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Originally Posted by Cherie

At 3 years of age the child should have the skills to drink from a cup, the "baby" stage has long passed, nobody would be clapping if the 3 year old was running around drinking from a babies bottle and breast feeding is no different from the looks of the photo the kid is still in a nappy as well, time to potty train...

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.