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, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

"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)