ace in your face: kiwimoogle84: reveal101: The whole idea really is idiotic. Once your kid starts eating solid food, they no longer need to be breastfeeding, and any extension on that is simply to placate the mother's insecurities.

This.

I think it would create confusion with a male child. I could see this ending like Oedipus Rex, sadly. Could be the reason some men grow up to have lactation or diaper fetishes.

When your kids have molars, or are old enough to ask for a boob, now you're doing it for yourself, not for your kid. I know it sheds a lot of weight/calories from a new mom's body, but come on. This is just a different version of helicopter parenting. Ugh.

My kid could say "boobie" at 6 months and had molars at 9 SOOOO.... your a farking idiot. Also, I was breastfed til. 3 and don't remember it at all and I do have other memories from before that. Breast feeding isn't a big deal to a child who has done it their whole life.
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reveal101: The whole idea really is idiotic. Once your kid starts eating solid food, they no longer need to be breastfeeding, and any extension on that is simply to placate the mother's insecurities.

Oh well thank you random person who doesn't know shiat and hasn't read the advice of the WHO.

The WHO says up to 23 months, they tack on a "and beyond" to not make women like this feel bad.

Their diagrams say up to 23 months. with solid (mashed) foods being introduced at 6 months

http://www.who.int/features/qa/21/en/index.html

I'm aware. Saying that a baby shouldn't breastfeed after 6 months (the dawn of solid food) is effing retarded. And most people don't feed their babies for prolonged periods because they enjoy it, they do it because the BABY enjoys it.

18 month olds also enjoy staying up late and eating sugary snacks and sleeping in their parents' bed and running an entire roll of toilet paper through the house and sneaking away to cl ...

Lunaville: Technoir: "Hello, Mother. If you would be so kind as to proffer your bosom for my snack satisfaction, I would be most appreciative of said lactation."

Rather than be dishonest via omission, I will confess that I nursed my children until they were four and five years old. This line, however, was hilarious. I think it may have been the funniest comment on the entire thread.

Lunaville: kiwimoogle84: Lunaville: Technoir: "Hello, Mother. If you would be so kind as to proffer your bosom for my snack satisfaction, I would be most appreciative of said lactation."

Rather than be dishonest via omission, I will confess that I nursed my children until they were four and five years old. This line, however, was hilarious. I think it may have been the funniest comment on the entire thread.

Then I have an honest question for you- why so late? I would think once you enroll them in t-ball and they're potty trained it would be over with the baby food. Really just curious, as it's relevant to the thread. I mean no disrespect, I just don't understand it. My niece only nursed a year before she wanted more interesting food and wouldn't nurse anymore.

I was convinced it would greatly benefit their health. I had read that children who were nursed until ages 4 to 6 years of age were more likely to have straight teeth, were less likely to have asthma, were more likely to have a higher than average IQ (due to trace nutrients received) and even that they were somewhat less likely, statistically speaking, to get leukemia.

My children did get fewer ear infections and minor colds and flu than their bottle fed peers in my family and community. Their baby teeth were perfect, but when the adult teeth began to come in, they were unbelievably crooked. I had never seen such a mess. I was disappointed.

By the time they were four and five, I was seriously ready to wean them, but they were showing no signs of self-weaning. A friend of mine confided that her son had been diagnosed with leukemia before he was weaned. She said "If you're still nursing these kids because you think you're keeping them from getting something like leukemia; go ahead and wean them and don't feel guilty about it."

So, I weaned them. At first it was awful, because they did not want to be weaned. And I knew Moms who had done the self-weaning thing who said things like "She came home from kindergarten one ...