The daughter is 15 months old, and actually I'm quite fed up with bf myself, but still do it evening and weekends, trying to keep it to only in my own home.
I'm having a hard time and feel quite torn about it.
I'm not really talking much to people about it, other than my husband or friends I asked for advice.
I'm living in a different country to my family, so they see me twice a year. Last time was when the little one was 10 months old, and apart from my teenage niece who was weirded out, nobody had a problem with it. I'm discrete and not evangelical about it. I never planned to do it that long, but it's more by accident, because it suited us and is less faff than bottles.
Why o why do my mum and my sister have to ask me every bleedin time we talk on the phone whether I'm still breastfeeding? And when I say yes, pass judgement and tell me to stop, because the daughter is allegedly too old, and has teeth and bites. Well she has teeth, but she doesn't bite. But since I'm not in yer face about it all, why bring it up? Why criticise? And why do they not understand that it's not as easy as simply not doing it anymore? I don't think my sister's experience of weaning my niece onto the bottle at 4 months is comparable with trying to wean a toddler.
My mum in the mean time started to understand that it's pissing me off and became a little bit more supportive, but I resent that the rest of the world sees me as a crazed lentilknitter who either forces her boob onto her child for her own gratification or who is simply a pushover who's got no control.
I find it pretty hurtful. And I don't get why they can't leave me alone about it, when I neither preach about it nor force them to watch it.
It seems I can't do nothing right.
AIBU?
to not want to be asked whether I'm "still" breastfeeding?
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