8 Year old Breast Fed

NFS4

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Yeah, I heard that on the radio yesterday morning.

Why does a kid 8 years old still need friggin' breast milk????

"Hey Billy, can I have a Hawiian punch from your fridge?"
"Sure Mikey. Now what am I going to drink?? Hey mom, get in here!!!"

**suck suck suck suck**


F*&king DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!:|:|

If the little bastard still wants breast milk, get a fricking breast pump and pump the stuff for him. But don't let the little runt suck on your damn titties at age 8!!:|:|
 

Lucky

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I saw the segment this morning on TV; I dont see a problem with all. All the major health organization's guidelines on this say breastfeed until you both mother and child are mutually ready to stop. Sure, it seems odd but it's not my place to judge unless the mom is forcing the kid to do it so she gets off or something.

Just my opnion that its none of our business. I dont see how people could be so full of :| like NSF4 about somethign like this. <shrug>
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: Lucky
I saw the segment this morning on TV; I dont see a problem with all. All the major health organization's guidelines on this say breastfeed until you both mother and child are mutually ready to stop. Sure, it seems odd but it's not my place to judge unless the mom is forcing the kid to do it so she gets off or something.

Just my opnion that its none of our business. I dont see how people could be so full of :| like NSF4 about somethign like this. <shrug>

Hell, they can do whatever the hell they want in the privacy of their on home, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with it. Sick puppies.

What if the kid isn't ready to stop until 16, 17??

I haven't gotten this disgusted about family "relations" since that thread a while back about having sex with your own siblings
 

Spooner

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I'm 23. I still enjoy sucking on a pair of breasts at any time :D


of course..... they're never my mom's, and not for a source of food, so........
 
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my feeling is that when the child can say, "Mother, may I suckle at your teat please?", then its time to wean em.
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: Spooner
I'm 23. I still enjoy sucking on a pair of breasts at any time :D


of course..... they're never my mom's, and not for a source of food, so........

I'm not gonna disagree with you there:D Breasts are a sexual object past a certain age. But my point is:

At age 8, I knew what breasts were and was always trying to sneek a peak at them on TV (I can still remember my mom covering my eyes when a pair would show up on a movie or something). I can also remember at age 8 - 10 trying to stay up to watch those "naughty movies" on HBO without being caught so I could watch the boobies :p Dream On was THE show back then :D

Question, how is this chick still lactating if the kid is 8????
 

OutHouse

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COHEN: Absolutely. I mean, it's really been relatively recent that women were able to breast-feed in public. I remember my mother nursed me and my siblings, and she got extraordinary amounts of grief from it from everyone ... even when she wasn't doing it in public.

and how old was SHE to be able to remember that?
 

TomC25

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How would you feel if you had memories of breast feeding - and had asked to do it.

I don't think I would want that memory.

Especially going through my teen years.

She thinks she is doing what is best for her kid, but I think otherwise.
 

OutHouse

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Question, how is this chick still lactating if the kid is 8????

women can lactate for a very long time all it takes is stimulation like sucking. before the wonderful thing called baby formula there were special women called "Wet Nurses" and all they did was feed children when the mom couldnt produce any milk or not enough.

 

AU Tiger

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I wonder if this is the same case I heard about months ago? In that case the mother was the one that insisted on continuing the breast feeding. I believe it was mentioned that people were trying to get the mother some mental help, but I hadn't heard anything since.
 

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Originally posted by: Citrix
Question, how is this chick still lactating if the kid is 8????

women can lactate for a very long time all it takes is stimulation like sucking. before the wonderful thing called baby formula there were special women called "Wet Nurses" and all they did was feed children when the mom couldnt produce any milk or not enough.

is this true? i thought you couldnt really suck anything but your mom's milk?
 

kassy

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Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Originally posted by: Citrix
Question, how is this chick still lactating if the kid is 8????

women can lactate for a very long time all it takes is stimulation like sucking. before the wonderful thing called baby formula there were special women called "Wet Nurses" and all they did was feed children when the mom couldnt produce any milk or not enough.

is this true? i thought you couldnt really suck anything but your mom's milk?

Yes its true, although one of the main reasons 'wet nursing' started was because breast feeding was seen as being uncivilized and wet nurses were often of a lower class.

Its also possible for a adoptive mother to breastfeed a new baby.

