Mom Breastfeeds Teen Daughter

Mom Breastfeeds Teen Daughter

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Emma Shardlow Hudson breastfeeds her daughter Alex (left) and son Ollie.
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A mom who still breastfeeds her 5-year-old daughter before and after school every day claims her milk is so good it has stopped her children from getting sick.
Emma Shardlow Hudson, 29, breastfeeds daughter Alex and son Ollie, 2, in between other meals and sometimes in tandem.
When Alex started nursery school, Emma claims her daughter didn’t pick up any of the same coughs and sniffles as the other children and Emma put it down to her breastmilk.
Alex usually breastfeeds once in the morning and once in the evening and while the little girl can go days without milk she will always want some when she needs comforting.
Britain’s National Health Service recommends that all babies be exclusively breastfed until at least six months old.
Emma said: “It’s one of the biggest achievements of my life for sure, being able to nurture a child with my own body.
“It’s a completely selfless thing to do, but it’s probably the hardest thing I have ever done in my life too.
“Before Alex was born, I wasn’t sure if it was a normal thing to breastfeed for so long.
My kids are rarely ill and I’m almost 100 percent positive that that is because of the antibodies in the milk.
“But it wasn’t even a conscious decision to keep feeding for so long – I just thought why stop when it’s good for them? My attitude has changed over time.
“When she started nursery [school] there were quite a few bugs going around and she had nothing in comparison to her classmates.
“My kids are rarely ill and I’m almost 100 percent positive that that is because of the antibodies in the milk.
“She’s always been a comforted baby and wants milk when she’s upset, but I do think there’s a lot about the antibodies which is really good for her.
“It’s nice for me to be able to provide that for her.
“My husband Stuart [who is a chef] is quite happy with it all. He can see it helps her so he’s like, whatever’s best for her and you, which is what it is.
“He’s not really got any massive opinion on it so long as everyone is happy. Obviously, he knows the benefits of it. He’s really supportive of it.”
To Emma’s knowledge, Alex is the only child in her class who still breastfeeds.
Emma has had more positive reactions to breastfeeding in public than negative but admits it is the negative reactions that have put some of her friends off doing it out of the house.
“Some people just tut and others actually go ‘ugh’ and walk away,” she said.
“It’s not happened often which is amazing. I have friends who don’t breastfeed in public anymore because they’re that scared, which is horrible.
“It’s only happened three or four times in those five years, but if someone is not as confident as I’ve got over time with it they would probably find it quite off-putting.
“Apparently that old phrase, ‘If you’ve got nothing nice to say don’t say anything at all’ doesn’t apply to breastfeeding.
“I have had people come over when I’m feeding the babies in their sling and people come over and go, ‘Oh they’re so lovely, are they sleeping?’ and then go ‘Oh, are you feeding? That’s lovely,’ which is really nice. Then they have a nice reaction so that’s the flipside.
“I’ve had more of those comments than the negative ones, but you remember the negative ones more — they make more of an impact, unfortunately.
“It’s something that should be so normal and it’s what breasts are for ultimately.”
The breastfeeding bond is something that Emma has inherited from her own mother, who breastfed her children until each was 2 years old.
Professional photographer Emma said: “I don’t see breastfeeding as something to be embarrassed about.
“It completely equalizes everyone because all women regardless of background can all do the same thing.
“Lots of people stop breastfeeding at 3 months because they get recommended to stop, which I think is a shame.
“It’s completely a personal choice but so many people who want to breastfeed get told they can’t when, with the right support, they probably could.
“It’s having that all-around support and the confidence to keep going that has been so important to me.”
Although Emma now finds breastfeeding easy, she struggled when she began.
Emma, who gave birth to Alex when she was 24, said: “I did struggle to breastfeed at first. I had wanted a home birth but it was quite traumatic and we ended up in the hospital.
“The midwives are amazing at what they do, but they do not have the time to give comprehensive breastfeeding support.
“I couldn’t get my eldest to latch on properly, and the midwife just grabbed my boob and shoved the baby onto it and it was really painful.
“Luckily there was a breastfeeding support team who stayed with me for more than half an hour and really helped.
“Without that, I wouldn’t have been feeding her.”
Emma has since hosted events such as the Global Latch On, which encourages women to sit together and nurse at the same time while providing support to those struggling.
