was getting the same comments as emkana). Fed dd2 for 14 months.
BUT I think that breast feeding kids into school age is just not right.
What would their friends say?
And before you shoot me down for that, if they are doing something this intimate but are ashamed to tell their freinds about it where is the line drawn between care and abuse? how much teasing would a ten year old get?
Don't even get me started on force feeding a child not used to the breast. At 2yo? FFS!

emkana - very interesting link indeed. Her comment about most children self weaning doing so between 3-4 would certainly put a 10 year old wishing to breastfeed beyond the normal range and justifies me in my belief that it is not right.

One thing humans have over animals is a sense of society and I think that has a part to play too.

Yes I have heard of weaning. The worldwide average age of child-led weaning is 4 years...so that means an awful lot of children carry on bfing far beyond that, especially given that so few bf past a few months even in the western world.

Yep, I read the link too thanks!

puke at idea of drinking husband.

big BIG sigh....

it really, really saddens me when the word abuse is used in a discussion about extended breastfeeding.

Actually it doesn't only sadden me, it makes me very angry as well.

Time for me to leave this thread alone now...

There were all sorts of "issues" in that family though, IMO (the one with the 7yo still bfeeding and the 10yo who said she'd like to "as a birthday present" - although she didn't, iirc, get this wish).

The youngest girl was playing her mother to keep bfeeding, the older one was jealous of the attention - and then the mum ended up doing it in secret (again, iirc). To hold them up as a sane example of extended bfeeding is to miss the point so spectacularly one might even question whether the point is in the same universe, IMO.

Given that primary schools have only really been around for the past 200 years and humans have been around for a awful lot longer than that I fail to see why attending school has any bearing on what is normal human behaviour.

its just not the norm here to bf, i am starting to feel uncomfortable now feeding ds in public at nerly 7 months, just becouse of the attitudes towards bf, this program has not helped at all.

Abuse is when a child is forced to do something obscene/violent/both they don't want to - NOT a word that should ever be used in the context of bfeeding, IMO

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but iirc the adopted toddler was been forced to breast feed

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HM did you see the program? what she was doing to that girl was horrible, It was upsetting her, but she carried on.

With words like abuse, obscene and wierd being used to decribe bfing - is it any wonder people feel the need to to it in private only .