TTC since 03/2011
BFP#1 spontaneous conception! 4/28/12 natural MC on 5/9/12
IUI#1 with clomid and trigger on 9/12/12
BFP#2 on 9/26/12 EDD 6/5/13
Beta #1 143 14dpo Beta #2 343 16dpo Beta #3 920 18dpo
Please, Please, Please stick baby!
Baby Mackenzie born 5/28/2013!
Re: It creeps me out....
Jonah Stephen born at 39w on 11/3/2011 Naomi Isabel born at 37w 5d on 5/27/2013
TTC since 03/2011
BFP#1 spontaneous conception! 4/28/12 natural MC on 5/9/12
IUI#1 with clomid and trigger on 9/12/12
BFP#2 on 9/26/12 EDD 6/5/13
Beta #1 143 14dpo Beta #2 343 16dpo Beta #3 920 18dpo
Please, Please, Please stick baby!
Baby Mackenzie born 5/28/2013!
oh def! Santa still needs his milk...
TTC since 03/2011
BFP#1 spontaneous conception! 4/28/12 natural MC on 5/9/12
IUI#1 with clomid and trigger on 9/12/12
BFP#2 on 9/26/12 EDD 6/5/13
Beta #1 143 14dpo Beta #2 343 16dpo Beta #3 920 18dpo
Please, Please, Please stick baby!
Baby Mackenzie born 5/28/2013!
Duh. He has to have milk to go with all those cookies.
BFP #1: 6.26.12 EDD: 2.11.13 missed m/c: 7.31.12 @ 12 weeks
BFP #2: 10.1.12 EDD: 6.11.13 Born 6.13.13
The average age of weaning globally is 4.5. That's average. Some people do way less, and some do more. While nursing to 4 is NMS, I won't knock it. Believe me, nursing isn't about mom. It's 100% about the child. DD just weaned at 17 months. I'm happy to have my boobs to myself again. If she had continued to want to nurse I would have let her. Notice how I "said" that, if SHE wanted to continue.
Before having a child I said BF past 1 "freaked me out". Then 1 came and went. 2 seemed easily the "age". Maybe this one will nurse till 3. I have friends who have children nursing at 3 and 4. It's not weird at all. It's not mother centered at all. Those children are developing wonderfully and are very independent. It's not like they're attached to the boob all day like a newborn. It's here and there.
The antibodies and nutrients don't vanish at a certain age. Sure, they can be fine without it but if the relationship is working for them and that child is still getting the benefits of it.
https://kellymom.com/ages/older-infant/ebf-benefits/ <I suck and can't make it clicky.
I'm not riding in here nipple nazi hat on and b!tching ya'll out. It's just a very misunderstood thing. Two years ago I was in the same frame of mind.
Little M 6/16/2013
Angel baby 5/17/2014
To each their own. Each family finds what works for them and every child is different, some may need to nurse longer than others.
I think it's weird that someone would go on Dr Phil - sounds like they are just trying to get attention.
I think Dr.Phil is creepy.
But I also think BFing at that age is too long. By 3-4, children are learning (& should already have a good foundation) of preschool and Kindergarden readiness skills, and self-feeding is one of them. But that's just my opinion. I'm a FTM and as much as I don't think I'll BF that long, I've never been there so who knows.
one of family friends BF her youngest untilmhenwas well into school, like 6-7 yo. She always made comments about him being her baby and not wanting him to be independent of her. In that case, I'd say it was about mom and not the child.
I'm not new. I just hate The Bump.
This. I guess I shouldn't be shocked at some of the comments.
Little M 6/16/2013
Angel baby 5/17/2014
One of the PPs touched on it, but what I don't really understand is - at 4 the child is on (or should be on?) solid foods. I haven't gotten that far in my baby books yet, but I'm fairly certain they shouldn't be on formula at that age, so why is the criteria different if it's breast milk? I'm honestly curious, it just seems like conflicting information.
But I agree with OP, it seems a bit old to still be breast feeding. It's hard to imagine a child in pre-school learning independence, letters, numbers, reading/etc then going home and breastfeeding. To each their own, but I do not think that is for me at all.
M/C 7/8/12
Perfect baby boy born 7/8/13
BFP 8/20/14 EDD 4/27/15 It's a GIRL!!
