Breast-feeding a toddler, preschooler

Recently a friend of mine Karolina Baszarkiewicz who is a photographer and a mother of two started a very interesting and inspiring project - she is capturing those rare and precious moments of this very closeness between a mother and her baby/child during breast-feeding. Her pictures are very soft and warm and show this simplicity and beauty of spending the time together. What is not so usual the kids are not babies anymore. They walk, they play, they talk. They are two or even three years old. Still on breast? One would ask. Yes. Not too long? No. This is exactly why she decided to make those photo sessions. Because we in our western culture (I don't know much about other parts of the world) do support - even very strongly support - breast-feeding and very often we think it is better then formula, but we support it up to certain age of the baby. Usually it is one year. After that - quit. She writes that some people make very unpleasant comments about those mothers nursing their big toddlers. For some it is disgusting, unnatural, pointless. On the other hand there is also very negative opinion about women who for some reason don't breast-feed at all. Those who choose bottle over breast from the very beginning or just after two or three months. Those are also bad mothers. And who makes those opinions? We, women! We like to judge other women. We don't support different behaviors. And who we are to judge? Breast-feeding is so intimate and so personal and shouldn't be judged. Never. This is my own choice and your own choice. We should believe mothers do have the best intuition what is best for their babies and how long do they want to breast-feed. Whatever they choose they should be supported and not judged. Me myself breastfed both of my kids for about a year, my daughter a bit longer, my son a bit shorter. I felt it was enough. I had enough, my body had enough and my psyche. It was a long and slow process of weaning so no one was heart. Just recently I had a yearly check-up with both of my kids - 1-year-old and 4-year-old. I was quite surprised that I was encouraged to give my toddler fat free cow milk. Why fat free? Now he still drinks the formula and if I start regular milk than it will be whole milk. He does need this milk fat. He is not overweight. Same my daughter. They grow and need the fat for the brain development for vitamins D and other nutrients. On the other hand in different parts of the world kids and adults don't drink milk at all. Kids stop after they stop drinking breast milk. And they can grow healthy (if they don't lack other nutrients, what is not so obvious in certain parts of the world). Anyway, let's support breast-feeding but let's not judge those who never breast-fed nor those who did it for few years.