i was just reading an article online and this women was still breastfeeding her 3 year old daughter, is this normal?? I'm kinda freaked xx

oh my god and another breastfeeding her 4 year old son still???? aggghhhh

Till about 13-14 y/o

OMG thats not funny i'm going to have nightmares they have teeth and talk and women still breastfeed them? sorry if thats what you are planning on doing anyone. i am just a lil disturbed at the thought personally xx

Personal choice.

I plan on 12-18 months for lots of reasons. I would go to 2 years, but think beyond that I'd work on cutting back.

I went between 6-9 months with my first, and wish I had gone longer, I stopped because I was afraid she'd bite me (her teeth were coming in) and I was young (21).

Medically, there is still a lot of nutrition in breast milk even beyond 2 years. Many doctors and nutritionists friendly to breastfeeding note that breastmilk has all the necessary components for nutrition for the first full year. No solids are necessary to supplement. I think world wide the statistics are something like babies are 3-4 years breastfed. So I imagine developing countries etc. would have babies fed much longer than countries like the US where breastfeeding longer than one year is still sometimes taboo.

I'll see if I can find any articles for you.

World average is 4.2 years.

http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/bfinfo/toddler.html

http://www.who.int/topics/breastfeeding/en/

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org...rics;115/2/496

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org...ics;100/6/1035

I breastfed my daughter till she was 20months old. would have been longer but my milk stopped when I was pregnant

I'm going to breastfeed for one year. I might start pumping milk exclusively at 9-12 months depending on if hes a biter.

I am planning on going 12-18 months or so. I have no idea, just going to see how it goes.

I fed until 9 months, as we wanted to TTC no2. and my periods had stopped whilst i was feeding.