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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
EBF (extended breast feeding) doesn't mean they can't also drink from a cup and there is genuinely nothing wrong with EBF; it is healthy and historically completely normal (hundreds of thousands of years of human history, its only become "abnormal" in the last 100 years).
I hate having to go lactivist but I hate ignorance / the oversexualisation of breastfeeding even more sooo... 
But yeah, my problem here with this particular lady isn't that she's breastfeeding a three year old... Or that I think it should be something that's hidden... It's that it's so obviously "posed" in this case and posted on instagram purely, in my opinion, for attention / publicity for the mother (not the issue) and that doesn't sit well with me. She's deliberately trying to "be controversial" and that doesn't help the stigma of EBF... It makes it worse. |
Funnily enough I know what EBF is as I have a pair myself
I'm not ignorant on the issue thanks, there is absolutely no need to breastfeed a child any longer than you would leave them on a bottle, it's personal choice of course but for most mothers whose children will be in nursery aged 3 hanging off a breast or running around in a nappy is not very practical is it? I love how as a man you advocate breastfeeding this late, given you have no idea have you how it would feel, most women don't want leaky breasts any longer than they need to either