No, one can't in theory physically force any age child to breastfeed.

But one can coerce a child into continuing to breastfeed.

One wonders how this could be possible "Goodness, all he'd have to do is
not latch on!"  Sometimes it's not that simple.

I don't know what happened.  but I do know it's entirely possible this
child was guilt tripped and coerced into continuing nursing.  I also know
it's entirely possible his babysitter fed him a bunch of crap about how he
was too big to be doing that and it was time to stop and she'd sure help
him if he liked blah blah blah.

I confess too, due to my own experiences it is only about .01% of the time
I believe a "CPS Stole My Kids for No Reason" story.
-Wendey
Mother of Olivier (5Feb97) and Kay (11March99)
Studying CCE with ICEA
Studying LC Living in the 'burbs of Montreal
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