Quote From: missjane2OK OK OK. Let's BACK, BACK, BACK, BACK, BACK UP! All right I don't even want to go there... BUT Let's retrack and clarify. 1st My first comment was that Mother's who breastfeed older children meaning close to Kindergarden might make an interesting discussion which it has. AND YOU ALL HAVE ENLIGHTENED ME and I WOULD GO AS FAR AS TO SAY SHOCKED ME that you include BREASTFEEDING THE ELDERLY in your pursuit. Now I don't have a problem at all with breastfeeding babies and I am ok with comforting toddlers. I don't think it is sexual at all. NOW I DO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH BREASTFEEDING THE ELDERLY and it is kind of Sexual. And I still believe it belongs on the Jerry Springer show with the adults who wear diapers in public. And if it is not sexual to breastfeed the elderly. It is at least WEIRD. At least in my opinion.
I don't think people would really nurse an elderly person, though expressed breast milk would be ok. It offers a lot of health benefits. It could be fed in a tube if the person was on a feeding tube, it could be fed in a cup or incorporated into a tea when someone is sick. It tastes better than regular cow's milk and is easier to digest, so I can see where it might be of great benefit to an elderly person.
As for nursing kindergarteners, I can't say that I want to do that personally out in public but I don't think it's wrong to do it. I don't have a problem with it but I imagine by the time my son is 3 or 4 he will have weaned already.