This this this. If boobs creep you out don't ever go to Europe or South America, because those ladies nurse in public with out covers (GASP!) everywhere. Toddlers and to some extent preschoolers too.
Of COURSE the child is going to be on solid foods! Did no one read my first post? Formula is completely different then BM. BM has so, so much more in it then formula. There are antibodies and nutrients you don't get from formula.
A child at that age would still be drinking a good amount of cow's milk, right? Why is drinking milk from a totally different species all together not weird, but a human child drinking human milk is?
Little M 6/16/2013
Angel baby 5/17/2014
When you put it that way it makes sense. For me, it's just hard to imagine how the logistics work. Most kids are drinking milk while they are eating, so are they taking a few bites of food and then asking mom for a "sip"?
M/C 7/8/12
Perfect baby boy born 7/8/13
BFP 8/20/14 EDD 4/27/15 It's a GIRL!!
I get what you're saying. From what I've seen no. It's random times during the day. Or if they've been hurt kind of thing.
Little M 6/16/2013
Angel baby 5/17/2014
Ok this makes a lot more sense to me. I don't think I will be one of those moms, but every mom has to make the choice that is best for her child and her family.
M/C 7/8/12
Perfect baby boy born 7/8/13
BFP 8/20/14 EDD 4/27/15 It's a GIRL!!
I wasn't either but I can't stand misinformation. =]
Little M 6/16/2013
Angel baby 5/17/2014
Truest statement in this thread lol.
When I worked in food service there was a mother and her kid that came in to eat. The kid was probably around 4. He'd nurse, and then order his kids meal. It was strange to me (and most of us that worked there). *Definitely* NMS, but I wouldn't give anybody a hard time for choosing to do that.
DS born 6/2013
By 4 they should be off a bottle as well, and hopefully moving away from a sippy cup. I guess I just look at this issue as more of a developmental one. If a 3 or 4 year old can drink from a sippy or open cup as well, I don't see the harm. They just need to have the other swallowing patterns down other than nipple. It's just not something I would do personally.
I love you.
Little M 6/16/2013
Angel baby 5/17/2014
ITA.
CJ 05/29/2013
BFP 5/21/10, Missed m/c 7/5/10 at 11w3d (baby measured 7wks), D&C 7/7/10
Aug/Sept 2010 - CD3&10 b/w & u/s, genetic testing, SA, HSG, & Lap/Hyst to remove septum
12/09/10 BFP -- 7/05/11 DS born at 33w5d. Came home after 23d in NICU at 37w0d
June 2012 - TTC #2! -- 10/05/12 BFP -- 5/23/13 DS2 born at 37w1d! Yay full term!
Surprise BFP 6/25/14 LO#3 due Feb2015!
I couldnn't put my finger on what exactly bothered me, but this is definitely it. BF is a little bit of a sore subject with me (I had planned on extending BF, but my supply tanked and had to switch to ff at 3.5/4-ish months. It still makes me tear up to this day.)
Agree totally with SouthSideDrea.
The ignorance just overflows in this thread.
Oh, FFS. I can't even get into how insulting this is to women or how much of a disservice your opinion does to breastfeeding, so I'll just make one comment: The insinuation that breastfeeding is ever about the mother's selfish needs or desires is absolutely disgusting.
As I'm sitting here nursing my child who fell asleep... And he freaking bit me in his sleep...
Not only is it absolutely disgusting it proves these posters ignorance. Yeah, I just got bit with basically puppy teeth FOR ME.
this exactly
SURPRISE! BFP: 12/2014 - EDD: 8/13/15
We made plans and God laughed
DS: BFP: 9/30/12 - EDD: 6/9/13
Radley Quinn was fashionably late via induction on 6/17/13
I'm scared my kid will be 3 and breast feeding while we are watching TV and see something on TV that they want and bite down on my nipple out of excitement and rip my nip off.
there goes future BF'ing
SURPRISE! BFP: 12/2014 - EDD: 8/13/15
We made plans and God laughed
DS: BFP: 9/30/12 - EDD: 6/9/13
Radley Quinn was fashionably late via induction on 6/17/13
THIS!
SURPRISE! BFP: 12/2014 - EDD: 8/13/15
We made plans and God laughed
DS: BFP: 9/30/12 - EDD: 6/9/13
Radley Quinn was fashionably late via induction on 6/17/13
I'm overwhelmed by the ignorance.