Any1 notice others are uncomfortable with breastfeeding toddlers?

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I have an 18m old who breastfeeds. She needs it to sleep, may wake up thirsty for some milk, feeds multiple times in the day. It's her desicion to stop, whenever it happens I'll be happy she got to choose when.

I've become so disentised from boobs and sometimes find myself saying to family, think she wants some boob. I dont think about what I'm saying, im just so used to it. But for some reason it makes people so uncomfortable now that she is a toddler and not a baby.
For example, we were at her nans and she was walking around and said mamma boo boo. Everyone jumped in to say, no she said baby and wanted her doll. When the breastfeeding convo comes up, everyone's chatting about when they stopped etc I'll just make convo and say yh.. ill let her decide when to stop and the room goes silent. If LO mentions the word boob the room goes silent. A topic they didnt mind has become something that makes them uncomfortable and sometimes disgusted, I see it all over their face. My family couldnt care less and actively tell me it's an amazing thing, yet none of them were able to breastfeed and those so uncomfortable with the topic did or have watched close family do it.
Anyone else notice others become uncomfortable with you breastfeeding because your child is a toddler?

I agree @Mamajunebugjones and I’ve never said otherwise - I just think posting about the amazing health protections of bfing but failing to mention in the scheme of things they make only a very tiny difference to a person’s overall health is misleading and needlessly upsets people who couldn’t bf. What’s wrong with that?

@Realyorkshiretea I find there is definitely an unreasonable amount of emotion placed on the topic though; a thread I was on ages ago someone shared a study and quoted something like ‘one bottle of formula changes the gut flora… ’ which is neither a positive or negative statement.. just neutral and factual.

Then there were comments with women absolutely raging at the poster.. ‘How dare she suggest they’ve ruined their babies digestive system’

Not what was said at all - I wouldn’t mind hazarding a guess that almost everyone on the planet has had dairy at some point in their lives and therefore ‘changed their gut flora’ so why the emotion when talking about formula? I certainly don’t weep into my cheese board.

@FTEngineerM exactly! I’m a facts’n’figures lady, I have zero issue with facts which don’t happen to benefit me, but some people really do. I understand, bfing is effort and not easy for some so people who do it want to believe there is a huge benefit for their kids at the end. And everyone wants to believe they’ll be ‘more ok’ than others because they did X Y and Z. But I don’t think that’s a justification for scaring people witless about cancer etc when the benefit of bfing really is very small. Which equally doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing, far from it.

Realyorkshiretea- I was posting about arguments being made about breastfeeding toddlers. I don’t think this thread has suggested giving mums of toddlers a hard time for not breastfeeding?
In fact I saw the opposite- giving mothers who choose to do extended breastfeeding through toddler years a hard time.