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

[lisalisa]

Message withdrawn

yes, I have to admit the comments made here have annoyed me!

i have to go now. But i look forwad to chatting on another topic soon, no doubt. Please be more open next time and let that guard down..... (wink)

It's not very surprising, people like to categorise, and if you support bf, without being a stay-at-home-and-knit-lentils type, it throws people off.

Perhaps you could start your own thread or even clique about me.

hercules- the one who gives short responses on some threads, forces her views on others, thinks everyone should bf and even puts her children into nursery!

It's not impossible to fully breastfeed a baby, or give them a combination of solids and breastmilk if you are WOH full-time. I did it with my first child - he didn't get any cows' milk protein until he was over 9 months.

If you are motivated and organised, then it's fairly straightforward to express milk (and for those who don't get more than a few drops, it does increase with practice). If you are worried about supply, then you can make sure that you have unlimited BF in the evenings and weekends. You may have to change how you do things around the house - it's a case of priorities for you and DH.

If you leave a young baby, they are likely to sleep most of the day when you are not there, and save their waking moments for when they are with you.

For babies who are on solids, then it's fairly easy to keep their tummies full this way, and even easier if they will take EBM.

Work does not automatically mean bottles of formula.

I do not hae a probel with anything i had read bout you doing with your children. Just me less short. PLLEEAASSEE

Tbh Louise, after reading your comments about me I'm more likely to avoid you as a poster.

As for letting my guard down, do you want me to post my real name and address??

Last request, stop making comments about me.

Louise, I will continue to post how i see fit and how it is convenient.

i have stopped, but you keep typing to me...

Err, I just responded to your last comment about me. I will continue to respond to comments about me though not to general comments.

But we all make comments to each other.
stop typing to me, then. I am now laughing now, i hope you are...

Yes, but not about other posters that are simply untrue.

yes, I am laughing now!

i suppose it depend on how the reader see it. Don't worry i know people who read my comments and think i am a shit mother, as i have been called. Not by you. You will always get people picking at what you are saying, thats life. But here will always be someone who does like what you hae said. I do like what you talk about most of the time, but i can't like what you say all of the time. Hopefully you like what i say sometimes.

Friends (smile)

i am missing the farmers market and i need to go know, sorry. X

That's fine. I object to people stating my opinion when what they state is untrue and there is no evidence in my postings for this.

What if I felt from your postings you were a violent racist and I said I felt from your postings you were? Bet you'd be annoyed and do all you could to make sure people realised it wasnt true and I bet you'd ask the poster to justify their statements.

Just dont state crap about me unless you can substantiate it.

Actually i would not. I have never cared what people think about me. I may re write what i have said to make it clearer. Sorry if that is a boring statement. But i think ther are so many people with different opinions about things and on people that it really does not matter. Becuase the people who do love me know. Thats how you should think. we are never going to meet each other, this just passes the time.

i could scroll down and quote what you said about me but cant be bothered to.

I find it sad when i see tiny newborn babies being given formula. I know that there are parents who can't or don't want to bf but i always think of the health benefits of it to a newborn.

I find it embarrasing when i see an older child(2 and over) breastfeed. What happens behind closed doors is up to the individual but i don't really feel comfortable with it.

I struggled with all breastfeeding all 3 of my children but i was determined to bf and put up with the cracked nipples, and leaking milk every where and demand feeding (with DD2 up to 13 times a day!)

It is bloody tough to get the bfing established and if you do or don't want to breast feed should be down to mum and no-one else.

Apologies tiktok - I think I was using the term in a rather loose way.

Why is embarrassment the emotion you feel when you see a toddler breastfeeding?

Does embarrassment perhaps come from not often seeing it and breasts in our society being seen as soley a sexual thing?

I do sometimes think I should bf my toddler in public rather than "behind closed doors" so that it becomes more normal iyswim for people to see older children being bf.

Embarrassment means that the problem lies with the onlooker, not with the BF mum.