Inappropriate for young children to know about breastfeeding?

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Friend went into school with her new baby recently. When she was talking about the questions children asked she said she'd been dreading them asking about how the baby was fed.

She then went on to say that her other ds who is six doesn't know because as far as he's concerned her feeding the baby is private time. She then said that she didn't feel it was appropriate for young children to know about things like that.

I didn't bf, but it would never have occurred to me that it was inappropriate for my children to know about it, given it's natural?

Is it inappropriate do you think? Are children too young to learn about boobs etc?

Arrgh. This thread has really been playing on my mind.

My 2-year-old would be delighted to tell anyone that mummy's have boobies for feeding babies because babies like drinking mummy milk. And I LOVE it when she tells me this, all serious and ernest. It's adorable and sweet and RIGHT.

It isn't only odd, I would have thought it quite damaging for the older DC if mummy keeps disappearing for 'private time' with the baby.
I would certainly explain to a class of children that the mother's milk was better for the baby and that I didn't even own a bottle.

Now, this reminds me a little of a situation I was in. My dd was born just a couple of weeks before my ds started in year 1, and when I brought her to school, his class teacher wanted me to show her to the class and answer some questions about her. As it happened, none of the children had a younger sibling and it was the first weeks old baby many of them had ever seen. I was also asked to bring her into class when she was 3 months old so they could see how she'd grown. Although I bf her in front of my ds, I felt rather wary about answering questions about feeding from the children, and just said that my baby was fed with milk, but didn't elaborate (I might have had they asked specifically).

However, I had an absurdly logical reason for not being forthcoming about feeding - though looking back, I think I must have really overthought it! It was a small class and all the mums obviously made smalltalk about feeding (knowing I was bf) and many of them had said how they couldn't bf etc, so I was thinking that I wouldn't want their kids to go home and ask how come they were bottle fed and get answers which made out that bf was difficult, or to make out that they did something wrong because X's mummy said breast was the best way. How's that for walking on eggshells!

However, I certainly fed dd at parties etc that ds was invited to. Don't know if any of the kids noticed.