Breast feeding toddlers

Some Australian mothers are breast feeding their children past the first two years of their child's life and well into childhood.

For many parents it is a confronting scene and not a very common sight, a child hopping up on mums lap for a feed. For Alison Veitch and her five-year-old daughter Jasmin it is a daily ritual.

"I don't want to feel ashamed and I don't want other people to feel ashamed and feel they need to, what we call, closet feed," Ms Vetich said.



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