Extended breastfeeding

My fave is that mothers forget to play games cos they are too busy feeding!!! ROFLMAO!!!!!!!! had to be a MAN that wrote that rubbish!!!!

Im still in the early stages of extended breastfeeding.

I have no plans to wean Megan just yet she still has around 3-6 feeds a day. I am the only one in my coffee group still BF'ng half of them stopped before 6 months and the other 2 one stoppped around 10 months and one just stopped in the last week her son is 13 months.

I too have a very supportive husband and has no problems with me letting Megan decide when she want to wean, unless of course she is still feeding when she is 8 (i plan to have her weaned well before then if she doesnt self wean)

and like others formula is too expensive and Im too lazy to make up bottles.

Almost 21 months old and still going here God I LOVE LOVE LOVE breastfeeding, a bond that no one else can share with my son.

A few months back I was so close to weaning him, his sleeping is still all up in the air at night, and now that he knows how to climb out the cot ...at around 3am every morning I have a certain little someone climbing into my bed and lifting my top for some 'bitty'.

BuzzyBee wrote: A few months back I was so close to weaning him, his sleeping is still all up in the air at night, and now that he knows how to climb out the cot ...at around 3am every morning I have a certain little someone climbing into my bed and lifting my top for some 'bitty'.

lol that's so cute

[Hi I'm new here I've just read this whole thread and found it facsinating. I always had in the back of my mind that I would breastfeed Taylor until he was 1 as that was what my mum had done. However at around 6 months he pretty much weaned himself off. He had been quite grizzly for a couple of weeks and I just put it down to teething. But I soon clicked that my milk alone was not enough for him anymore so we started feeding him on 3 meals of solids (followed by a bottle) a day right from the start. I breastfeed him during the night but then he started sleeping right through so there went the breastfeeding. I was a bit disappointed as I love the feeling and it intensifies the bond so much. But he didn't seem to miss it and he was much happier from then on so that made me feel better.

I have to say I really admire all you mums that carry on with breastfeeding for 1 year, 2 years or even more, and I find it quite surprising that some of you experience negative feedback about it. Breast milk is the best thing you can give your baby. It is tailor made for their little bodies so how can doing it for longer, be a bad thing. I think you should be celebrated for persisting with it and giving your baby the extra nutrients and antibodies that formula cannot.

I say ignore people with negative views on it. You're doing a great thing, don't let anybody make you feel otherwise and doubt your descision. I say good on you and keep up the great work. I only wish I could have been so dedicated

I would love to hear from those of you that have breastfed during pregnancy too. How did you find it. I would like to breastfeed henry until he self weans but am now wondering what happens if i get pregnant? can I breastfeed two babies? and do it while pregnant? I read somethng somewhere about feeding while pregnant taking nutrients away from the unborn baby. is this true - surely it cant be - our bodies are amazing things. Sorry all that didnt make much sense

Bobbie- if it was me I would drop the morning feed,  as I think this would be easier than dropping the evening feed (you would just need to make sure that you can get breakfast ready fast ).

 

It was so cute today, Ella decided that her 'bubba's' needed to have milk as well, so sat down on the chair in her room that I feed her on, lifted up her top and tried to feed her bubba. When she found that no milk was coming out, she decided that I had to feed bubba instead....and then proceeded to give me several other soft toys to feed as well.

I have done extended breastfeeding, BFing while preggy AND tandem feeding. In fact I have been continuously lactating for well over 4 years now LOL!

Alex was 10months old when I conceived Blaire, he breastfed the whole way through my pregnancy, tandemfed him with Blaire for a year & then I weaned him just a couple of months before his third birthday.
I promptly got preggy with Erika, Blaire breastfed through my entire pregnancy & then I tandemfed Blaire & Erika for 9 months. I just weaned him just a month ago.
Erika is still going strong & I don't see ny reason why I won't breastfeed her until she is around the same age as my boys were when I weaned them.

I have to say that when I had Alex, Hubby was NOT keen on me breastfeeding for as long as I have... He has come around to the idea & in the end was defending me against his mother who put a lot of pressure on me to put my kids on a bottle. My mum also did but she at least did it more subtly LOL!
For me it has just felt right & I am happy with my choices. I also do part time co-sleeping, have done with all 3 of my kids as it suited me to do so but you should hear some of the abuse I get for that!!

Toni you legend! That's great!

My mum mentioned to me the other month that I wouldn't be able to concieve while BFing - the next day I got my BFP
- but that's all that's been said by anyone apart from the standard 'oh are you still breastfeeding?'

I love that I have fed for longer than most of my Coffee Group especially since I had flat nipplesand had to use shields in the beginning and Rowan started out cup feeding because she couldn't suckle properly.

I'm bfing my son (8months now) and I am wondering do you just feed your older babes morning and night or do you just let them tell you when they want booby.
I am not wanting to stop bfing yet but am yet to make a decision if I'll stop once he's 12month or whether I'll continue.
I am assuming that if it is just morning and night then really not too many people would know that you are still bfing.
Do your kiddies take a bottle as well or what do you do when you want to leave them with someone for the night for example?
Thanks for answering my questions.