Current catchphrases in this household:
"No! We don't throw things!" to the toddler (which is a lie as I chuck stuff about in a rage all the time) or "leave the boobs alone" to both toddler and Catface.

Alt: Ran 8 miles yesterday, first decent run since the marathon. It was a bit hot.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 9:59, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

We decided with our second to refer to breastfeeding as "Milk"
After our previous experience of the other one loudly demanding "I WANT BOOB!" in public places.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:03, Reply)

Yep. With accompanying hand down neckline of top.
The toddler is just as bad.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:04, Reply)

Yes but what about your daughter?
LOLOLOLOL YOU'RE A PAEDO!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:14, Reply)

It's YOUR a peado.
Get the chav grammar correct, plz.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:29, Reply)

Mine had stopped breastfeeding long before they were that articulate

( Peej, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:12, Reply)

This must be why you have such perky tits

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:13, Reply)

SHE WON'T EVEN LET YOUR CHILDREN NEAR HER BOOBS

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:13, Reply)

I know someone who breastfeeds her 2 year old and it just seems weird
I know it shouldn't but it bloody does.
( Peej, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:15, Reply)

Of course it seems weird
it's a departure from the general norm. Weird isn't always the same as wrong.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:17, Reply)

I heard of my wifes friend's sister who breast feeds her six year old
who still sleeps in their bedroom.

"he'll move out when he feels ready", n o he won't he's a fucking child and incapable of making his own decisions you hippy cunt
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:18, Reply)

Also: TITS!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:19, Reply)

who was it who said "not once they start wearing shoes"
seems a fair assessment to me.

unless you're sandi shaw's mother, of course.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:19, Reply)

Or DGs ex flatmate

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:20, Reply)

It doesn't make a blind bit of fucking difference really.
As long as you're comfortable with it. There's not a single shred of medical evidence it does any good or bad past the first couple of months, maybe even less, but it's such an emotive subject that people can be absolute idiot cunts about the whole thing.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:21, Reply)

After 6 years of sucking her tits will be like a tennis ball in a football sock

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:22, Reply)

Well, and that.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:22, Reply)

There definitely is medical evidence that it's beneficial after a couple of months.
Here you go: kellymom.com/ages/after12mo/ebf-refs/
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:31, Reply)

WHO guidelines are to breastfeed exclusively for six months and to continue until age two.
The world average is four years.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:33, Reply)

"up to two years of age or beyond", says WHO.
My daughter will be 2 in July. I'm going to attempt to cut out the night feeds then but I might still feed her before bed. We'll see.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:36, Reply)

fuck night feeding; we stopped that at about 6 months

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:38, Reply)

It's the only way I get sleep.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:40, Reply)

You don't think that if you didn't feed her in the night, she wouldn't wake in the night?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:43, Reply)

You don't think we haven't tried that?

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:44, Reply)

Sorry, we've had a similar conversation before.
It's easy to forget that what works for one doesn't necessarily work for another.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:46, Reply)

Yeah.
Most of my parenting decisions are made out of sheer convenience so when feeding and co-sleeping maximised everyone's sleep we went with that. The night wakings aren't too bad now but the early mornings are a killer.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:49, Reply)

We had to bribe my son with a new toy in the end.
He was about two years, eight months.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:38, Reply)

Mumsnet is losing it's appeal suddenly

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:39, Reply)

I don't know
I'm thinking of joining...
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:43, Reply)

"Well, speaking as a mother..."
NOBODY IS EVER WRONG ON MUMSNET
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:47, Reply)

the world average life expectancy is less than 50.
I don't think that's a very good argument.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:48, Reply)

It was less an argument, more a statement.
I imagine that one of the reasons the world average is high is because it includes very poor countries where food is scarce and breastfeeding is a free, nutritious option.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:52, Reply)

I know, I don't think I really meant argument tbh
It's just an interesting area - I know no-one here is doing it but it's amazing how some people will use the "but look, everyone in third world coutries does x and y so it must good" as a justification for a first world choice when if people just stopped and thought for a single second they would see how idiotically retarded that is.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:55, Reply)

Agreed. Likewise with the prehistoric argument.
I've spent long enough digging up prehistoric homes and tombs to realise I'd like a somewhat more comfortable life than that, please.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 11:02, Reply)

OK, I don't want to argue about it
because it's not my place to, and I don't have a strong opinion either way. But you're a scientist... There is no study on anything like this that is able to separate out the actual effect of breast milk with the million other social-economic effects that are going to interfere with the outcome. You can't just take a couple of thousand mothers and lock up for a couple of years them in the controlled environment necessary to have any hope of relevant data.

I don't think it's bad. Logic suggests it's probably good, of course, but there's not any solid evidence and certainly nothing to vaguely back up the level of shit that the fanatics at the extreme end sling at anyone that dares question their choices.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:47, Reply)

There was an article in the Guardian this weekend that said pretty much precisely that.
Still it gives us another weapon with which to judge people.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:50, Reply)

Oh, totally.
Yeah, I saw that article. Was interesting.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:52, Reply)

Sure, there's never going to be that controlled an experiment
but that's the same for many, many things and I think the evidence that is coming out of the studies is indicative of breastfeeding being beneficial. Inferences can be drawn. Scientists aren't always working with cut-and-dried binary results. And fanatics are fanatics - I don't really care how other people feed their child; I care how I feed mine. I wouldn't get worked up over formula feeding but I did raise an eyebrow at the women I saw pouring coke into her child's sippy cup last week.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:56, Reply)

Oh, I know
but some things are easier to isolate than others, and this is one of the harder ones.

It's about nothing other than personal choice, of course. I just find it interesting the totally out-of-proportion response it generates from some sectors, tbh, and that some people think they have the right to preach about something they don't have any evidence to back up.

Although I think you'd have been justified in fucking cokemum's shit RIGHT up.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 29 May 2012, 11:06, Reply)

Not once they've got a mouthfull of fucking TEETH, more like

(berk, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:22, Reply)

They learn not to bite
eventually.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:27, Reply)

your cock must have been raw

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:47, Reply)

Worth it in the end.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:53, Reply)