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BREAST FEEDING A 3 YEAR OLD !

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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Holy crap she's hot. What's all the fuss about?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    I was looking at it from a biological view point
    mammals wean their young once they can eat we are mammals

    I'm looking at it biologically too. Mammals wean once it's natural to, once the young either receives everything it's body/brain indicates it needs, or the mother pushes and snaps away due to (literal) exhaustion.
    We wean once our culture tells us to, not when it's biologically natural to.


  • Administrators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,947 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Neyite


    I think if a kid can manage to open a fridge, there is no need for breastfeeding.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭TehDagsBass


    I don't really care one way or another, just wish it were kept to the privacy of the home and family and not something to bang your chest and push in other's faces about.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Neyite wrote: »
    I think if a kid can manage to open a fridge, there is no need for breastfeeding.

    There's no need for it whatsoever and seems to be more about feeding some need in the parent, than any real benefit to the child.


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  • Administrators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,947 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Neyite


    prinz wrote: »
    There's no need for it whatsoever and seems to be more about feeding some need in the parent, than any real benefit to the child.

    I'm sure its just a coincidence that a breastfeeding mother can eat like a horse and stays really slim because breastfeeding burns through so many calories?

    I knew someone who used to breasfeed her primary school going son - I think until he was about 7 or 8. He is now in his thirties and its a source of ridicule and constant embarassment for him that he is known as they boy who went home at lunch for the boob.


  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    it's much more natural for a human child to drink milk meant for cows and goats than it is to drink milk meant for humans. obviously.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭up for anything


    This thread! Like clockwork every three weeks. I breastfed three of my children till they were nearly three. So what! It wasn't sexual, it wasn't offensive or repulsive and it made us happy. Most people in my life didn't care one way or another which is how it should be.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    What people seem to be overlooking is that the mother has gone and put him on the cover of time doing it.
    Whatever about breastfeeding at that age; she didn't have to immortalise the oppertunity for him to be ridiculed, for a few moments in the spotlight.

    THATS whats wrong with the picture. Nice parenting skills.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Zulu wrote: »
    What people seem to be overlooking is that the mother has gone and put him on the cover of time doing it.
    Whatever about breastfeeding at that age; she didn't have to immortalise the oppertunity for him to be ridiculed, for a few moments in the spotlight.

    THATS whats wrong with the picture. Nice parenting skills.

    It is your own prejudices that inform that post. Why should there be any ridicule? Most of the world wouldn't look twice at it, apart from thinking **** I wished I looked like that.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭henryporter


    It is your own prejudices that inform that post. Why should there be any ridicule? Most of the world wouldn't look twice at it, apart from thinking **** I wished I looked like that.

    Or thinking **** I wished I was on that stool:P


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Or thinking **** I wished I was on that stool:P

    That's pretty normal unless of course you were hoping there'd be breast milk coming your way. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    Different folks, different strokes. It is quite common for women in some parts of the world to breastfeed children until they are 3-4 years old. In societies with little or no access to modern medicines, diet supplements and various things like that, it gives the child natural protection in the form of antibodies and a lot of other things necessary for healthy growth. And it keeps the mother out of the pudding club for at least a while, because she is unlikely to become pregnant while still breastfeeding.:):):)


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    I have no problem with this, they both look happy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    It is your own prejudices that inform that post.
    Of course it is, would you have expected anyone elses? :confused:
    Why should there be any ridicule?
    There shouldn't, but children and immature adults do lots of things they shouldn't.

    It's naive to suppose that "kids in the playground" won't tease.
    It's stupid to go out of your way to create that scenario.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    By your mother?


    Not my mother, possibly someone else's.
    That's cross suckling. Did your new mother let you suckle at first or did she reject you?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Zulu wrote: »
    There shouldn't, but children and immature adults do lots of things they shouldn't.

    It's naive to suppose that "kids in the playground" won't tease.
    It's stupid to go out of your way to create that scenario.

    Do you really think that any breastfeeding mother stands on a chair and shouts out, "Hey look, I'm about to feed my child". Most of us are reasonably discreet about it and don't go out of our way to create any scenarios. Older toddlers and children feeding don't tend to do so in public because they have already got a sense of how some adults perceive it. In fact I never had children of any age saying anything negative about it - they were more interested in the mechanics of the process if they weren't already familiar with it.

    You could say the same about any permutation of parenting. How could gay couples/single parents/May-Dec couples put their children through the slagging in the playground that they might get. If we can't teach our children that it's not the end of the world to stand out from the crowd we'll end up with a crowd of homogeneous, Disney reared clones.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭BornToKill


    Do you really think that any breastfeeding mother stands on a chair and shouts out, "Hey look, I'm about to feed my child".

    It's the three year old standing on the chair in the photo.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Do you really think that any breastfeeding mother stands on a chair and shouts....
    What are you banging on about?
    I was talking about the woman on the cover of TIME Magazine.


    (I'd say she's getting more coverage than a breastfeeding mother standing on a chair shouting - wouldn't you?)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    It's just weird IMO. The child is not an infant.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    Dudess wrote: »
    It's just weird IMO. The child is not an infant.

    Only because we have made it weird trough socialisation. I see two men kissing and I think it's weird. Doesn't mean that they do or that it is any of my fúcking business what they do.:D

    strangely though I see two girls guessing I think it's a perfectly natural expression of their lust.:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I'd defend to the last women who breastfeed babies in public using discretion, and lol at the morons who have a problem with it, but a walking/talking/doing child sucking their mother's tit, am I really being socialised?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Dudess wrote: »
    I'd defend to the last women who breastfeed babies in public using discretion, and lol at the morons who have a problem with it, but a walking/talking/doing child sucking their mother's tit, am I really being socialised?

    Could be worse. He could be drinking cow's milk straight from the pap!


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    my problem with it is :

    They're implying that people who don't 'attachment parent' are inferior mothers

    The way it's posed is clearly there to provoke a reaction. Why not just have a normal woman (not a sexy woman and a child who looks about 6) in a normal position?There's no closeness there, it looks like the opposite of attachment.

    That child is going to get an awful slagging when he's older.

    I have no problem with people breastfeeding for as long as both she and the child enjoy it, but lactation nazis who force their opinions on others give the side a really bad image.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Fenian Army


    Looks a lot older than 3


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Looks a lot older than 3

    I'm reminded of Lord Robert in Game of Thrones. He must have been 10.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    If the child can formally ask to suck on a tit then the child is too old to be doing so and that is my opinion.


  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    Dudess wrote: »
    I'd defend to the last women who breastfeed babies in public using discretion, and lol at the morons who have a problem with it, but a walking/talking/doing child sucking their mother's tit, am I really being socialised?

    I think yes. You say that like it's something bizarre or sexual. A mother's tit is for a child to suck. We have become socialised into thinking that it is something sexual.(Me too)

    Hunter gatherers breastfed until much later. In India today many mothers breastfeed until the child is 3. That we no longer do what our ancestors do is as a result of socialisation.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭dotsman


    Hunter-gatherers breastfeed their kids for minimum of 2 years and up to 5 years. This was likely the case for most of human evolution.

    People who think that's weird have a problem.

    It's only very recently where the done thing is breastfeed for 6 months then shove the child in a creche. Now that's weird.

    Hunter-gatherers also lived in caves and lived solely off wild animals and berries.

    If your neighbour lived like that, would you not also think that he/she is weird?

    It's 2012.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    dotsman wrote: »
    Hunter-gatherers also lived in caves and lived solely off wild animals and berries.

    If your neighbour lived like that, would you not also think that he/she is weird?

    It's 2012.

    My neighbour lives like that, but meh, there's a recession on:P


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