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

[lisalisa]

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LOL, Hunker!

...about your FO comment, not the latest one.

Extended breastfeeding -to me- is about doing one day what you did the previous. It's taking the path of least resistance, in a way. There isn't any good reason, that I can see, to stop - it's much better just to leave it up to the baby/toddler/child. As others have said, it's nobody else's business.

Also, if a child is breastfeeing for comfort, where's the kudos in denying it?

I fed ds until he was 4 and dh was fed till he was 4 as well. I'm only going to feed dd until she is two though as I cant be bothered to do so any longer.

Just because you bf for an extended time doesnt make you a hippy or weird. Makes me laugh to see such comments as I'm fairly straight laced!

I agree with posters comments about not suddenly feeding an older child. It doesnt happen that way. Nor is it that unusual. I've spoken to several people who have bf for a long time but sadly it's not something discussed often because of some people finding it repungant.

I saw ds suffering with breathing and excema as a small baby so wanted to do the best I could to give him a chance against it. My db suffers dreadfully as an adult from asthma and excema. Of course it's no guarantees but I know I did my best.

The average age of weaning worldwide is 4 years old anyway......

I find it hard to understand why people get het up about extended b-feeding. It's no skin off anyone's nose, doesn't affect anyone else in any manner whatsoever, so what's the problem? Good luck to the lactivists, I say!

Just waiting for someone to post about how clingy bf kids must be!

I dont get het up anymore tbh either about people's post- so narrowminded!

It's the most natural thing in the world - a mother feeding her child. People who find it repugnant have problems, IMO.

the most civilised feeding thread ever

finally the greater MN population is agreeing that however you feed your child is your own choice.

phew... what a relief!

Everyone else is probably too scared to post!

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POD, that's fine, just as long as you didn't tell about your sanitaryware problems ...

old bat'd have dropped over with a heart attack.

pmsl!

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Don't have a problem with pg guts on beaches. Beer guts...that's quite another matter!

now my non pregnant belly on a beach would be something I wouldn't expose in a million years. Guaranteed to revolt.

Dejags, totally agree there (not re yours, but re mine, iyswim!). Although mine's a pg belly atm, but after my children have finished living in me, I'll be in no state to bare anything!

A distended pouch of Douglas must indeed be quite uncomfortable.

suedonim.

oh pod... forever more

I'm only having one child - so maybe that's why I view age 4 as okay, I'm viewing it as a chunk from my whole life. Most of my friends are now bfing their second child - I am still going with my first - what is the difference?

Ds (currently 2.5) has got conjunctivitis, can't use drops as the bottle has a latex dropper (which he is allergic to), not letting me near him with the cream - and here's the clincher - too much of a small baby still to be able to reason with/bribe about this.

Few squirts of breastmilk - perfect.

He gives up when he gives up. I personally find it funny that in the toilet training and moving out of cot threads we are all advised to leave it as long as possible (3 would be considered very normal), but then a lot of the extended breastfeeding threads people have this mental cut off point of about 16-18 months.

Tis indeed mental (I know that's not what you meant, Bobbybob, but seemed apt )

Gosh, I drink another mammals milk I must be repugnant

Several of the rest of us have been called repugnant because of extended breastfeeding though ...

No, you haven't, someone said they found the thought of it repugnant, not the same thing at all.

TBH I was just a bit miffed at the comment about 'mammals milk' FGS don't all of us drink milk, is it so weird?

As for extended breastfeeding I am ambivalent.