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At What Age Do You No Longer Allow
At what age do you no longer allow expressed breast milk? I have a child who is over a year old and I think we need to start regular milk mom is still bringing expresses milk for the child.
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After a year I was required to bring a doctor's note (food program requirement, maybe?). I'll be honest here and say that expressing is a pain in the ass no matter how "good" you are at it. So, it will be rare for a mother to keep it up for longer than 12-18 months.Comment
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If she is still breastfeeding she may want to have only breastmilk. I would not do heated or bottled milk past one. I would do room temp in a cup.
Its not time consuming if you take the convection heating out of it. I'm willing to pass containers back and forth to get free milk.Comment
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Ive had several mom's keep their child on breastmilk well beyond age 2. None of them nursed as far as I know but all of them continued to pump and bring milk. The longest was a for a child that was 4.5 yrs old.
OP~ Why would you want to encourage the switch to regular dairy milk if mom is willing and able to continue giving breast milk? It's so much better for the child.
I would be 100% supportive of the parent wanting to do that!
Warming it wasn't an issue for me as the older the child got the less "warm" it needed to be. When I started serving snack/meal I just plopped the bag with breastmilk into a container of warm water for a few minutes and it was ready to serve in a cup by the time I was serving regular milk to the other kids. Easy peasy
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4.5?!?!?!!Ive had several mom's keep their child on breastmilk well beyond age 2. None of them nursed as far as I know but all of them continued to pump and bring milk. The longest was a for a child that was 4.5 yrs old.
OP~ Why would you want to encourage the switch to regular dairy milk if mom is willing and able to continue giving breast milk? It's so much better for the child.
I would be 100% supportive of the parent wanting to do that!
Warming it wasn't an issue for me as the older the child got the less "warm" it needed to be. When I started serving snack/meal I just plopped the bag with breastmilk into a container of warm water for a few minutes and it was ready to serve in a cup by the time I was serving regular milk to the other kids. Easy peasy
Ugh. I hated that pump with the fire of 1000 suns by the time I was done. We continued nursing, and now at 2.5 I'm pretty sure I'm ready for him to wean completely.Comment
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As long as the mother wanted me to give her child expressed breast milk honestly. Why would a milk from a cow be any better? not even the same species.Comment
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I dunno... I was never a nursing or pumping mama so I have no experience with that but the one I had that still brought expressed milk at 4.5 yrs old was also nursing a younger one at the same time.
She went on to have 3 more kids (and eventually be a SAHM) but apparently she didn't mind pumping. They were a very "crunchy granola" type family so for her if may simply have been something that she wanted to do or something she believed strongly in so to each their own.
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Ive had several mom's keep their child on breastmilk well beyond age 2. None of them nursed as far as I know but all of them continued to pump and bring milk. The longest was a for a child that was 4.5 yrs old.
OP~ Why would you want to encourage the switch to regular dairy milk if mom is willing and able to continue giving breast milk? It's so much better for the child.
I would be 100% supportive of the parent wanting to do that!
Warming it wasn't an issue for me as the older the child got the less "warm" it needed to be. When I started serving snack/meal I just plopped the bag with breastmilk into a container of warm water for a few minutes and it was ready to serve in a cup by the time I was serving regular milk to the other kids. Easy peasy
I would support it for as long as the parent wanted to provide it. It is only our current culture that recommends whole cow milk at age 1. Human milk is much better nutritionally anyway.
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I would let them bring it as long as they want, but around 12-14 months I stop warming and putting it in a bottle and just put it in a sippy cup.Comment
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I guess it would be different if there was a younger. I actually donated to a friend's preemie twins for awhile which is part of why I did it as long as I did.:: ::
I dunno... I was never a nursing or pumping mama so I have no experience with that but the one I had that still brought expressed milk at 4.5 yrs old was also nursing a younger one at the same time.
She went on to have 3 more kids (and eventually be a SAHM) but apparently she didn't mind pumping. They were a very "crunchy granola" type family so for her if may simply have been something that she wanted to do or something she believed strongly in so to each their own.Comment
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I wouldn't put a time limit for expressed milk. I would serve it in a cup though!Comment
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I am with everyone else, why refuse free milk? I wish all of my dcms would pump for 4.5 years, then I wouldn't have to buy any milk. happyface Now, at what age do I refuse to offer a bottle? For developmentally typical children I introduce the cup between 6-8 months, begin weaning off the bottle as food consumption increases, and am done with the bottle around a year, but absolutely no later than 15 months.Comment
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