I really don't see how it is beneficial for either mother or child to breastfeed for this long. Speaking from personal experience, I found I was holding my son back by breastfeeding for 16 months, he was refusing to sleep throughout the night because he was looking for comfort and he wouldn't walk. A week after I stopped breastfeeding him, he did both, maybe this is a coincidence but in my head I feel I did him no favours. Experts believe there are no nutritional benefits from breastfeeding after six months anyway.
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I really don't see how it is beneficial for either mother or child to breastfeed for this long. Speaking from personal experience, I found I was holding my son back by breastfeeding for 16 months, he was refusing to sleep throughout the night because he was looking for comfort and he wouldn't walk. A week after I stopped breastfeeding him, he did both, maybe this is a coincidence but in my head I feel I did him no favours. Experts believe there are no nutritional benefits from breastfeeding after six months anyway.