Sunday, January 31, 2010
social norms
If you are a mom that has breastfed your child past the standard norm in the US, then you are an “extreme” breastfeeder. Get those boobies ready for the X Games!
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I don't know what the norm is on breast-feeding a child, but I would never be caught dead breast-feeding a 5 year old child. Just like I would never bottle feed a 5 year old. I feel it is way to old to be breast or bottle feeding at that age, but then again that's my opinion.
It is the same as a child still wearing diapers, until kindergarten age, even Pullups. There have been known for kids to be in diapers yet at that age too. It is different if there is still a night time problem because a lot of kids have that problem. Their bladder isn't strong enough to hold it all night long. When I was a kid and my kids were kids I wish I had them to help save on mattresses. It can be very embarrassing to wet the bed up to the age of 10, like me. I was an extremely very nervous child and I couldn't hold it at night. When I started developing that is when I stopped.
This is only my opinion here.
hi! i've still be reading but have been horribly absent in the commenting dept. Lack of time will do that to ya!! I have u on my google reader so I always see your posts...
Anyway! I don't know what the hang up is about bf'ding kids past like...i dunno...one year i guess...although i've had the awkwardness before that even. LOL my dad said to me with josslyn..."so how long do you have to do THAT?" heh. he didn't mean anything by it but it was just a funny way to say it. My answer? "until she doesn't want to do it anymore."
Why rush our kids to grow up?!?! this opens a whole new can of worms but it seems like this push to make our kids so independent (sleeping on their own, reading early, weaning early) has backfired. i.e. babies having babies. time to go back to the basics!
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It just has to do with what you're used to. It seems wierd here because most people have never seen a child older than a year breastfed and then add all our wierd sexual hangups about breasts and how they belong to the husband/partner........for most of time in most of the world breastfeeding each child for years is the norm. I remember after Justin was born thinking Leanna seemed so big to have been nursing, but when you're doing it from day to day they're not any bigger or different.
I get what you're saying Sue, but breastfeeding and bottlefeeding aren't equal here because you breastfeed for emotional reasons as well as just for nurishment. Children who are still nursing while older are doing it more for comfort and for a bond. Just my opinion.
I heard comments starting when Leanna was about nine months old!
This may be only me, but whether you breast or bottle fed I feel the same on the matter of age. When a child reaches a certain age, between 2-3, I feel the child is too old to be on the boob or bottle. Now, that is only me saying this. You breast feeders may feel differently.
Years ago the dentist told me that a child on the bottle after all their teeth are in may make their teeth start bucking, like thumb sucking does. My pediatrician felt a child over 2 was too old to be on the bottle. So I broke Billy at the age of 2 and boy was it hell. He cried himself to sleep for a week. I felt so badly for him, but he was very dependent on that bottle and pacifier. Now, Tommy was different. He broke himself of the bottle and didn't like the pacifier at all. When Tommy started chewing off the nipple, then I knew he didn't want the bottle anymore. He made it very easy.
I would be very embarrassed if I saw Leanna still breast feeding at her age, even Justin or Timothy. Jacob is still at the age where he may want it or not.
i think "they" say thumb sucking does nothing negative to teeth now. "they" are always changing their minds about things!!
Well, when I was breastfeeding, I weaned each one at 1 year (except Steph who I weaned at 11 months). And at that time, breastfeeding until a year old was considered too much, most only breastfed for 2 or 3 months. I wish I could say it was an improvement that now it's controversial to be breastfeeding not till a year old, but 3 to 4 years. But too many women still don't breastfeed for whatever reason.
Sue, throughout the ages, women have breastfed until the child was ready to give up the breast which generally was for the first 4 years of life. It was only until big business started to advertise that bottle feeding was better for the baby than breastfeeding that women stopped breastfeeding at all. But it really is best for the child to decide when it is better to stop. If I had to do it over again, that's how I would do it.
Also, don't worry about breastfeeding being bad for the child's tooth developement as it actually helps teeth to develop better and the jawline on a breastfed baby is stronger and the way it is supposed to be so it supports the teeth much better.
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