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What age to stop breastfeeding?

  • 08-04-2012 11:33PM
    #1
    Kimia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,897 ✭✭✭


    I know that there was a recent breastfeeding thread where someone was bashed because they didn't like seeing a mother breastfeed her child in a restaurant. I am indifferent to that and couldn't give a flying if someone wanted to feed her baby around me.

    However I feel a little different if the child in question is like 5 or 6 years old. I remember reading about a couple of women who insisted that breastfeeding until the child grew 'milk teeth' was completely normal but I can't imagine doing that! At what stage do you get your body back ffs!

    Plus surely the child will turn out weird and too attached to mammy. I can only imagine what the kids in my school would have said if any of us were still being breastfeed up to 8-9 years old. Very odd imo.


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  • #2
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    stop breastfeeding?

    :confused:


  • #3
    The Internet Explorer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    About three fiddy.


  • #4
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Once they've teeth I guess. Not past baby stage all right IMO.


  • #5
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    There's something visually disturbing about seeing a kid standing while suckling.

    If they can stand then move them on.


  • #6
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Depends how hot your mum is.


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  • #7
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    When you can tuck your boobs into your socks.


  • #8
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Giving or taking?


  • #9
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    it's child abuse


  • #10
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    it's child abuse

    It's the child that abusing:pac:.


  • #11
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    You don't stop so much but there is a short dry period between when you move out of your mother's place and when your gf has her first child


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  • #12
    IM0
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    when they start enjoying it too much


  • #13
    hairyprincess
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    A child can physically breast feed until their adult teeth come in


  • #14
    amacachi
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    If they're old enough to ask for it they're too old.


  • #15
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Watched a programme about late breastfeeding - the kids were aged up to 10 and obsessed with tits.


  • #16
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Dudess wrote: »
    Watched a programme about late breastfeeding - the kids were aged up to 10 and obsessed with tits.

    That's not exactly a groundbreaking observation :pac:


  • #17
    tonycascarino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    Never. I want Bitty!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyHm8oqkOB0&feature=related


  • #18
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Never. I love breastfeeding, so does my OH:D


  • #19
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    amacachi wrote: »
    Dudess wrote: »
    Watched a programme about late breastfeeding - the kids were aged up to 10 and obsessed with tits.

    That's not exactly a groundbreaking observation :pac:
    The girls too though.


  • #20
    Nyan Cat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭Nyan Cat


    It seems silly once they're on solids and running around too! Freaky to see a child make grabby hands at a pair of boobs across a the room. Lol


  • #21
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Dudess wrote: »
    The girls too though.

    Might be a generational thing, lot of girls around my age are always on about boobs, how great they are etc.


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  • #22
    IM0
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    when they get a hard on while doing it


  • #23
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    amacachi wrote: »
    Dudess wrote: »
    The girls too though.

    Might be a generational thing, lot of girls around my age are always on about boobs, how great they are etc.
    I agree boobs are great, but in this programme the girl was talking about how she couldn't wait to have boobs so she could breastfeed herself... :pac:


  • #24
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    IM0 wrote: »
    when they get a hard on while doing it

    Thats the best part:rolleyes::D


  • #25
    iCosmopolis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 203 ✭✭iCosmopolis


    Dudess wrote: »
    Watched a programme about late breastfeeding - the kids were aged up to 10 and obsessed with tits.

    Think I seen that one, with the plummy sounding hippyish mother & two girls "mummys boobs are long and pretty" , older one was wistful about not being able to latch anymore :pac:

    Coming myself from a hippyish family, my aunt breast fed her second until she was nearly four - she stopped as she decided it was embarrasing that she was too big & trying to lift her top in public. Also laments that she has to roll up her boobs now to get them into her bra :(


  • #26
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Dudess wrote: »
    I agree boobs are great, but in this programme the girl was talking about how she couldn't wait to have boobs so she could breastfeed herself... :pac:

    How long ago was that made? I might've seen a this-is-them-years-later edition the other night online :pac:


  • #27
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    amacachi wrote: »
    Dudess wrote: »
    I agree boobs are great, but in this programme the girl was talking about how she couldn't wait to have boobs so she could breastfeed herself... :pac:

    How long ago was that made? I might've seen a this-is-them-years-later edition the other night online :pac:
    Would have been shown I'd say seven or eight years ago. On Channel 4 of course.


  • #28
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    If your grand parents were to read this in heaven :eek:


  • #29
    Kimia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,897 ✭✭✭Kimia


    I can't remember if I've seen that or not but I do remember reading about these moms and one of them was saying that her child (of well over 6) would 'twiddle' her nipple when she wanted to feed, like turning a button. Yuuuk!


  • #30
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,641 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Before they start college has to be the absolute limit.


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  • #31
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    GarIT wrote: »
    Before they start college has to be the absolute limit.
    What if they're mature students?


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