Anonymous wrote:Breastfeeding at 16 months? ... ew!!

F off. Go back to defending trump in politics, Grandpa.

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Anonymous wrote:It's totally normal.

Not if “normal” means the majority. “Natural” might be a better word.

And while the pressure might be “breast is best” for newborns, it certainly is not “breastfeeding past a year”. Lots of judgement on breastfeeding a toddler!

+1. Your a bad mother if you don’t breastfeed until the baby is six months old and you’re a weird woman if you breastfeed past one year.

Get a life.

? I have a wonderful, full life, dear, but thanks for the suggestion...

Oh yeah, you're making that very obvious.

NP here and WTF is your problem? PP wrote a statement that feels very true to me and unjustly so. Mothers have a razor-thin margin of what is best and are judged harshly.

Breastfeeding at 16 months? ... ew!!

It doesn’t seem weird to me. When my son was 15 mo he nursed at wake-up, before nap, and before bed, so 3 or 4 times per day depending on number of naps (he dropped to one nap at that age). It was just a built in part of his routine. I deliberately weaned him then because I hadn’t had a period yet and wanted another child. But I think he would’ve kept going on that schedule otherwise. That said, it was super easy to wean him when I decided to, it was like he didn’t miss it at all. So whatever you decide to do I wouldn’t stress too much. I stressed so much in advance of weaning him and it was nothing for us.

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Anonymous wrote:Going strong with my 16 month old now, who still nurses about every 4-5 hours. I’m too exhausted and don’t have the stomach for sleep training so I still nurse him at night, too.

I did this with my crappy sleeping first and now he is sporting ugly SDF stained teeth from "milk bottle" caries at age 4.5.

PP here. I nursed my first at night til she was 2.5 and has no cavities or stained teeth. So that’s not always the case. Sorry it was for you.

Also, there’s this.

https://kellymom.com/ages/older-infant/tooth-decay/

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Anonymous wrote:Going strong with my 16 month old now, who still nurses about every 4-5 hours. I’m too exhausted and don’t have the stomach for sleep training so I still nurse him at night, too.

I did this with my crappy sleeping first and now he is sporting ugly SDF stained teeth from "milk bottle" caries at age 4.5.

PP here. I nursed my first at night til she was 2.5 and has no cavities or stained teeth. So that’s not always the case. Sorry it was for you.

My 16MO nurses twice a day. I asked her pediatrician for his best guidance on weaning (he’s an older doctor and has seen it all) he said he advises before 3YO but said most mothers who EBF’d at the beginning still do some nursing until 18M-2YO even though they often keep it more discreet. He said you get a lot more “civilians” with negative opinions about this than pediatricians, especially in the time of COVID.

This is the long way of saying, OP, ask your pediatrician. You’ll probably get a less shrill reaction.

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Anonymous wrote:It's totally normal.

Not if “normal” means the majority. “Natural” might be a better word.

And while the pressure might be “breast is best” for newborns, it certainly is not “breastfeeding past a year”. Lots of judgement on breastfeeding a toddler!

+1. Your a bad mother if you don’t breastfeed until the baby is six months old and you’re a weird woman if you breastfeed past one year.

Get a life.

? I have a wonderful, full life, dear, but thanks for the suggestion...

Oh yeah, you're making that very obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with nursing as long as you like, but she needs fat from dairy. Breast milk turns into skim milk past 12 months. Does she eat cheese and yogurt?

This is not true. She needs fat, protein, calcium. Milk/dairy is a source of these things but so are all kinds of other foods.

Just relating what my doctor told me and going off my experience of one of my babies falling off her growth curve past 12 months. Speaking of calcium, is baby munching down tons of greens? Milk banks will not take milk from moms with babies older than 12 months because the composition changes.

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Anonymous wrote:It's totally normal.

Not if “normal” means the majority. “Natural” might be a better word.

And while the pressure might be “breast is best” for newborns, it certainly is not “breastfeeding past a year”. Lots of judgement on breastfeeding a toddler!

+1. Your a bad mother if you don’t breastfeed until the baby is six months old and you’re a weird woman if you breastfeed past one year.

Get a life.

? I have a wonderful, full life, dear, but thanks for the suggestion...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's totally normal.

Not if “normal” means the majority. “Natural” might be a better word.

And while the pressure might be “breast is best” for newborns, it certainly is not “breastfeeding past a year”. Lots of judgement on breastfeeding a toddler!

+1. Your a bad mother if you don’t breastfeed until the baby is six months old and you’re a weird woman if you breastfeed past one year.

Get a life.

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with nursing as long as you like, but she needs fat from dairy. Breast milk turns into skim milk past 12 months. Does she eat cheese and yogurt?

This is not true. She needs fat, protein, calcium. Milk/dairy is a source of these things but so are all kinds of other foods.

Im still nursing my 2.5 year old. Am and pm only. First kid weaned herself at 15 months and this one just wont.

Anonymous wrote:Going strong with my 16 month old now, who still nurses about every 4-5 hours. I’m too exhausted and don’t have the stomach for sleep training so I still nurse him at night, too.

I did this with my crappy sleeping first and now he is sporting ugly SDF stained teeth from "milk bottle" caries at age 4.5.

There is nothing wrong with nursing as long as you like, but she needs fat from dairy. Breast milk turns into skim milk past 12 months. Does she eat cheese and yogurt?