Ok???

Its not controversial so breast feed a BABY!! But breast feeding a 3 year old is really dumb!!! It might mess up his mind development!! shes crazy!

I do not agree with the co-sleeping arrangement at all. I’ve seen shows regarding this on television and I have NEVER seen one where the father is happy with the arrangement. We all have our opinions but this is how marriages break up. How good can it be for the child if the parents are no longer intimate and a couple? Children do not belong in the marriage bed.

The reason so many people think breast feeding is controversial is becasue the media and the world view breasts as sexual. The purpose of breasts are to provide nourishment for a baby. This child eats solid food and has no need for breast milk. This is taking attachment parenting too far. It is not unnatural for a child who has been encouraged to continue breast feeding to want to do it. The mother here is the one who has the attachment problem, at some point we have to accept that our babies have grown up to a new stage of development, she should focus on the positives of having a 4 year old and stop trying to live in the past.

Unless its only every once in a great while when they’re scared after a nightmare :)

i believe that breastfeeding is natural, not controversal thing, but there should be some boundaries. my earliest memories is when i was three years old and i’m happy i don’t remember breatsfeeding period, that would be kinda… strange.

it’s not disturbing at all the world health orginization and CDC Recomend breast feeding until age two or after where possible though some moms have to stop early for medical issues or can’t for the same reason at least the kid isn’t 6 years old.

for me it’s amazing but let see.

http://www.zimbio.com/Beauty/articles/m5ONCAypUwx/Radialabs+Instant+Wrinkle+Reducer+Reviews

I hadn’t thought about that side of it. You have a point. BTW – how long does this woman think breast feeding should happen anyway?

My thoughts exactly. We attachment parent inasmuch as we had our son next to our bed when he was an infant, and still respond to his cries at night. He still wakes once a night but usually settles immediately after breastfeeding.
He’s now 14 months old and we’re in a long, slow process of weaning. We’re encouraging him to eat solids and drink goat’s milk (cow’s milk has seemed to give him painful gas), but weaning slowly seems to be what’s best for him.
But I have no desire to have a child who can remember breastfeeding. I know our culture over-sexualizes breasts (I assure, breastfeeding is not a sexy undertaking!), but still, I view my breasts as private and don’t really want my children seeing them or remembering nursing from them!

Apparently, no one was reading Time which is exactly why the editors published it. It was like dumping gasoline all over a simmering fire and then throwing a match on it. We all know what you get. A hell of an explosion. And we all proved we were lemmings. Meanwhile, all of the marketing executives and editors are high fiving each other backstage. I talk about the end of my role as a lemming here:
http://www.themommypsychologist.com/2012/05/11/have-you-seen-enough-of-jamie-grumet-yet/

Time magazine made the choice to put a provocative picture on their cover re this subject. No doubt they expected and hoped for it to evoke controversy. I have no problem with the concept, but I dont need to see it up close and personal. For that reason, I found the cover to be in poor taste. Anything to sell magazines, I guess.

There is no such thing as “super immunity”. A mother who has problems nursing can give her baby enough immunity even if she only nurses for a couple of months. Some nursing is better than none at all. Immunity is immunity,,,no matter how long a child nurses. Has anyone considered putting breast milk in a bottle and freezing it until it is needed? It is better than a mother actually breastfeeding until the kid goes to school! However, all mothers and children should become independent of each other (using their age as a guide), and begin to learn things on their own. I wonder if it is the mothers who need to keep their “babies” close to them for so long? It is like parting with your children when they go to school, high school and university. You don’t like them leaving and you don’t like it because they are no longer depending on you……but they have to grow up sometime. And a child who is nursing longer then when they have their teeth, is overdoing it…..by a lot!

there is nothing wrong with breastfeeding;
its the most natural thing for babies.
no problem with babies
how ever children – that lets measure = how harmful this is
most children start pre school by the aqge of three
breast feeding children definitley inhibits their concept of how normal children drink milk.

these parents that are still breastfeeding thier children at the age of our should have their heads examined.

if you dont think there is anything wrong with this picture-
check back with this child in six years when this picture will follow him for the rest of his life.

Yes, but you stopped once they started sleeping through the night. I did the same thing. Some people have their kids sleeping with them for years — even when they are teens!

And I totally understand sickness and cuddle time. Like I said before, there are always exceptions. I’m talking about fathers being forced to sleep on the couch because all the kids are in their room. I’ve heard of it going to extremes like that.

I understand wanting to give a cold the extra nourishment from breast milk, but if your child is over a year old, you should pump and give it to them that way. And I tried the co-sleeping and now I can’t get my 3 and 1/2 year old out of our bed. I understand wanting to what’s best for your child, but I don’t think this is the way. Their social growth could be stunted

I returned to “Work!” pardon me. :)

You people, really!! My first memory was from 6 months to 1yr old WHILE being breastfed. I can remember the bed, the window, the blanket (which was found in my grandpas garage in a storage bin when I was 16 – talk about a flashback), and even being very unhappy when a man (could have been my biological father) walked in while this was happening. This has not ruined my life! And of all the uncomfortable things in this world, remembering that day is the least of my worries!!!!

I know everyone is different but why the hell would you let a personal issue you have like “oh, that would be weird if my kid remembered sucking on my boobs” stop you from doing what’s right for the child?! The main reason everyone is so freaked out by this is because of how we’ve been socially conditioned to think of boobs. It’s sickening, just deeply sickening. You’re making decisions for your children based off bullshit people! Fear, and misinformation!

I’m not saying everyone should breastfeed til a kid is 4 or 5, because I’m in no position to medically make that proclamation and apply it to a whole planet of people. But then again, our medical establishment is completely corrupt and doesn’t have it all figured out, so you can’t just go trusting “medical info” on this (and a whole variety of topics). But to add to the insanity, you view it as a bad practice, in bad taste, to breast feed a child past a certain point and then FEED THEM THE BREAST MILK OF OTHER ANIMALS?!?!?! REALLY!!?!?! How you don’t see the udder (pun intended) absurdity of this is not beyond me, it’s just fucking sad. Plus for the people who choose to exchange mom’s milk for supermarket cow’s milk, holy gawd, you’re pumping your baby full of shit! Pesticides, puss, hormones, – and you (that is a general you) think this is BETTER?!

Come on’ people – wake up! Admit it, you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about, don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, and you don’t want to admit that for all your trying to do the right thing and play by the rules – you’re wrong! You’re wrong for thinking you’re right and everyone else is crazy, without seeing how your own behavior is reprehensible. And sure I know I sound like a raving hypocritical lunatic because I’m cussing (which must make me ignorant according to a lot of people), and at this point I’m just letters on the screen which means you can scrounge up any ugly image of me and my story you want without consequence. But I’m not that, I’m appropriately outraged at the COMPLETE ignorance that is an epidemic on this planet. I could cry enough tears to flood the planet with how grave a situation I feel this is. And this mess is comprised of small, uniformed, brainwashed thinking like what I see here on this forum.

That’s all, I’m not going to change anyones mind, I know I’m a student of this crazy, ass-backwards world and no one is going to listen to the rantings of a random comment poster without pre-approved credentials. But more people need to speak up (even if your voice shakes) against this idiotic bullshit. We have to wake up… we just have to.