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Extended Breastfeeding Programme next week.....!!

196 replies

collision · 28/01/2006 13:04

A mother is still breastfeeding her 8 yr old daughter!

Will try and watch it tho I think it might make me feel ill.

There is also a woman who tandem feeds her 4 yr old twins!

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mrspitt · 28/01/2006 13:11

I just read that womans story in NOW magazine and was pretty amazed at some of the things she said. I'm all for breastfeeding but 8 and 9 year olds are frankly too old for it IMO.
Can't wait for the program!

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collision · 28/01/2006 13:28

I agree. I BF both mine but once they got teeth I had to stop!

Psycologically it cannot be good for the children IMO.

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harpsichordenvy · 28/01/2006 13:49

if it makes you feel ill I suggest you don't watch it
it's not a freak show

FrannyandZooey · 28/01/2006 13:54

You feel that breastfeeding a child who has teeth is psychologically bad for the child?

harpsichordenvy · 28/01/2006 14:01

yes that damaging teeth/nipple clash
they never recover really

FrannyandZooey · 28/01/2006 14:04

Oh I don't know, ds's teeth seem fine...

monkeytrousers · 28/01/2006 14:37

I just read in the paper that one of them wants to get breastfeeding onto page 3 - isn't the point to STOP fetishising the breast as an exclusively sexual object?

hercules · 28/01/2006 15:06

Dd's teeth are very sharp as she is an extreme night grinder as the dentist tells me. Never felt them whilst bf though.

Mud · 28/01/2006 15:09

it is a bloody freak show - breatfeeding an 8 year old is abusinve and sick

Mud · 28/01/2006 15:09

and a 4 yar old not much better

hercules · 28/01/2006 15:10

I am not going to watch it as it sounds like it is going to be sensationalist and do extended bf no good.

hercules · 28/01/2006 15:10

Oh really mud. I must be a freak then. It's a shame as the other thread on mumsnet was civilised.

hercules · 28/01/2006 15:11

feel like I should point out the worldwide age for weaning is over 4 but ho hum.

Mud · 28/01/2006 15:12

civilisaed thread on extended breastfeeign - I don't believe you

harpsichordenvy · 28/01/2006 15:13

oh go on hercules it might make you nicely cross
like reading my MILs Daily Mail

hercules · 28/01/2006 15:13

It was last time I looked. Why dont you go tarnish it?

hercules · 28/01/2006 15:15

I saw the clip advertising it last night of a ten year old bf. I agree with what a poster said on the other thread that it would be good if they did a programme on 6 mnths - 1 year bf as even that age hasnt been accepted in this country yet.

harpsichordenvy · 28/01/2006 15:15

yes
no one has accused of of sexual abuse yet
that;s always a nice touch

hercules · 28/01/2006 15:15

I thought that too.

hercules · 28/01/2006 15:16

there's still time though.....

or what about the child being clingy...

Mud · 28/01/2006 15:16

people are entiltid to have a different opinion and thought process to you you know. i don't get why ther are some subjects here that are so taboo here that only those who agree wholeheartedly are alowed to post. I am a firm believer in breastfeeding and have breadstfed 3 children to around the year mark. I am allowed to think there is a limit to it and express that view and psychjologically yes I think it is abusive at 8 to be breastfeeding

harpsichordenvy · 28/01/2006 15:17

yes
it will MAKE a child clingy
breastmilk is nutritionally worthless after a year
god we could just do it ourselves, save them all the trouble

Mud · 28/01/2006 15:17

oh i forgot breastfeeding is blody sacrsosant isn't it

hercules · 28/01/2006 15:17

err you also said 4. Trouble is that means there must be a hell of a lot abused kids in the world according to that!

harpsichordenvy · 28/01/2006 15:17

no mud
apparently it is abusive and sick