Whats the maximum age you would feel comfortable allowing your child to breastfeed?

[Kiansmummy]

I am on the fence about this one- this topic has probably been discussed many times before.
But I am just interested in peoples opinions as obviously there arent any right/ wrong answers because it is down to individual preference. Thanks.

Do you bf? What an odd question

Well, you have answered it yourself really, haven't you! Down to individual peoples preference and nothing to do with anyone else!

I dont think it is odd at all- yes I do! And due to the mixed reactions I have had off friends/ family e.t.c for feeding my one year old I just wanted peoples opinions not to be told my message is 'odd'

i plan to go on til either one of us wants to stop. I think quite often you only know that time when you get to it.

At the moment DS is almost 2. Personally I would like to think he stops somewhere between 3 and 4, not sure why exactly. Don't have a problem with what other people choose to do.

Personally - 3 ish.

personally 2

I think it's impossible to put an age limit on it. Before I had children I couldn't imagine breastfeeding at all.

The latest I breastfed was 13 months. I wanted my boobs back, but more to the point, dh wanted my boobs back.

I guess I might be in the minority on this thread, but I am not bothered. Each to their own.

I will stop when DS wants to. No age limit. No difference to me between 36 months and 37 months once you get to that stage.

I'm still breastfeeding DD at almost 22 mths, although it's really only a quick bedtime feed now. I'm not in any hurry to stop. Second baby is due in April so I envisage tandem feeding unless she decides to drop her bedtime milk.

I would have been able to give you a number before BFing myself. Now, it will be acceptable to me as long as it is OK for DS - although I would dearly love to night wean him. He's 18 months. I expect other people to (if they don't already) feel uncomfortable before he and I do. My BFing is not an issue for DP at all.

Till the child wants to stop. It's hard to say in isolation when you'd feel comfortable or not. I bf DS until he was 3.2, when he self-weaned. By the time he was 3.3 it would have felt weird bfing him because it was something we didn't do any more. But had he not self-weaned at 3.2 I'd have been quite comfortable bfing him to 3.3 and beyond, and if DD wants to bf past 3.2 that's fine with me. If I look at a random 3yo and imagine breastfeeding a child that age then it does seem odd, but you don't start feeding a toddler -- you keep feeding your own child and they age gradually. Trying to pick an arbitrary "I feel uncomfortable after X" point is just too divorced from the gradualist reality to be useful or relvant, IMO.

Originally planned to bf for a year ... Not sure - I know I'm probably not going to get much support from DH and my mum with bfing a toddler and I don't want to be doing it for years and years (although hoping for more DC so will be anyway iyswim - break inbetween might be nice though). Can't imagine stopping yet though (DD 20 weeks). Probably 2ish but will see ...

DS weaned at around age 4, but I would have quite happily fed him for longer if he needed to.