Breastfeeding & Blogging

my favorite part? “yes it is. the end.” so awesome.

Wow, it seems like years later this topic is still going around! I think I found QOS way back when when you were flashing your breasts was causing waves – I was breastfeeding then and still am (luckily I’m not the same child!) While it’s always a hot topic to bring up, it really does seem that both sides are meeting a bit more in the middle. What hasn’t changed is some unwritten deadline for weaning even within the breastfeeding community. I am currently breastfeeding my 1.5 year old son (in public on occasion) and nursed my daughter to the age of 3.5 years old (in public on occasion). That sparks negative comments from even the most dedicated breastfeeding supporters, to which I now have a comeback to ‘are you still nursing that child’?

Yes I am, the end.

Is it best? Yes. Did I want to? Yes.

COULD I, medically?

No.

Was I tired of people who didn’t know me judging me on why my baby was bottle fed?

Yes.

The end.

@Lynette:

Where I live there seems to be an unspoken age of weaning. Here in Canada, because of the one year maternity leave, most people seem to wean in time to go back to work. Some “rebel” stay-at-home moms push it a bit longer. But most people don’t realize that it is recommended that babies be breastfed until they are at least 2 years old with breastfeeding continuing after that for as long as mom and child wish.

I try to be as open as possible with as many people about child-led weaning and the possibility of partial weaning (i.e. with an older nursling I can work and still breastfeed, without having to pump at work). I hope that by sharing what I am doing, more people will realize that it is a possibility.