You and any number of other mummas who breastfeed and continue to feed past a perceived ok age are changing the world one breastfeed at a time - hopefully the fact that you have continued to feed past your initial goal and have set another will mean that if/when they next see a child feeding past these ages they will be more accepting and if/when they have their own children they will breastfeed and feed past their goals.
With DD I initially set out for 6 months, then it was 12 months then it was that we would breastfeed until it no longer worked for us - we ended up feeding until she was 3 years old and we often talk about when she had mumma milk. My sister had her first child when my DD was 14 months old - she breastfed her DD and said on occasion it was my feeding DD that inspired her to continue. She fed her DD past 12 months and fed her into a second pregnancy, her DD was about 18 or so months when she weaned because of the change of milk due to the pregnancy hormones. Her second DD is almost 12 months old and my sister is aiming for 3 years.
Our other sister FF her first after trying to BF but with her second (born at same time of other sisters first DD) she was inspired to express and fed him EBM for 6 months when she then switched to FF. It was great to see her have a change all because breastfeeding and breastmilk had become a bit more familiar to her.
So you can change the world - one breastfeed at a time.
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