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I'll breastfeed till they're EIGHT!

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Stella is proud that her children are acknowledged to be among the eldest to be breastfed. Indeed, she is campaigning for other women to follow her example.

'As a mother, you are totally responsible for the health of your baby, and I consider part of that duty to be breastfeeding - it might not be best for every woman, but it is best for every baby. My children don't strictly need breast milk now, but they are still getting benefits,' says Stella, from Ludlow in Shropshire.

'Of course, some people are squeamish - they don't like three-month- olds feeding in public, let alone three-year-olds sitting on your knee - but you wouldn't throw a blanket over a sheep feeding a lamb in a field, would you? It's what nature intended.

-- I wonder how the children will feel about this when they are older. Breast feeding is totally natural, but until they are 8? Hmmmm, not convinced myself.
couteaux

18 responses // I'll breastfeed till they're EIGHT!

  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=l8orUaCJ0GY
    Bitty, I want bitty...

    Personally, I think 8 years old is a bit much.
    mattbrawn
  • Can you imagine bringing a date back to your house and then seeing embarassing...'baby' photos of you at eight years old sucking on your mom's booby? awkward!


    I don't get why she can't just pump the milk and give it to her kids later? does she actually have to breastfeed?
    Peewong
  • She likes doing it. There's no reason to breast feed a child at eight years old and a number of reasons not to. But it's difficult to see past emotion and instinct sometimes.
    BloxParty
  • She had big problems having children, so I expect she hates the idea of losing the closeness and bond they currently have. Personally, I think this is much more about her needs than those of her children.
    couteaux
  • we are just raised to see this as something we don't want to see.

    personally, i think it's just developmentally strange...plenty of parents and kids have wonderful bonds and relationships without any breastfeeding at all, much less doing it until the kid is almost in the double digits.

    it's also "natural" to be in the nude, but i don't want to see that on the train, nor do I want to see your 4th grader getting a drink from their moms boobies like a water fountain...

    no thank you.
    MissAmanda
  • I'm sorry. Even in the poorest of countries the kids get off the teet at a reasonable amount of time, and by reasonable I mean when they can tell you, mommy I'm hungry. If it was really about the nutritional value, then pump those babies into a bottle. Whatever satisfaction she gets from having those kids sit on her knees and sucking on her milk jugs, in public no less, is beyond the need to keep them healthy. Perhaps she should consider their mental health once they realize how mortified we are. Breast feeding is natural. Breast feeding 8 year olds...not so much.
    Neghie
  • Yeah, I agree that its a psychological thing from her part.

    She looks like she had the children quite late, looking at the picture, so I think she may be at the stage now where she has finished her career and aims to spend time at home with her children.

    So yeah, either its psychological or she's using this science/health crap as an excuse for 'awkward behaviour'.
    Skyscraper08
  • Her kids are going to hate her.
    shroomfairy
  • totally unnecessary...
    jade_azul16
  • How will the children's immune systems develop normally when they are receiving all their antibodies from a given source? Control freak, you say?
    slamber
  • i 27 and i'm still breast feeding,
    my girlfriend doesn't mind.
    phukna
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  • I think that is kind of child abuse. Once you reach a certain age private parts are private . I could almost see this as sexual abuse. It's disturbing. Granted some people are a little more open with nudity and their bodies but I find it totally wrong for an eight year old to be putting their mouth on their mothers tit.
    noonesserenity
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  • Yeah, why not breastfeed for life? Life-long love! Always there for comfort and support!
    24French
  • perhaps these kids like it now, but when they get older they'll think their mother was crazy and won't believe that she did that to them..
    lemonsun12
  • I read "Mothering" magazine and they recommend breast feeding up until about 3 years. Even that I had problems with. There are benefits of breastfeeding beyond one or two, and that is cool. Somehow three just seems too old. But who knows, maybe to three years isn't too bad. Eight is simply gross.
    cheyroze
  • It's hard to understand. Surely she can't believe in the health benefits so much that she's willing to overlook the obvious emotional and psychological issues this is going raise. Add to that the problems that the children are going to face when they attempt to socialize - imagine trying to make those first tentative steps into conscious socialization when you haven't even been weaned yet.

    Perhaps she's deluded, it doesn't really excuse the fact that she's putting her own emotional needs in front of her children's. That she seems to have convinced herself that she's doing what's best for them makes this more frustrating.

    You want healthy kids? Feed them lentils and spinach and enroll them in a local sports club, for god's sake.
    BloxParty
  • Ya eight is a bit much but every family is different and I think there should be a cut off time! Some kids in my family breastfed till maybe 3or4 and theres nothing wrong with them socially or with there independence. I support breastfeeding 100% but babies arent babies at 8yrs old so good feeding habits should be taught instead!
    Azucena

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