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here's some of Mya nursing. I have one somewhere of me nursing Lily when she was a newborn but I don't know where it is at the moment. Mya is almost 10 months old in these pics.








you can see in the last picture her playing with my hair, she is always moving and playing with my shirt, hair, necklace, etc while she is eating.

 

Thank you! I loves them!!

This is Ayla Rain (pronounced like eye-la):



And this is Mavi River:

 

Nora usually plays with my other nipple when she can reach it. Not very comfortable.:toetap:

 

Ok so I'm being judgemental. Big deal. When the kid is school age, the kid should eat regular normal food. I don't think anything bad of you at all. And if you think I do, I'm really sorry for that. What about when the kid is in school or hanging out with his (or her?) friends? You gonna pull them out of school to breastfeed them, or embaress them in front of their friends? Or maybe you do the homeschooling thing. Which I sincerely wish I could do, so my kid wouldn't get sick as often. Well I'm sorry if I got on yours (and other ppls bad sides here) but I was just sharing & expressing myself. And just out of curiousity, I will ask my doctor. Peace out

 

I doubt she was still fully breast feeding her children when they were seven years old. I'm pretty sure that brest feeding at that age is a more intimate thing that's not necessarily practiced in public. I am planning to bf Nora for a long time, although I can't imagine breast feeding a school child. Having said that, before I had my baby I though 9 or 10 months are "normal" and then when she was that age I was like "why stop? we still love it?" I think long term breast feeding is something that you grow into, not something that you're planning.

 

Most children that breastfeed at school-age, do so merely for comfort, and maybe, at most, 2-3 times a week. These are usually the same kids that would be uncomfortably shy, thumb-suckers, awkward. That added security of knowing they have access to what comforts them most helps them to really come out of their shells more. Plus, in the case of famine or extreme illness in the child, breast milk helps ensure survival.

 

I find breast feeding past the need to basis is just a way for the mother's to hold onto their babies. You say that it offers comfort to your child but I am sure a nice hug, kiss, or cuddling can insure the same sense of security. After awhile breast milk starts to loose its nutrient value and just becomes liquid that well is doing nothing really. (as far as nutrition goes). I think that many mothers who prolong breast feeding past its needed stage just want to keep their children as their little babies instead of accepting the fact that they are growing up. The children breast feed simply out of habit.

 

* quietly tiptoes out of the room before the fighting begins*

 

And where exactly did you read that "fact"?:bigear:

LaLecheLeague has this to say:

Which means, that the breast milk changes all the time and adapts to the child's nutritional needs.:H

 

Yeah but when your child can eat solid foods, they don't need it. It is just a way for the parent to hold on.

 

What do you define solid foods as? Pablum? Cereal? Fruits and Veggies, but in what form? You are walking a very slippery slope, my dear... I hope you brought your harness.

 

I am talking about it all. Once they start eating like an adult. Having full meals.

 

My son ate curried chicken with yams, lentils, red pepper and couscous for lunch with a mangos, peaches and kiwi for desert. Thats a pretty adult meal in terms of content and flavour.

 

Then why are you still nursing him?

 

Just as long as the baby is loved and cared for, and gets what it needs, it doesn't matter.

 

Right. its not breastfeeding that is the problem, its more how the mother is toward the child that count, if she swarm the child too much or not and keep the child as a baby in other ways and in other aras than when breastfeeding him or her.

 

I have nick names that I still call my kids. If anyone has a problem with it..talk to the hand..because I don't give a damn. Ok, I don't say it out where others can hear so much,but if I did, what's it to them?

 

oh boy, this is looking like fun.
Why do people have to come in here and ruin a beautiful thread?
The benifits of breastfeeding go way beyond just a 1 or 2 year old, the problem is that so many people are part of this westernized society that think it's "weird" to even breastfeed your kids past one year old, let alone longer. I wouls STRONGLY suggest doing your research, jenna, before you start telling informed mothers what is nutritionally right. Breast milk goes WAY beyond nutrition, it also provides antibodies against sickness, and like hippyfreek said, the extra comfort. So what if a mother wants to stay connected to her kids.....why does everyone have to "seperate" and "let go" of their off spring like they are some kind of project that has to be made into a fully independent member of society by the time they are 7???

 

Yeah, and it doesn't matter when your child walks or talks, or when he or she is potty trained that is so damn important. What is the most important is that they do, not when they do. Talking about a time limit here. Everyone is not the same and have their own time frame they do things in.

 

Thats right. i agree to that.