Breastfeeding at 8 years old.

[Jbr]

A woman in the US has been warned for breastfeeding an 8 year old boy.

Sorry, her partner is a GP and thinks she is "irrational" about breastfeeding. Anyway, certainly the "him" referred to her partner.

Sorry - didn't realise you were talking about me!
My husband is a GP, and he knows academically that what I am doing about breastfeeding is right, but i think he finds it a little emotionally difficult, especially as I have suffered from PND and he thinks that the breastfeeding puts too much of a strain on me.
BUT he is prepered to let me do what I feel is right for ds and me, and although he might question extended breastfeeding he would not try to stop me.
In my experience, men have some problems in understanding the breastfeeding relationship, and I am lucky to have a bloke who wont interfere, although he will question if it is necessary.

Your dh sounds pretty supportive as far as GPs go. IME most GPs do not rate B/F as having much importance. My own GP, with whom I have a great relationship knows bu**er all about B/F which he admits. We used to have regular spats about it because I felt he sould refer on to someone with that knowledge instead of saying to mums to put the baby on the bottle because it was 'easier'.
In fact he really upset me with ds no.2 when he was admitted to hospital age 6 months with meningitis. I had ended up getting mastitis because of ds not feeding for a full day and I had let myself get overfull. I got an emergency appointment with him for antibiotics and his advice was to stop because I had been doing it long enough anyway and why hassle myself at this time. He had no concept of how important feeding was to me.
Anyway - he gave me the antibiotics and I revelled in telling him that the consultant told me ds recovered so well because the B/F helped him fight the infection.
Sorry - a ramble about GPs this afternoon

susanmt, I know what you mean about men's attitudes towards bfeeding..my dh went on (he thought subtley!) for months "isn't it time to stop?" and I carried on until dd was nearly 2 because we both liked it and it fitted in with our day, the milk was still there but I'm sure most of the end stuff was about comfort and closeness. in this day & age lots of people feel frightened of saying that, but the longer I bfed the more relaxed & comfortable I felt about it. In the end I gave up (it was just an evening feed) when dh was away on business and I don't think he noticed for weeks after he got back! me & dd decided together, without his disapproving looks!

How do people feel about storing milk?

It seems to be either you bottle feed with formula or you give breast milk from the breast.

I noticed the front page has a little hint about freezing milk. It can be stored for 3 months but mine was never there long enough. Days at the most.

How do people feel about storing milk?

It seems to be either you bottle feed with formula or you give breast milk from the breast.

I noticed the front page has a little hint about freezing milk. It can be stored for 3 months but mine was never there long enough. Days at the most.

Because I knew I would not be giving formula and was returning to work I expressed on a regular basis from early on. My last 2 babies were in SCBU and initially could not be fed so the milk I expressed got sent home with dh and he froze it in EBM bags and bottles. Once we were home I expressed at various times, collecting small amounts over the day then freezing it in about 4oz size amounts. I did have lots of milk in the freezer when I went back to work or when I went out. I also expresed milk for babies in a specialist SCBU that had a milk bank. They stored the milk for 6 months and it was used especially for preterm and ill babies whose mothers did not have enough milk of their own.
The more you express the more efficient you get and it doesn't take very long.

JBR, I was unable to breastfeed ds as he had a cleft lip and palate. I was so determined that he would be breastfed that I expressed milk for him and he was exclusively fed on expressed milk for 10 months. I have only recently come across one other person who has expressed long term and there seems to be very little information about it.

Thanks folks.

Jenny that's what I was thinking. There isn't much information about it.

It means it's much easier to share the responsibility of feeding the baby as well.

A breast pump in Boots was about £19 if I remember. Seems an eternity ago now! I have no idea how much it would cost now.

You might be able to hire an electric breast pump - ask your midwife or maternity unit. I did it by hand ie. without a pump. I tried electric and hand pumps but found I got more milk - and more consistently - doing it by hand. It's all about personal choice.

Another point, as far as the sexual thing goes. I was always quite uncomfortable expressing in front of people - even people I knew well, as in effect, the stroking to express seemed like a far more sexual thing than actually breastfeeding. I have happily breastfed my dd in public.

jbr - if you go to search at the top of the page and type in hand expressing you will get lost of info from other threads.
I hand expressed as well because it was faster for me. One of my other friends swears by her Avent Isis hand pump which she found really efficient and easy to use. I think they are around the £20-£25 mark

I'm not a birth Mum but I thought breastfeeders need to have a strict diet and be free of cold and flu etc. How is Mum meant to endulge in alcohol and prescription medicine etc if she is feeding her young for 32 trimesters?

Oldest ZOMBIE in town.

Blimey 2002. Nine years before I discovered MN. Weirdest thread bump ever.

So your baby mother smokes crack meth and benzine pipanine (aborted baby clinical waste) hey tommy boy

I'm sorry tommy I first thought u were slaying me, but, at second thought I see you were slaying the 8 year old bb mum who has cradle craving issues and can't replace them with sex or m'n'm's

. This thread is FIFTEEN years old!

Wtf are you on about Daisy, this story is 15 years old hence Zombie thread!!!

Oh this was when I joined mumsnet.
Old blast from the past names here.

Oh my bad I didn't know zombie meant dead on arrival 😂

What an odd thing to say Daisy WTF ? Baby mother? Aborted waste? Wow. That's fucked up
And did you really need to resurrect a 15 yo thread?)!

What is a bb mum?