It is unfortunate that when you have your first, everybody is ready to pounce on that vulnerability and push their own ideas and agenda. Now that I'm 22mo (22mo??? how did that happen??) into feeding my second and armed with confidence and knowledge, I have no-one to use it on, no-one is saying anything!

I second surrounding yourself with others, the more you do it and see it, the more ridiculous anyone suggesting you should stop will seem. When people questioned me before 12mo, I'd just kind of gawk and be like oh, no I'm way too lazy to start worrying about cleaning and mixing and heating and carrying bottles now. After 12mo I transitioned my lazy reasoning onto how quick and simple settling, fixing booboos and tantrums was and ensuring a balanced diet with zero fussing. If you turn it on yourself like that, no-one can argue plus you get some publicity for those benefits of breastfeeding lol.

It sucks though, I still remember one cousin saying that at some point it starts to border on pedophilia. I was so shocked, I mean how do you even start to dissect that? The only opinions of any real weight is yours and your daughters and I'm sure she is showing you loud and clear what she thinks should be happening