Breastfeeding age limit law

Are there benefits to breastfeeding children up until the age they start school?

A mum who breastfeeds her five-year-old daughter and two-year-old son, sometimes at the same time, says it's good for their health because her children are rarely ill.

Emma Shardlow Hudson, 29, said she is positive it's "because of the antibodies in the milk".

Advice in the UK is that women can breastfeed for as long as they and their child want to.

The NHS does not specify a time when women should stop giving their child breast milk.

Breast milk is recommended exclusively (with no other food or drink) for the first six months of a child's life and then alongside other solid food from six months onwards for health reasons.

Experts agree that there are positive health benefits for both the child and the mother.

Breastfeeding is known to provide protection against infections, diarrhoea and vomiting in babies and it is thought to reduce the risk of obesity and o

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