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mammaX3_MOD
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| So if a child can ask for food, she shouldn't get it? That's where the trail of logic leads. |
I promise that's not what I meant at all. I just meant that I wouldn't want my baby to get all grabby at the goods in public.
I hope I didn't come off as too much of a Bee-Yotch  on my last BF post.
After thinking about it last night, I wanted to reply back that I think it's great to breast feed as long as possible. I just meant that if I had BF'd (believe me, I wanted to, but my loser boobies couldn't produce enough milk to keep a deer tick alive, let alone a baby), I would have done so for a long time, too, but by probably 15+/- months, I'd probably pump and bottle/sippy cup-feed the nutritious stuff, rather than hoisting my tank of a girl onto my lap to feed her. Scout, I think it's awesome that you BF'd til 3, but my older daughter is turnig 3 on Sunday, and I wouldn't hoist her up to my bosom right now, no way. Did you put your 3 year old to the BREAST, or was it in a cup? Not being bitchy, just curious.  |
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Scout
Queen of Imperfection
Joined: 20 Dec 2002
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Location: home of the blues
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No, I didn't think you were being bitchy. I just think a lot of people haven't been around ebf, so it seems weird. All I can say is that it's the same baby you've been nursing all along, so it doesn't seem weird at all. It's not like suddenly starting to nurse a child at 3. 
I did nurse Somerset directly until her third birthday. My kids are really petite, especially her (now at 4 she weighs maybe 35 lbs, tops), but I'm not even sure if size would have been a factor for me. I nursed my oldest for 27 months. My second I n ursed for only 14 months, until the day Somerset was born, and believe me, I really felt the lack of that parenting tool with him in toddlerhood! And of course he was my hardest toddler (lots of preverbal frustration, late talker). Somerset, like I said, nursed right at 3 years (Since she and Joshua were only 14 months apart and I got pg with her without my period ever having started back up, I went 3 1/2 years with no AF! It rocked), and I am currently nursing #4 who is almost 6 months old (already! I can't believe how fast it's going with her). I'm sure I will nurse her at least 2 years, and possibly to 3. |
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becky2005
Seen Better Days
Joined: 17 May 2005
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Location: Baltimore area
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| I don't know, I look at Liz at 18 months and she's still a baby. I don't get it why people get all in a tizzy about little people breastfeeding. They're babies for a lot longer than we are willing to accept! |
I'm with you PP! At 16 months Michael is supposed to be a toddler...yes, he's walking and "toddling" around, but he's still a baby. Why is society in such a hurry to make him a big boy?? My mother said something to me about how I wouldn't need a crib for the new baby since I could just move MJ to a bed and give the baby the crib. WTF??? He'll only be 20/21 months when his sister is born and I want him contained in his crib at night until he starts climbing out of it
Oh, and the flight attendant is a total spaz. I always marvel at how violence is so accepted in our society but a nursing woman offends people. |
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