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Breastfeeding At Age 5

Breastfeeding At Age 5

Do you think Breastfeeding a child the age of five is taboo? The Pollock family of Australia does not think so, even though the child attends school and achieves just as any other child his age. Natasha Pollock, the five year old's mother believes it is quite fine to do so despite many telling her that she is preventing her child growing up. Psychologists believe Natasha may be trying to keep her child dependent on her in a special way... what are your thoughts?

Age Breastfeeding

I don't know. I breastfed my first until he was almost 3 years old, my second until he was 18 months old because I was pregnant with my third.

Sometimes children are just not ready to give it up (special needs, etc) and MOST people who do not breastfeed think it is easy to just stop but it's not!

I am always amazed when I hear mothers saying their kids were only interested in breastfeeding for a couple of weeks or months and then they just did not want it. Well, not mine!

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I think 5 is kind of weird.

Are you saying that it is more of the mother's/childs choice?

Age Breastfeeding

I think up to one year is enough and anything more than that is over done. Breast feeding children tend to be up more during the night, at one year old you do not want a child getting up for a 'drinkie'. Five is ridiculous - something wrong there.

Age Breastfeeding

Yah, it seams that a lot of women would keep feeding all the way up to high school if something wasn't done, but I don't really know.

I would say that I wouldn't want my son still sucking at 2.

I was just curious, because I don't have any kids right now. Not really my Arena.

Breastfeeding At Age 5

Well yes, whose choice would be?

JB, what are you suggesting about a five years old breastfeeding?

Breastfeeding Age 5

I think it is up to both the mother and the child. If the child still needs it then I see no problem with it. Also the mother can sense when a child is more ready to give up the breast. I think 5 might be a little old but I have seen wear some breastfeed up to age nine. Now that may be a little overboard.

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LDS

What about the teeth issue. Not to be personal, but don't the Children start biting a lot past one. My wife couldn't get past 11 months before the kids started gnawing away around that time, and she was pretty much forced to ween them because of the sores.

When I went to Europe for a few years (Church Mission) There were several times that we would be teaching a family and a 3 to 5 year old child would come up to their mom and lift her shirt and start breast feeding. Needless to say, it took a little getting used to for a farm boy from Southern Arizona, especially the first few times.