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23. That's a really ignorant view

In most parts of the world, children breastfeed past toddlerhood. My own father, born to a mom with a Ukrainian background and kept her 'view' from the 'old country' that children should be breastfed until they were ready to wean. My aunts were breastfed until they were 3, my dad until he was 2.5. My one aunt definitely remembers breastfeeding. Why is that bad??

Studies show that the 'natural' human weaning age (meaning if we didn't have access to bottles, formula and sippy cups and based on when other mammals lose their milk teeth and wean) would naturally fall between 2.5 and 7. We think that just because we've had bottles for the last 100 years that suddenly the way humans evolved has totally changed and breastfeeding past 6 months is 'sick'. This is a real problem in our society.

The WHO recommends AT LEAST 2 years. I personally breastfed all 4 of my kids past the age of 2. Believe you me, it wasn't because *I* needed it, LOL.

I really think people who haven't researched this and read the science on it shouldn't comment on it, past "It's not for me" which is fine. Don't attack others for doing something humans have been doing for thousands of years because of some breast=sex hangup manufactured in the 20th century.