Breastfeeding till the age of 4 - what do you think?

[lisalisa]

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I understand the nature of the debate as I read it carefully and I too enjoy exchanging opinions but think I'll duck out to Special Needs where I usually go. Just for the record I loved breastfeeding and would have liked to carry on for longer.

elun i am really terrible sorry your son has all that to deal with. My heart does go out to you. But the reason this thread got heated was when misinformation was touted as fact. It is still important that women get more support for breast feeding, and that is a separate issue that people are entitled to feel passionate about.

You know what I meant, ndp!

Elun, you are quite right, there are more important things in life but this thread is a place for discussing the not so important things and posting here doesnt mean we dont have lives!

Could not read the last 20 threads, as too long, but great subject. I have never quite understood why the the mums who bf for 4 months give up because they go back to work. It is such a hard thing to concor, why do they not express and give normal feeds i the morning and nigh. It's hardly worth while. Well course it is worth while, anything is better than nothing, but it is such a shame. I must admit i cannot express. i get 1 drip every 8 minutes. But many can. My frind who had a baby the same time as me, and for her second gave up with ds1 and dd2 just because it still hurt after 24 hours and she could not be lothered.

Since not working i notice i can not spell or type anymore. AArrgghh!!!

if the WHO thinks there are health benefits to it, then it's fine by me.

Don't worry Louise, since not working I can bearly speek. Let alone spel.

oh I had that, the expressing I mean. I would be there for hours trying to express between feeds I ended up feeling deflated literally and like a cow.

Gave up at 4 months with both children as that was enough for me. Loved the bond and the ease of it but was fed up of having stretched tops, breast pads and I just wanted my body back to myself to feel like I was me, which by 4 months with both I didn't. Felt trapped and depressed at the yo yo emotions during breastfeeding......would feel so tired after feeding I had no energy no motivation, which would lead to mood swings and crying...I was a mess.

Hercules I can see what you mean and didn't really mean to sound so extreme. Now I'm more used to dealing with ds2s probs I do find more of the things that I used to find interesting worth talking about iyswim! A few months after diagnosis I couldn't have even read this thread. But what got me cross was reading comments (can't remember who by now!) who said derogatory things about a 4yr old with lump of rubber in mouth, still in pushchair and drinking from bottle! It hit a raw nerve that's all

gosh elun don't know who said that or in what context but i can understand how you feel.

(hercules: I'm glad you're not offended ... unless you're expressing your offense by calling me NomDePlume? It's a strange way to do it.)

elun, that comment was actually made by someone who was pointing out how judgmental some posters were being ... she wasn't judging herself, she was making a point about other people's posts.

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nursery jo. I too have heard this. There was a programe on the Vanessa show on the radio 94.9. About a month ago. There is definetaly no nutritional benefit and yes clingy and slower on socail skills. Not all but most..

Words fail me. Truly.

Well, polite ones.

Mind you...Vanessa? Says it all, really.

haven't read the thread so you have my uninhibited gut reaction.

I think - I don't get it, why bother until 4 years old.

and I also think - if mums want to do that then fair enough, what business is it of mine? It certainly doesn't bother me in the slightest (and why should it)

Sorry i know Vanessa can be anoying, but she does have good health experts on a Tuesday, i think... Plug, Plug.

Well, she was totally wrong about no nutritional benefit and also about the clingy children with slow social skills.

Why are you plugging the prog?

Where have the DoH stated this, NurseyJo?

And how many children do you personally have experience of who have breastfed for 2+ years?

World Health Organisation's breastfeeding information page

May be of interest...

Sorry iam not plugging the program, but just having a laugh, as i am tired, and i need to go to bed, as i will be awake with ds1 in 5 hours time, yawn. But that was what the top breast feeding counciler or somone high up in that dept was saying.. Does not bother me if people want to carry on.