While I agree that feeding an 8 year old is pushing it (for me anyway) its a shame more women don't breastfeed, for starters there would be less child abuse.

 

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Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Uh... is <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge target=blank href="http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/HEALTH/parenting/07/10/breast.fed.controversy.otsc/story.cohen.jpg">that</A> the chick that's doing the breast feeding?

::innocent face::
LOL! Title from website: Elizabeth Cohen: Breast-feeding older kids

Sign me up!
 

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(First, excuse the egocentricity of my post... it is easier for me to talk about this from experience than it is to postulate from a third person perspective. )

This is my experience with breast feeding.

I breast fed my first for 8 months, my second for 5 months, and my 3rd for a year.

The first time, I quit because I was stressed out from getting divorced and wanted to start smoking again, so I cut her off. (I also never smoked around her, and I quit again once I was settled back down again)

The second had digestive problems and was allergic to everything I ate. It was easier to give her a formula that I knew she could handle rather than eat the wrong thing and be up all night with a colicky baby.

The third, I vowed to nurse until HE wanted to be weaned. I wanted it to be up to him, and not me. He learned to walk at 11 months and one month later, he was done with nursing. I was a little sad but I'm very sensitive to my children's needs. He didn't want it anymore, and wasn't going to guilt him into nursing. I respected the choice he freely made.

Now my husband, on the otherhand, refuses to be weaned... my breasts are never going to dry up at this rate....

;)

(Seriously, some of us can keep making milk indefinitely.)


I see the point of raising a child as being to help them become healthy, happy, confident, and independent. One must constantly look to see if they are doing what is truly best for the child or if they are doing something for selfish purposes. And breast feeding a child is lovely. It is one of the most truly loving and beautiful experiences I have known.

Extended nursing is a normal occurance in developing countries, but in modern society it could be considered a form of sexual abuse. I think each case should be looked at individually, because there are some whacked out women who do become moms. I know of several cases of mother-son incest. It happens. There is also emotional incest, which can be just as damaging. Personally, I would be concerned if my kids still wanted titty after a certain age because I would interpret that as them being too dependent on me. But that's just me. I can't judge anyone else, and I would need to know the details of a case before I could say it was a problem.

<---happy to breast feed and happy to wean
 

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Originally posted by: Isla
(First, excuse the egocentricity of my post... it is easier for me to talk about this from experience than it is to postulate from a third person perspective. )

This is my experience with breast feeding.

I breast fed my first for 8 months, my second for 5 months, and my 3rd for a year.

The first time, I quit because I was stressed out from getting divorced and wanted to start smoking again, so I cut her off. (I also never smoked around her, and I quit again once I was settled back down again)

The second had digestive problems and was allergic to everything I ate. It was easier to give her a formula that I knew she could handle rather than eat the wrong thing and be up all night with a colicky baby.

The third, I vowed to nurse until HE wanted to be weaned. I wanted it to be up to him, and not me. He learned to walk at 11 months and one month later, he was done with nursing. I was a little sad but I'm very sensitive to my children's needs. He didn't want it anymore, and wasn't going to guilt him into nursing. I respected the choice he freely made.

Now my husband, on the otherhand, refuses to be weaned... my breasts are never going to dry up at this rate....

;)

(Seriously, some of us can keep making milk indefinitely.)


I see the point of raising a child as being to help them become healthy, happy, confident, and independent. One must constantly look to see if they are doing what is truly best for the child or if they are doing something for selfish purposes. And breast feeding a child is lovely. It is one of the most truly loving and beautiful experiences I have known.

Extended nursing is a normal occurance in developing countries, but in modern society it could be considered a form of sexual abuse. I think each case should be looked at individually, because there are some whacked out women who do become moms. I know of several cases of mother-son incest. It happens. There is also emotional incest, which can be just as damaging. Personally, I would be concerned if my kids still wanted titty after a certain age because I would interpret that as them being too dependent on me. But that's just me. I can't judge anyone else, and I would need to know the details of a case before I could say it was a problem.

<---happy to breast feed and happy to wean



All three of mine nursed, My son nursed till he was almost 2... breast feeding was great,lol, I'm lazy, getting up and stumbling around at 2am trying to find,make and heat a bottle was never my things, lol,grab the kiddie,apply to tit,go back to sleep always worked for me :)