when do you become an extended bf then ? after 6 months or a year?

[kittenbaby]

after all this talk about extended bf when do you become one ? after 6 months or after 1 year?
im already been asked when im gonna stop and dd is only 4 months
and being told by the hv im slowing down her development by ex bf her

at your HV!!!!!

She's talking utter shite!

No idea tbh when it's classed as extended....

I b/fed DD for 7 months, and DS for 2 and a bit years.

I guess after a year is when people really start to take notice of the size of the child you are feeding.

hi vendi i know she really is the worst hv ever , i hate the old crow shes put me through hell with me bf but im still going

think ill join the ex bf club,just to piss her off lol

Oh my god

I don't think it matters when (or if) it's classed as extended but I think she needs retraining and you should point this out to your health authority, whose policy it should be to encourage exclusive breastfeeding until 6 months and certainly not to stop then.

pink wellies ive told my gp all the things shes said to me, trust me theres a lot and he said he is going to sort it out

she told me its totally and utterly unrealistic when i told her i was going to bf ex till 6 months ,thats another reason im gonna do my best to do it

Oh for goodness' sake, is she still going on? That woman has some serious issues.

I don't think there is a definition, really. I'd like to think it was "past two years" given that the WHO recommendation is to bf until at least two.

kitten, have you reported her? I remember how hard she tried to sabotage it for you at the beginning, she's a danger to society. PLEASE consider reporting her.

yep theres no end to her pearls of wisdom

yeah i have, dont want her doing it to other women

actually I am currently teaching a couple of GCSE child dveleopment classes and according to the text book it is anything past 2 weeks
luckily I am going in to set them straight

How awful Kitten - I hope the GP does do something, and if not will you take it further?

maybe as shes moved on to pressurising me[ or trying to] to giving dd soilds ffs shes is only 4 months old
she hasnt suceeded in stopping me bf and she def wont get me to give dd food til im ready

kittenbaby good for you for sticking it out
can your wee baby really be 4 months
how ar eyou both doing?

Eurgh. She's dangerous. Letter to PCT wouldn't go amiss. Some of the things my HV has said to me have worried me a bit (not quite on this scale though!) because I know to take it with a pinch of salt but other mums might blindly follow her (bad) advice.

Can you get threatening on her ass?

I'd like to.

we are doing great thanks harpsi x im loving being a mummy and dd is doing great, shes such a lovely baby she loves swimming, baths music and being danced around with
she is a champion sleeper [feels so lucky as i had a rough pregnancy and was up about 7 times a night, so now i get a really good nights sleep i really apprecaite it

thanks for all your help cheering me on esp in the early days xx

Kitten, it's great to see you sounding so confident and reliant on your own judgment and parenting skills. The contrast with your early posts where your confidence had been so badly undermined is really striking. Good for you!

thanks im so happy i stuck with it, it given me a great sense of pride and achivement in a way the fact i did find it quite hard makes the sense of achivement seem higher if that makes any sense

report her! Do it, they only get away with spouting this #### because nobody knows they are still doing it!

I'd say extended was about 2 years.

Oh your HV sounds like a bloody nightmare.

In answer to the question though, I don't know.

I used to assume you only breastfed for six months, because after that you had to use follow-on milk.

Advertising works thankfully I had MN to put me straight!