Toddler kicked out of preschool for being breastfed.

[toddlerbob]

I will have to insert the link as the next message, but basically the thread title says it all.

this is the story

and what exactly has it got to do with them? they kicked him out for that!!?

I didn't see it on the news, but all my friends gave me some more detail. Apparently it was a Montessori preschool and she was bfing in the cloakroom. Their argument is that they have strict rules about when and where children can eat and drink. I think he was excluded when mother refused to obey this rule.

toddlerbob .... I saw it on the news last night and apparently head of the pre school has been quoted as saying that nine months is the maximum anyone should breastfeed ....

I'm speechless. Why on earth would she say that?

Do you have any good links to the story, I can only find the one I posted and it annoys me I don't have more detail. Given I'm now my friends "novelty breastfeeder" I feel I should be informed.

Sad part is I was at one of those pre school play warehouse things and started to wonder if I'd get kicked out for giving bob a drink with his lunch. I've never felt like that before.

Oh TB ... don't feel like that ... you are doing a great job with bob ...
Although I can't envisage b/feeding DD past 12 months I totally believe in personal choice in these things ... and it makes me really cross to hear about stories like this ...
I'll look for a link ...

Thank Ghosty, I'm over it now. Ds is only the size of a 9 month old so that makes a difference to how likely I am to get hassled. I never thought I would be bfing past a year, but he's still so little and baby like that I've not really considered him "too big". Also all my bottle feeding friends are going through hassles dropping bottles and trying to get onto cups that actually it seems much easier. I have the only baby in my mother's group that sleeps all night, which lays one myth about breastfeeding to rest.

Toddlerbob - you are doing well, don't feel self-conscious, though I do know that can be difficult when babies get bigger. You are clearly doing the right thing by your son.
I do think this thread illustrates well that it's not just bottlefeeders who get the 'funny looks', after all.

Dont stresstb.I fed dss till he was 4 and knew several peoplke who fed longer including dh.
Few people object to children having bottles and dummies at that age and rightly so. the y are after all substitute boobs, you're just giving the real thing. Dh and I could never understand how people managed with upset or ill children if they werent bf. It made allour lifes so much easier and less stressful.

We ave lots of allergies in the family and ds had excema so I was going to do anything I could to give him the best chance and stuff anyone who thought I was doing something wrong. I have to say though i can barely remember even getting any neg reactions although i had no need to feed him publically past a certain age and he was in nursery full time from 3 anyway.
People in bf rooms were more curious seeing a toddler feed rather than critical.

hmmmm if it goes to court twill be interesting watching. If she did it against the rules then maybe, but if she had given the child a cup of milk would she have been excluded?
Do not think so....
Disgusting really that in this day and age you cannot be free enough to feed your own child, would they rather he had a bag of Cheezels and can of fizz?
arrgghh when I b/f in nz my son was 16 mths when he stopped, but he was a VERY strapping toddler and I got some funny looks when he'd finish feeding and then leg it across to the slides etc at the park. (in his doc martens might I add hee hee)
I have found uk much more inhibited about public feeding tbh....

My cousin was breastfeeding her ds2 when he was three. She only stopped when my mum joked about her poking her breast through the bars of the school gate at dinner time.

I do remember now having comments from my mum like he'll be doing that at university! As if children still bottlefeed, have a dummy or do many things as an adult that they did when they were 3!

Your mum is probably right though. I suspect he might well be doing that at university - just not with his mum

lol Freckle.
My son would never do such a thing

Well having got pregnant with number 3- I have told ds2 that tonight is the last night for booby. Ever! (he has a bed time feed still). Bedtime stories start tomorrow night (he was 2 in January). My mother gave up being horrified a while ago

Musn't bfeed past 9 months? Why on earth not? HOw strange!

pmsl, flip

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But I love the assumption that the discomfort of the others in her group is her problem, not theirs!

I'd have made sure i went to all the meetings and carried on breastfeeding there just to annoy the hell out of them.

I am sorry but WHY
he can drink out of a cup!

I'm sure you can stand on your head coddy, but would you do it just to make someone else feel more comfortable?

No i just think 3 is excessive.

No i just think 3 is excessive.

I fed to 4 coddy - what does that make me?