Breast milk is thought to reduce a baby’s risk of infections, type 2 diabetes, obesity and childhood leukemia, according to the NHS.
New moms also benefit from breastfeeding, which reduces their risk of breast and ovarian cancer, cardiovascular disease and obesity.
However, Emma thinks that Alex will eventually stop breastfeeding on her own.
She said: “Quite a lot of children have weaned by this point, but Alex has always been a massive comfort feeder.
“She’s continuous because it’s not just for the milk — but I do think she’ll stop soon, she’s heading that way.”
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A MUM has revealed how she will miss breastfeeding her daughter after the youngster finally weaned – aged NINE.
Mum-of-four Sharon Spink insisted feeding daughter Charlotte into primary school was completely normal and has cemented a lifelong bond between them.
She said despite doing it for almost a decade she is happy the schoolgirl made her own decision to stop back in September.
Actor mum Sharon, who supports natural term weaning, claims the Charlotte is healthy and rarely gets ill thanks to the beneficial properties of ‘mummy milk’.
And despite facing a backlash from critics who have accused her of child abuse, Sharon, 50, wants to break down the stigma around breastfeeding older children – believing there are many mums out there doing it.
Sharon, from Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire, said: “When I came to have Charlotte, I had decided on natural term weaning. It’s nice for the child to be in control of when they want to wean, rather than forcing the issue.”
She added: “She naturally self-weaned earlier this year. It was a gradual process and her choice.”
“She was feeding about once a month if she wasn’t feeling great or was feeling a bit run down and was going longer and longer without feeding.
“Now she hasn’t done it for about two months.
“She told me she would stop when she was 10 which will be in April next year but it seems to have come to a natural end earlier, although I would have allowed her to continue for as long as she wants to."
Sharon says Charlotte's decision to wean off breastfeeding slowly has made it easier.
She explained: “As she’s been reducing anyway I don’t feel sad about it. If she would have stopped suddenly I think I would have missed it, but it’s just nice that it’s come to a natural end.
“It’s how I envisaged it would end. It was her choice and was done in a very gradual way.
“We haven’t had a discussion about her not doing it anymore. I just hope when she’s older she’ll remember that feeling of comfort and security it gave her rather than it being about feeding.
“We have such a close bond and I’m convinced it’s because of breastfeeding her for so long.
“It cemented our bond and I don’t think that will change now it’s stopped. I think we’re closer because of doing it. I haven’t had any pangs since she stopped and she still comes for a cuddle.
“With Charlotte it about was the security. Children find a lot of comfort in the breast, and the older they get the more it becomes about comfort rather than nutrition.”
Sharon claims Charlotte is very healthy and rarely gets ill due to breast milk’s boost to the immune system.
She said she was determined to breastfeed Charlotte after struggling to do it with her other three children Kim, 30, Sarah, 28, and Isabel, 12.
I have been called every name under the sun. I’ve been told it’s child abuse, I’ve been called a paedophile and told it’s wrong and that I’m a freak.
Sharon, who last year qualified as a breastfeeding counsellor, said: “I breastfed my first two children for a couple of weeks and my daughter Isabel for about six months but I ran into problems and felt like there was a lack of support.
“When Isabel was four months old she lost weight and I had to supplement that with formula.
“I was determined to make it work for Charlotte.
“My initial goal was to get past the six months mark then it became 12 months, then two years which is the WHO minimum recommendation. After that it was seeing how far she wanted to go.
“There were times when I wanted to give up especially in the early days of feeding but you think 'I’m doing this for my child. This is what she wants and I’ll carry on because I know it’s helping her'."
Charlotte started sleeping through the night when she was found but would still come into her mum's bed for a feed.
Sharon said: “Sometimes I wouldn’t even realise and I’d ask her the next day whether she came in in the night to feed.”
By the time she was five, Charlotte was breastfeeding three times a day but over the last four years, this has reduced to just once a month.
Sharon used to feed Charlotte in public places including the hairdressers, supermarket and church but now just does it at home.
She said: “She stopped feeding in public when she was about four or five.
“Charlotte doesn’t talk about it at school. It’s not something that would come up in conversation with schoolmates.
“The reaction I get from within the breastfeeding community is one of support. There were a lot of positive comments.
