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

[Mud]

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?

It is perfectly possible for toddlers who breastfeed to be VERY independent - just as it's perfectly possible for toddlers who aren't breastfed to be EXTREMELY clingy. More to do with the child than whether or not they nurse - and there are some schools of thought that reckon breastfed toddlers are MORE independent than those who aren't.

sigh, aloha

Quick, somebody arrest bundle for letting her dd make an association between feeding and sleeping. I'm sure shes the only poster on MN ever to do such a dreadful thing

aloha:

Hmm...breastfeeding is antisocial...OMG.

(, tamum)

they are in that they make other people feel discomfitted

(am going to have to go soon - want to watch spellbound, thanks for interesting discussion)

discomfitted. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

nee-naw...oh no, they're coming for me...

It's a real shame that attitudes contributed to your giving up, Aloha.

As it goes i would have given up ages ago if ds wasn't asthmatic but that is also beside the point. I'd better practice my "like it or die" face before our next visit to the UK.

actually tamum an association between feeding and sleeping isn't great for a child to develop is it?

Not all breastfed babies/toddlers have that association, Mud. Mine doesn't.

It's not ideal but it's hardly a hanging offence, and hardly rare. If bundle's dd goes into her cot awake then there's no problem at all IME.

mud, i think that's true if the child falls asleep whilst feeding.

Shall I feed ds and swear loudly while lighting up a fag?

Please do SA

better ask your husband first

No parenting activity is a hanging offence - not even dummies

My daughter associates sleeping with toast / milk / bath / stories / prayers / dark room / pyjamas.

Where do they fit into the heiarchy of bad associations?!? Who's to say?

not pyjamas mp

Spellbound has started

byeeee

DS associates sleeping at night with his teddy. Now that I am worried about - they've stopped making his favourite teddy...

I thought the prayers might be controversial...

sigh. that was lovely, almost as good as reading the Daily Mail

URGH, you don't want to develop an association between reading and the Daily Mail...

only obviously do this at work, don't buy it