.  She  has had three toddlers breastfed in her entire career - and she's 
been  working for over 20 years.  This is a higly affluent, middle class 
area  with a high proprotion of intelligent older mothers.  If anyone should 
be seeing higher rates of toddler breastfeeding, she should.  Mine being 
the third in her career, makes me sad.

Morgan

The problem is that the mothers aren't  telling  the HV.  The mothers are 
out there doing it [or in there doing it] . So the HV doesn't know.  They 
are probably  pretty healthy  and hitting the  milestones so   the HV 
wouldn't be worried about them.    If  you hadn't needed to  tell her  would 
you have done? It's quite understandable that mothers don't  tell the HV  if 
they don't  need to, if they are fearful of the  response.
 2nd time round  I was  more laid back, and remember one time when sitting 
in the  refreshments area of the toddler group  with a nursing 2 year old, 
another mother [of a 3 year old] came and said 'I thought I was the only one 
in the world still feeding a toddler'. The HV didn't know, the doc didn't 
know, no one knew.   We chatted and I lent her  mothering your nursing 
toddler, and the little girl nursed until around her first birthday.   I 
still see them around and  usually  have a little chat.  I guess you've got 
to  pick a spot where you will feel safe.
A local   social worker I know  also bf hers  well into toddlerhood, so if 
it ever comes up in her area she is a great resource for  her colleagues

Helen 

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