Views on if there's an age limit to breastfeeding in public

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I am totally for breastfeeding for as long as you are able / want to do it. So have no issues with extended breastfeeding (probably would put a cut off before 3 though)

I do however think that once a baby is no longer reliant on breast milk, and is totally weaned (probably around a year when it progresses to being a toddler) that it becomes a far more private affair between mother and toddler and should remain in the home (morning and night feeds)

So at what stage does a baby no longer need milk during the day? I think from a year. I think from a year is too old to offer a breast in public. And think especially if a toddler can walk, talk, pull up your top and accept a beaker then I think that's too old to breastfeed in public

your opinion is?

...retractable claws,......opposable toes

yes and I for one am grateful - laughter is the best medicine

can't stand smugness!

no (proper) alcohol in that either...

Can't drink the hard stuff when I'm on MN. My typing goes all Codesque.

and those eyes like chameleon has, anyone know what you call them. Dh & I are having a wicked discussion here on the merits of various animal traits, skills etc. Humans are overated we've decided.

well I'm going for a cup of tea and chorley cake that I was going to have watching Selling Houses at 8 o'oclock and its now 10.40!

Isn't there some mumsnet law that threads degenerate after a certain point in the evening once people have been drinking/too tired to string words together coherently/serious debaters given up on circular arguments and gone to bed?

I believe the correct term is googly, binkybetsy.

I don't do that going round in circles trying to change everyones' mind thing - life's too short. I say my piece and bog off or I throw the thread into total disarray with my silliness.

Eeeh bah gum...enjoy your Chorley cake, petal.

PMSL moo!!
Was feeling a little bitched upon there.

Nah, they're your kids - so long as you're not beating them with an organic cucumber and locking them in the shed I don't much care what you do with 'em!

Cheers! How many other threads do you degenerate then?

Yes, what a shameful waste of good salad vegetables that would be.

Surely it's just a matter of cultural taste and what you find 'usual'. We are not used to seeing children older than toddlers being b/fed so it has developed a yuk factor common with most unfamiliar aspects of human diet. I believe Chinese people (like Marthamoo) find the idea of drinking cows milk as revolting as drinking someone else's saliva. But none of it does anyone any harm, does it, and trying to make some kind of rational argument to defend your irrational /subjective 'taste' just leads to being judgmental.

Trying to make a case for it based on 'need' is a non-starter - no baby 'needs' breastmilk - otherwise I wouldn't exist. And as for this sex/food argument for breasts, dp and I never found that his interest was compromised, and I'm f**d if after how many years of feminism I'm going to see my breasts fought over by two males!
You might (and clearly do) harbour all sorts of suspicions about the motives of people who bf children. I myself would probably look twice because it's unusual, -but it isn't my business, it does me no harm and it's rude and judgemental to make sweeping decsions about other mother's choices.

Practically a MN Philosophy quoting offence.

Please stop talking about chocolate, I don't have any...

I'm utterly confused now. And not Chinese.

You're not chinese!!!

Or was it that like Chinese people I find the idea of drinking cow's milk repulsive?

That wasn't me! It was binkybetsy and whatsername.

I like the milk of the cow. Well, I don't drink it but I like the yoghurts and the cheese and the (milk) chocolate. Kids drink it. And I have it in coffee sometimes.

Can we go back to being silly now, I just cracked open another dairy-free beer.

One in five babies is Chinese, I believe. But not me. I was one of the other four.

Sorry - it took me about a year to make that post.
or maybe longer even than I fed Ds.
Aren't you Chinese, M'oo?
When you think abuot it , it is bit disgusting to drink the bodily fluids of animals, isn't it? that's why they need to be heavily disguised - in dairy milk, for e'g

No, definitely not Chinese. I can go and check in the mirror if you like.

Marthamoo, you drinkycrow you. I'm watching channel 5, some cosmetic surgery thing is coming on. Some bloke had his face peeled of the other day....as you do!

Oh is that the live cosmetic surgery programme? Ugh no.

Don't you just hate it when you come across a thread like this when it's already dying/dead?

I so love to get into the whole extended b/feeding thing...

well I'm sure there will be a next time!