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by Phil Coleman

A PENRITH mum has appeared on national TV to explain why she is still breastfeeding her daughter who is nearly eight – and why she gave her older daughter breast milk as a ninth birthday present.

Veronika Robinson appeared on the Channel 4 programme Extraordinary Breastfeeding as a passionate advocate of allowing children to decided when they give up breast milk.

Mrs Robinson, a former journalist, her husband Paul, and their children, Bethany and Elizah, are all fans of organic food.

Elizah is approaching her eighth birthday and is not happy at the prospect of giving up her daily feed. “I don’t want to be weaned. I want to breastfeed for ever,” she said.

In the Channel 4 programme, broadcast on Wednesday, Mrs Robinson, 38, spoke frankly about her decision to defy convention.

She was one of several families interviewed after the World Health Organisation recommended that children should be breastfed until they are aged two. All share the belief that children should never be forcibly weaned.

While many people in the UK consider her decision odd, other cultures do not take such a dim view of prolonged breast feeding.

In an interview before the TV programme, 38-year-old Veronika described her reaction when Bethany asked for breast milk for her ninth birthday. “I was delighted, if a little taken aback,' she said.

“I'd stopped breastfeeding Bethany when she was five – though I was continuing to feed her younger sister, Elizah – but obviously she clearly remembered what a wonderful feeling it had been. It was the best thing she could imagine and, presented like that, it seemed like a great idea.”

Veronika, who edits an alternative-parenting magazine called The Mother continued: “My girls were brought up to think it was completely normal to ask for a breast in a shop,” she says. “That’s bad enough when they are toddlers, but when they are big girls, people get freaked out by it.

“I try to be discreet, but we have had some odd looks. People tend to be disgusted and disbelieving.”

“I can’t believe any mother wouldn’t love to hold onto that wonderful feeling you get when you are nursing your own child.”

Despite the Breast Is Best campaign, designed to highlight the benefits of breastfeeding to new born babies, only 68 per cent of mums routinely breastfeed. Of those around 80 per cent give up after just six months.
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You gotta love how the article acts like breastfeeding mothers "give up" after "only" six months, when in fact pretty much every piece of research out there indicates that the benefits of breastfeeding do not increase after six months...in other words, six months is long enough.

I can't even imagine my reaction if I saw an eight year old girl breastfeeding in the middle of a store...
 
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FKAGobucks877 said:
You gotta love how the article acts like breastfeeding mothers "give up" after "only" six months, when in fact pretty much every piece of research out there indicates that the benefits of breastfeeding do not increase after six months...in other words, six months is long enough.

I can't even imagine my reaction if I saw an eight year old girl breastfeeding in the middle of a store...
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I thought it was one year?

Seriously, would you want a kid with a full set of chompers to be latching on at 8, or even 2?

My wife has a friend who breastfed until the kids were 3 or 4. Of course, the kids also sleep in their parents bed all the time. I don't mean they sleep there regularly, I mean they do not have beds of their own by their parents choice.
 
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Here's your real reason why they are still breastfeeding at 8?!

“I can’t believe any mother wouldn’t love to hold onto that wonderful feeling you get when you are nursing your own child.”

Crazy Mommy can't give it up. SHE couldn't ween them. Once again, a clear cut example in this messed up world of "let's not do what is best for our kids, lets think about ourselves first and selfishly indulge in what WE like, and then rationalize our fucked up way of thinking to everyone else and try to pass it off as normal."

On a side note, yay for breastfeeding.......to a certain point.
 
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