My extended breastfeeding story

[Lillibetsy]

Hey mamas - it's been FOREVER since I've been on this board, but I wanted to share this story I wrote for Jane Pratt's website - remember Sassy magazine? If you do, you remember the "It Happened to Me" feature, right? Well, I wrote an "It Happened to Me" for her site, xoJane.com, about nursing into toddlerhood. I was prepared for a lot of "ew, gross" and instead the comments were super-awesome and supportive. Yay! I thought this community would be interested - here it is: http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-me/it-happened-me-i-breast-fed-my-child-until-she-was-4

Happy breastfeeding!

[TiredX2]

Thanks for sharing that!  It really reminded me a lot of my experiences.

This was especially funny:

 The tiny ones were sweet, nursing away in slings and under blankets, but then a boy who must have been at least three years old clambered into his mother’s lap, yanked up her shirt, and latched on. I carefully kept a neutral expression frozen on my face, trying to hide my disgust. I’d never seen a child that old nursing, and it just looked wrong. I vowed never to nurse that long.

I remember having the exact same reaction at my first LLL.  And then ending up nursing my kids longer than those kids, lol.

[Lillibetsy]

Thanks! It's funny how our ideas about what we'll do change along the way. I've done MANY things I swore I'd never do. Ha!