Pregnant Kelly Rutherford Proud To Be Breast-Feeding 2-Year-Old Hermes

Haha. If the kid can ask for it, he is too old to breast feed. That is just so weird to me to think of a two year still nursing. Just my opinion though.

I think its weird and gross.

neither one of us said anything about it being sexual, we said its weird for an older child to still be breastfeeding. if we found it sexual we wouldn't breastfeed at all. do you find it sexual?
i feel the same way about 2 year olds using a bottle or a pacifier. everyone is aware of the benefits of breastmilk, but there comes a time when breastfeeding should end. we all can choose for ourselves when that time is.

My mother was unable to breastfeed and, while I've rarely seen women out here breast feed past a year, I suppose it's ok as long as Ms. Rutherford is healthy and the child isn't lacking nutrients. I'm no expert, so who knows.

I personally don't have a problem with it...I breastfed my first child until he was 18 months old..I was a young mom and unsure how to ween him off lol and with my second kid I breastfed him just after his first birthday.I don't know if I would go beyond two years old personally..and especially not five years old.

She said it was "gross" and weird. Now why would it be gross unless she was thinking of something sexual? If people think its weird, whatever thats their opinion, but to say that it's gross is just ignorant.

It's true that in a lot of the world, women practice extended breastfeeding, but it may not be for the reasons you think. Many communities don't have access to a reliable clean water supply. Babies and young children are the most at risk from water-borne pathogens, so many mothers will breast feed to give their children the liquid they need. Also, the youngest child, especially if that child is a daughter, often gets the least food if food is scarce. What mother wouldn't feed her child any way she could? And finally, many women breastfeed as long as they can as a form of natural birth control--the only form of reliable birth control they have access to. It doesn't work for many women, but it does for some.

Personally, I think I would have wanted my body back after a while. (I tried--boy, did I try--but I was unable to breastfeed my daughter.) And I think that after some point, three years, maybe, it becomes more about the mother's needs than the child's. YMMV.