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

[lisalisa]

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awen - don't think malorytowers is a troll.

hunker - see, over 800 now!

I wounder how many of the 'experts' bf themselves and to what age?

Roosmum, I think that if I stopped breastfeeding now, DS would be quite confused. He'd get over it, of course he would, but why would I confuse him like that?! He's only ever known me as somebody who breastfeeds him, so until he decides he doesn't want that to happen any more, he can do it I am confident that he will stop before he's collecting his pension, so that's great!

ohh really roosmaum. Her post sounded like one .. can i just yell troll anyway? ds tends to yell bogeys for no reason so i might as well yell troll

the hting is, the question of this thread is 'Breastfeeding till the age of 4 - what do you think?' and people are expressing that. some people will think its wrong, odd, disgusting, and others wont know, arent againsty the idea but can t imagine doing it them selves, and some have done it. its takes all sorts to make the world go round.

It does, Misdee, and thank goodness for that!

It's the misinformation that I mind, from "professionals".

Errrrr.can't you start another thread? I love reading it,but blimey,have put away half my laundry in the time it takes to download (or whatever you call it...)

No need to stop HM. I can't even remember when my first three stopped. With each one I noticed, one day, that he or she hadn't fed for ages. Seamless. I can't understand why anyone would want to curtail such a useful and mutually beneficial parenting tool as this.

hunker, tbh the idea of causing ds any confusion/upset is far far worse to me than whatever some uninformed bigoted could think of me feeding him some multi-vit power-liquid, made especially & exclusively for him (tho i wd milk donate if it were available locally to me ).

hope the various nannies are clueing up on WHO bf info as we speak

Babies over 12 months "need cowsmilk", said NurseyJo... ROFL!!! Oh wow, that is precious. No wonder this thread has gone on so long.

fqz, sad isn't it!

oooh, can't wait to find out (one day) what MIL will make of extended bf, it's almost worth it for that alone

RM

I'm breastfeeding and I'm pregnant - now that raises eyebrows among health professionals...!

PMSL at MIL roosmum.

NurseyJo, you still haven't read the link, have you?

No one is saying babies do not need other foods alongside breastmilk once they get to about 6 months. This is current guidance. But you said 'breastmilk has little nutritional value after 12 months' and thereafter babies should have cows milk or Step 2 milk (I think you mean follow on formula by that term). You said this was what the department of health stated.

At no point in your most recent post do you indicate you understand how wrong you were.

I don't doubt you are a good supporter of bf....but that is not enough. You need to be informed about weaning, you need to stop saying things which are incorrect, and you need to have the honesty to say 'I was wrong. I have informed myself and I know now the DH did not ever say anything of the kind.'

HM my first two kids had 15 month gap. I fed throughout pregnancy and tandem fed after birth. It was fantastic. There were absolutely no problems whatsoever.

I have to say I had very supportive mws and dh which really helps.

why do people make diect comments at people they don't even know??? ( , drinking ????more like crap typing) my OPINION is based on no-one in particular just i believe this thread title is WRONG and BF at 4 is GROSS!!

Every one is entitled to their opinion/11

Mine will have a 21 months gap - am expecting to be thought of as a lentil-wearing, yoghurt-knitting hippy when I request a homebirth too

NOTHING could be further from the truth though!

Nannyjo, you're making direct comments at people you don't even know though. There are people on this thread who have breastfed that long and longer.

All power to you Hunker. I lean towards the lentil stuffer, but you wouldn't know it to look at me. I think we all need to embrace the lentil-stuffer within at times.

hunker - & he doesn't mind at all, ie milk hasn't changed or anything like that??

someone posted on here abt extended bf being a 'marker' used by HV to monitor (???) families. our HV is actually v. nice & supports bf, as was midwife that did home visits (& likened formula to "poison", her words , when i was having problems getting ds to bf) & tho i don't care really when all's said & done, i'm not keen on being 'marked out' by HV as doing something....odd, unusual etc, that needs to be monitored. humph. do they actually do this??

Anyone care to post a link to the WHO stuff on the NJ thread? Can't be arsed to register on there

Perhaps NurseyJo will be kind enough to post it...it would be useful

She might even read it.

Though I am not taking bets.

RM, he doesn't seem to mind - he's gradually feeding less and less, but that's to be expected as he gets older - he may redouble his interest again in a couple of months time, he may wean - who knows?

I posted about HVs using extended bfeeding as a marker - I'd heard it somewhere. There's something in the archives about it too - can't face digging through tonight though! IIRC it's only something they'd use if there were other concerns re the family, but who knows with some of the ignorant HVs out there?! I'm sure it doesn't happen often (if at all) because we'd have heard about it, on here if nowhere else!