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

[lisalisa]

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I don't think that's quite fair - this thread is perhaps not huggy cuddly (why should it be?!), but there are plenty of very supportive threads out there and people who have really benefited from advice and support on MN.

Im not saying it should or should not be huggy and cuddly.
As long as you get support, that is the main thing.

People do, so all sorted.

Still would like NJ to tell me what she thought of the WHO link...but doubt she will now.

Sure, individual people can be huggy-cuddly. Some threads are, too.

But the boards as a whole, are not. Friendly, sometimes. Funny, supportive, sociable, sure. But not huggy-cuddly at the cost of all else.

Which is fine by me.

HM, I can tell you're dying to tell someone off for not reading the WHO link. You can tell me off if you like - I haven't read it.

(Does this count as supportive?)

What is the who link?

Here it is again. It's information from the World Health Organisation.

(This is the first time I've been tempted to use the bat. I'm obviously spending too much time here.)

Still haven't read it, HM. So you can still tell me off.

pmsl at the bat. Lisa I didn't post - I've spent far too much time on Mumsnet today, I can't spend the rest of the evening in a row on another board!

I cant see the problem you all seem to have with Nursey Jo, i think she is lovely and she has been maternity nursing for a long time.

I think she is lovely anyway. smile

Hunkermunker: I read the WHO page via your link and found it all very informative. (No back-patting and I don't know HM personally or otherwise... Don't think I have ever 'chatted' with her before.)

Do you think that NJ is still reading this thread? I thought that she flounced right off MN to seek the support of other professionals.

Fair enough Caligula. Was corrie any good then?

No it's gone so downhill. I think they must have a new team of writers, because nearly all the story lines are just ludicrous. But at least Tracey's being reasonable now!

That Shelley and Charlie storyline has gone on far too long now. yawn yawn

pmsl.. only on mumsnet can you cover topics starting with "lactivists" and ending with Coronation Street

Ok, i have read the who link, thanx.
Not sure what i think about it though.

I hope i dont get cancer as my mum could not breastfeed me!!

Lisa2.. thats kind of what I was inferring to beemokha, but I was joking about it as it doesn't really matter to me (ok, ok, now!). Statistics are statistics. I've made it to the grand old age of (cough cough splutter) and I'm fine. The majority of breasfeeders are fine with this too, and I'm sure the majority of breastfeeders would have probably laughed when I said there was nothing wrong with meooooOOOOOOOO!! when confronted with the rather odd response that I got that cows milk was for cows brains. Makes me a cow.. I stand up and bow. Or moo. I don't care.

You don't see any lactivists in Corrie, do you? In fact, the only time I have ever seen bf mentioned (only marginally) in a soap storyline, is when Susannah in Brookside asked her nanny where her Avent breast pump was.

(Doubtless 10 people will now come on and tell me they remember scenes of new mother bf-ing!)

An acquaintance writes for the soaps. I asked if they could show bf on telly (a friend recently breastfed on telly, with the producer saying she couldn't and the host saying she could ... dunno what show though). She didn't know. I'm guessing they don't, often.

Ooh, NQC, if he writes for Corrie, could you please tell him to stop writing crappy storylines and to get Tracey back together with Steve!

Oh and then of course Tracey could have another baby and we could have bf storyline!

I don't know which soaps she writes for ... she was a bit dismissive of the subject when I asked. I've never watched an English soap opera (and haven't watched an American one for a good 20 years), so it wasn't a good conversational area for me ...

Na'alie on EE breastfed and struggled with tiredness.

The link was to demonstrate that the World Health Organisation recommend breastfeeding for two years plus. If they don't think that breastmilk has no nutritional value after a year, why would they say that?

And yes, this recommendation covers both developing and developed countries.

Love that. So was it the BF that was making na'alie tired, or the lack of sleep that happens whether you breast or bottle-feed?!