whats the longest anyone has bf for? anyone still doing it with lo's at school?

[prettylovebird]

ok i know dd is only 7 months,but, i want to bf her forever, and just wondering what it will be like when shes at school or preschool

Agree pagwatch

Breast feeding a six year old would stop ME going out! Eew!

I find it offensive because it was a way of people who actually find bfing a bit yucky (not an uncommon experience in UK) being able to express that feeling and disguise it with humour. Oh it's only a joke! When I was still feeding DS#2 in public when he was 2/3 there would always be someone who would make a comment along the lines of 'you're not still feeding that child are you?' and then snigger and say the inevitable 'bitty!'. And because it was supposed to be a joke I was supposed to smile and think it funny. And because it was a 'joke' it became impossible to engage them in any kind of debate about it, I just had to take it.

The sketch was amusing in a skin-crawlingyly awful sort of way (the first time) but it's the way it's been hijacked by anti-bfers and used as a disguised insult that is the problem.

yes, I agree with pagwatch. I don't think clinginess and extended bf have any sort of reltionship.
I can assure you I have lots of nights out and in fact have been away for 2/3 days at a time from dds (even when i was feeding both of them ) with no problems at all.
it is because we see bf as such an oddness that we see any deviation from the norm as the "fault" of bf. children are just different.

Why Eew PuppyMonkey?

gah....I cant be bothered.

Sorry bit eew cos breastfeeding a 6yo is a bit eew imho.

I don't have nearly enough nights out. But it has nothing to do with breastfeeding.

Apologies for earlier hijacking with little britain rant. My main objection is that they only have about 3 jokes which are endlessly endlessly recycled.

Why do so many people go "eew" at extended breastfeeding? I suspect because we live in a culture that is confused about sex and has forgotten what bosoms are for.

"eew"? Why?

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No probs with extended bf if that's what u want. All I'm saying is BF a six year old is weird and unnecessary.

No imagination.

unnecessary because......?

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cos, erm, u don't need breast milk when you're six??? Am I wrong???

you don't need breast milk when you are born
but most of all you don't need to comment about things that are none of your business
tolerance, and all that.

sorry, I thought that's what MN was for!

I'll get me coat...

i don't need dairy milk
but

I bfeed ds (2.2) and whilst it is annoying (kicking, poking, jiggling, drive-by nursing etc) I am very glad we are still doing it - it's a godsend and also very healthy - he is never ill (fingers crossed) and I can still feed him to sleep occasionally if necessary - very useful. Since about 18 months he's only fed morning and bedtime and after naps if I'm there - never in public these days. It's much easier to impose boundaries when they are over two adn I think he will selfwean eventually. Biting is not a problem if you say NO firmly when it happens. The only thing I would say is don't let your nursing toddler start twiddling your other nipple - it is a universal toddler-nursing habit and it is absolutely maddening, almost enough to make me want to wean him now. Kellymom site is good on all this. have fun.

ah yeah good point puppy
it can be a bit hurtful though, people going "eewww"

I don't need chocolate...but....

only giving an outsider's opinion. And ONLY about the 6yo not anyone else!

ChasingSquirrels I'd offer you a bit of my Dairy Milk but it's mine, all mine!!!!!!!

as vvqv said much earlier, "You dont wake up one morning feeding a 2, 3 or 4 year old, after all. They grow right in front of you"

it isn't as if we are starting to bf them at 3, but a natural continuing process which evolves as the child develops.