Bitty

[joeluke]

Breastfeeding a 5-year-old

Wrong, just wrong

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3100626/I-d-like-carry-TEN-Mother-claims-long-term-breastfeeding-five-year-old-daughter-smarter-husband-isn-t-thrilled-it.html

[-Talbot-]

There was an eight year old still breast feeding on skynews (I think it was skynews)

[Broseph]

Well if she grows up and becomes one of Mensas most highest iq members,a Nasa Scientist or a Quantum Physicist then we may have to rethink what is wrong and what is right.

[Buenchico]

I think Talbot is referring to the 2006 documentary (which was on terrestrial TV, not Sky, probably ITV) called 'Extraordinary Breastfeeding' which did, indeed, feature a mother breast-feeding her 8yo daughter:
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/breast-feeding-week05.jpg?quality=65&strip=color&w=480

This Guardian article includes this paragraph:
"At one point she mentions a 16-year-old boy who was regularly fed by his mother and cites examples of even older children. She says breastfeeding adolescents isn't a practice she would dismiss out of hand":
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/09/breastfeeding-older-children

Maybe Broseph, above, has a valid point?
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/18/brazil-longer-babies-breastfed-more-achieve-in-life-major-study

[Mamyalynne]

I don't feel it is for anyone else to say that how a family brings up their children is wrong.

Sad to read in the link though that the Father feels distanced from his children.

[-Talbot-]

It was sky news (today) http://news.sky.com/story/1491794/backlash-over-breastfeeding-selfie-trend

I think the breast fed babies are smarter argument is total ***

[hc4361]

Why is it wrong, joeluke?

[sherrardk]

I can't help thinking it's attention seeking on the part of the mother - why else would she go to the press about it (I also think it is v weird - the child is a child, not a baby).

[Broseph]

/I think the breast fed babies are smarter argument is total ***/

Have you read Buenchicos link or seen the many studies? What exactly are you basing this on exactly?

[-Talbot-]

Living life

[Mamyalynne]

Bill's mother

[Mamyalynne]

Apologies, above in error

[-Talbot-]

You expecting rain, mamya?

[DaisyNonna]

Babies are breastfed, not children who are capable of receiving nourishment in other ways.
Mother has gone public. How do the child's schoolmates react and treat the child?
How will this affect the child in later life when breasts become sexual rather than a canteen?

[Mamyalynne]

Lol,no sorry - we,ve had plenty.


Chatting on Skype at the same time, ipad has me muddled.

[anneasquith]

so unfair on this child. who will now no doubt be ridiculed at school by her peers.

[Barsel]

That's exactly what I was thinking anne x

[naomi24]

Sick.

[mikey4444]

If a mother is still breastfeeding a 5 year old child, in my opinion it says more about about the adult than the child. I would go as far as to say it is a form of child abuse. Quite what this daft women thought she was doing by running to the press with her story in the first place, I just can't imagine.

[joggerjayne]

What a ridiculous, embarrassing, delusional woman.

"I believe children reach their full potential through breast feeding" ?

The young of any species reach their full potential when their parents successfully teach them to live as adults of the species. In every land based species, two fundamentals of that process are:

1. to have the mobility of an adult, and

2. to consume the diet of an adult.

The first thing parents teach their young in nature, one they can walk or fly?

How to hunt or forage for food.

We should not let this woman distract anyone with nonsense talk about reaching full potential, or becoming more intelligent.

She is a disgrace and an embarrassment. She is an attention seeker of the worst possible kind.

[ummmm]

So breastfeeding should stop when a baby starts eating food. Funny that goes against all the recommendations.