Extraordinary breast feeding.

The World Health Organisation recommends mothers breast feed their children until the age of two - but in our culture that is far from the norm. Here, a group of women discuss their decision to continue breast feeding for as long as their children want. Veronika breastfed her first daughter until she was five and is currently still feeding her second daughter who is now seven. Sophie is a mother of two-year-old twins, demand feeding them up to 20 times a day - she goes through the process of weaning them during the course of the programme. Delores is still breast feeding her four-year-old son and is about to adopt a Chinese girl who she also hopes to feed herself. In between these stories which are each in their own way problematic, we hear from Kirsty, who works for an organisation that helps teach young mums how to breastfeed and is breastfeeding her own daughter at nearly two - she hopes that proposed changes to the law will make it an offence to prevent breastfeeding in public places. Kirsty and the other mothers in her pro-breast feeding group provide a much more positive set of role models for anyone considering long-term breast feeding than the other case studies included here, which, it could be argued, would only give fuel to the fires of those who find the idea of breast feeding problematic.