Aussie actress Teresa Palmer has slammed those that judge and shame her for breastfeeding her toddler.
In a blog post on Your Zen Mama, the actress writes that she is regularly the subject “dirty looks, whispers and nasty comments” when she breastfeeds her two-and-a-half year old son Bodhi.
"It’s strange to me to think that we now fall under the “extended breastfeeding” label. He still seems like such a baby to me and is still very dependent on me for so many things," she wrote.
"But having his boobies is certainly his favorite activity and I assume it will be so for much longer."
"I am personally really inspired by the idea of letting Bodhi choose how long he breastfeeds. Right now I can’t imagine stopping breastfeeding, in fact thinking about our breastfeeding journey ending makes me feel really sad but mainly I can’t see anything in Bodhi that indicates that he is close to being ready to stop and I believe in allowing things to organically unravel in the way they’re supposed to," she continued.
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That is so nice to read. I stopped at 20 months after caving to family pressure. I wish I had continued. My best friend was breast fed until she was 4, my cousin until he was 3 and my other cousin until he was 5. They're all lovely, normal people and are academic high achievers (2 are doctors and 1 is s pilot). Extended breastfeeding did them no harm.
Baby needs food, feed baby. What's the problem?
I'm assuming the uproar was because the child is not a baby, they are 2 and a half years old.