“Obviously there have been the negatives – usually from typical keyboard warriors who post their opinion."
She added: “I have been called every name under the sun. I’ve been told it’s child abuse, I’ve been called a paedophile and told it’s wrong and that I’m a freak.
“The first time it upset me because I wasn’t used to it but now it’s water off a duck’s back.
“Charlotte knows it’s not true and people I care about know it’s not true.
“I explain to her that they are people who do not know her or us or our situation."
And Sharon's friends and family have been supportive of her decision.
She now wants to raise awareness of breastfeeding older children as she believes other mums are too "scared" to admit they do it.
Sharon said: “I’m sure it’s more common that people think but mums are too scared to talk about it and are scared of the backlash from people that don’t understand that it’s normal.
“I just want to let other mums out there who are wondering ‘should I or should I not?’ that this is normal and this is what children do.
“If they feed for as long as they want to they will naturally wean.
“In a lot of countries it’s perfectly normal to breastfeed older children and they will do it for a lot longer than we do in the west."
She added: “She’s not had an ear infection, cough or cold for a long time but it’s hard to say what the long term health benefits will be as I can’t turn back the clock and see how it would be had she stopped earlier.
“When compared to my other three children I would say she is healthier and doesn’t get as many coughs, colds and tummy aches.
“She’s got all her adult teeth. I’d read when they get all their adult teeth they lose the ability to latch on but it seems to be fine.
“For quite a while she fed on the left side and every so often she’d try the other side and say it tastes different.
“I can’t express milk anymore, but I still was able to produce it when she fed.”
Sharon said Charlotte’s dad, CAD manager Paul Spink, 45, is understanding.
But she admitted her choice to breastfeed Charlotte may have caused a bit of jealousy with her older sister Isabel.
She said: “He just lets us get on with it although he doesn’t really have a choice.”
“Isabel is laid back about it. I think when she was younger it caused problems with jealousy with Charlotte getting more of mummy’s time.
She’s got all her adult teeth. I’d read when they get all their adult teeth they lose the ability to latch on but it seems to be fine.
“We made a point of Charlotte having a feed for half an hour at bedtime then I would sit with Isabel for half an hour.
“There has been the odd time when Isabel said ‘can I have a go? I wouldn’t know how to do it’ and she would pretend to feed.
“I hope that this has helped Charlotte decide if she wants to breastfeed when she’s older.”
Former jewellery maker Sharon said she feels proud about what her body has achieved.
Sharon said: “It feels empowering doing something like this.
“All four of my children were born by c-section and I felt like my body had failed. I hated feeling like that but it was true.
“I’ve grown up and learned so much more now. I look back and I’ve got four healthy children who had they not been born by c-section would not be here today.
“With breastfeeding when it doesn’t happen you feel like your body is not working properly. I tried to breastfeed three children and failed and that made me more determined.
“I feel like my body is doing what it’s supposed to be doing. It’s what breasts are for.
“We have to support mums. It’s about choice.”
The NHS recommends breastfeeding your baby exclusively (feeding them breast milk only) for the first six months, but it's completely up to you to decide when you want to bring it to an end - and there's really no right or wrong way to do it.
The NHS says weaning often happens gradually as your baby begins to eat more solid foods.
They note that solid food shouldn't replace breast milk, as there is evidence to suggest breast milk helps a baby's digestive system when processing solid food for the first time.
"Once they are eating solids, your baby will still need to have breast milk or formula as their main drink up to at least their first birthday," recommends the NHS.
"Cows' milk isn't suitable as a main drink for babies under one, although it can be added to foods, such as mashed potatoes."
You can also combine breastfeeding with formula, too and the NHS says "phasing out" of breastfeeding is often the easiest way .
For example, dropping one feed in the day or at night time.
After around a week, you can begin to think about dropping another.
"If your baby is younger than one year, you'll need to replace the dropped breastfeed with a formula feed from a bottle or (if they are over six months) a cup or beaker, instead," they say.
You can breastfeed for as long as you want , and while the NHS recommends breastfeeding your baby exclusively for the first six months, you shouldn't feel like you cannot continue for longer.
The World Health Organisation says: "Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended up to 6 months of age, with continued breastfeeding along with appropriate complementary foods up to two years of age or beyond."
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