the weirdest thing i have ever seen

[the outlaw torn]

was channel surfing the other nite as ya do when nothing is on and stopped on e4 i think it was for a second, saw the show was called breastfeeding or something and was just about to move on when i saw what was on screen was a bit weird looking so i brought up the show info. and my god what the show was about was one of the freakiest things i've seen. it was about women who breast feed until the kids get tired of it. one women was breastfeeding a 10 year old i think!! i was freaked out and also unable to stop laughing, it was just like in little britain. anyone else see this.

[DHBH]

bitty mummy bitty! our neighbours had to cut the apron strings with their kid sleeping with them when he was like 8. never breast fed i dont think but it was just convenient for them to have kid with them when he was toddler waking up in middle of big old house.

as or these kids....were they american and did they do it in public? and did their mums have saggy tits or more than one child of "breast feeding age" at any one time?

[Tree]

well there have been documented cases of women breastfeeding offspring of forty or so years of age.


ALSO, you can stimulate a male to produce milk, there's some african tribe where the chief breastfed all his children

[Jack B. Badd]

well there have been documented cases of women breastfeeding offspring of forty or so years of age.



Those offspring being male, right?!

[JennyPen]

I know of someone who was fed until they were six.

It destroys your teeth, breastmilk is too sweet!

[Tree]

yup, dunno why.

[pablo]

One of my regular lines : Milk is only for babies. It's supposed to be for young animals, humans/cows whatever. I don't drink milk, but do eat other dairy prodcuts like yogurts/cheese etc.

As for breast feeding kids for so long ... simply weird. :nope:

[JennyPen]

I don't mind having a wee bit of milk in my tea, or in my cereals, and damnit when you're in a country wheret hey've no fecking cows for 6 weeks, you really bloody appreciate it when you get home and you can have a bowl of ice-cold milk and corn flakes. mmmm.

But breastmilk is just wrong. Like Maedhbh said, it's Bitty all over again. Ugh!

[karilyn]

you can stimulate a male to produce milk

some people have it has a side effect to some medicines.
but did any one see the huge TONNE size man on the documentary on E4, v. werid!

[Tree]

umm you dont make em lactate by makin em fat (though fat males do have much more oestrogen)

by sucking on hte nipple you can stimulate them

[JennyPen]

by sucking on hte nipple you can stimulate them

Well ANYONE of a certain sexual nature (ie, active) could have told you THAT! ;)

[pablo]

but it would probably take a while to produce (any major amounts of) milk. ;)

Does anyone have any info/links about men lactating ?

1 link I found (http://www.blather.net/shitegeist/1997/05/milking_men_cow.htm) :umm:

[JennyPen]

but it would probably take a while to produce (any major amounts of) milk. ;)

I think that's about the most suggestive thing you've ever said on the public forums, you dirty man!!

Apparently (for I went looking after going to that link) there is indeed something very messed up going on, and someone wrote an article (A Mr. Conner) in the Sunday Times called "The Age of Breastfeeding Men is Nigh", but I haven't been able to locate it!

[Jack B. Badd]

Doesn't it not have all the nutrients and what-not that mammy's milk provide and sprogs require?

[Tree]

its not as good as mammy milk coz daddy glands arent as well developed but itll still support a growing babby