
“I breastfed my little girl as much as she wanted: at the age of 9 she told me that she no longer wanted milk from her mother.”
Sharon Spink, a 50-year-old mother from North Yorkshire, has recently made headlines for challenging one of society’s most deeply rooted taboos about motherhood: breastfeeding older children. For most mothers, breastfeeding ends when a child turns one or two. But for Sharon, the journey continued far longer. She nursed her youngest daughter, Charlotte, until the age…