Breastfeeding older babies

[hunkermunker]

Anyone got any tips?

There is lots and lots of help out there for people who are breastfeeding a newborn (and rightly so, of course!!!), but there's not much in the way of information for those of us who want to continue feeding and have children who agree with that choice, shall we say?!

Re; size and positioning, once they get to about 2 they can actually sit on your knee to feed. Brilliant!

Turning a 13 kg toddler over to get to the other side is a great upper body workout.

thanks, mears. My dd2 probably has a good six feeds a day and is showing no signs of wanting to stop, but she drinks so little of anything else. The hv says I need to stop offering to bfeed and give her a cup of water instead apart from morning and evening but I haven't taken any notice of her!

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There is an article in today's Guardian Weekend section about extended breastfeeding which is quite interesting.

I fed DD1 for 2y3m, DD2 for 2y6m and DS is still feeding at 2y3m. I fed them openly until they were about 18 months but more privately once they started tugging at clothes or stopping for a look around.

I'm still BF DS, who is 7.5 months. I actually feel more comfortable now that he is on solids and I'm not going to those monthly weigh-ins. BF is still the main component of his diet (even though he loves his grub) but I just feel so much more chilled out about it all.

I feel very confident that I'll feed to 18 months and will probably reassess then.

just thought I'd post this wonderful link here too

I'm still feeding dd at 15 months and will continue until she decides to stop. I take her lead and feed her when she signals that she wants a feed.

I get some opposition from my mother but none from dh. I handle my mother by ignoring the comments.

Agree with what you say though hHunker about there not being much info about it