When is it enough? Breastfeeding

[futuresoptions]

Little feller has a beer belly already... Don't know why...

[944Larry]

Originally Posted by mikester

Are ya seriously asking or making fun at the Time magazine cover (which is humorous and interesting and serious).

This may be an over share but both my boys were breastfed until they were past 2 years old.

It was a serious bonding experience for my wife and those boys. My oldest stopped getting it because my wife's Dr. told her she might need to stop it to get knocked up again. He wasn't exactly 'ready' from his own point of view. My youngest mostly moved on from it on his own (he's almost 4 now).

My wife is also a lactation educator and she has helped hundreds of women (at least) with their breastfeeding. Apparently it's harder than it looks (that's what she said!).

Still; honestly DUDES.

What the hell is wrong with you people to really question anything about breastfeeding? Sure - seeing that kid (who looks as big as my youngest) hanging off that nipple is unusual but isn't this something between the parents and the kids? Breastfeeding is one of the most healthy things a mom can do for her kids ever. Period. At no point, regardless of age would I question it. I might not be comfortable with a 13 year old breastfeeding but I suspect that doesn't happen often. I've known a lot of granola style moms who don't kick the kids off her boobs early and I think the oldest I've seen out in the wild is around 4. By then, the kids themselves are ready to move on.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen people offended by a woman breastfeeding her child in public. Covered up or not - it's freaking beautiful and should be celebrated not covered up.

Lighten up America and leave the mom's alone.

Also - the topic in the magazine is 'Attachment' parenting and I think it's a pretty interesting and valid parenting concept. I've practiced some of the concepts myself with my boys.

TAKE THIS TO THE BANK!

BREASTFEEDING IS GOOD. DO IT AS LONG AS THE KID WANTS TOO AND AS LONG AS YOU CAN.

By the way, I'm totally a boob man and both my boys are too.

I wasn't breastfed though.

Hit the nail on the head here Mike. I can't for the life of me see why people would get bent out of shape over breast feeding a baby. Little guys have got to eat when they're hungry. As far as this guy in the picture as being "too old", that ain't my kid or my wife. She can do what she wants. Americans have got to where they gripe about anything. Makes us look like a bunch of dummies at times.

[epbrown]

Originally Posted by 944Larry

Hit the nail on the head here Mike. I can't for the life of me see why people would get bent out of shape over breast feeding a baby. Little guys have got to eat when they're hungry. As far as this guy in the picture as being "too old", that ain't my kid or my wife. She can do what she wants. Americans have got to where they gripe about anything. Makes us look like a bunch of dummies at times.

I'll chime in with two counterpoints.

1) My first reaction was "what if that picture had shown the woman breastfeeding a little girl the same age?" I never see this issue debated on the subject of raising girls.

2) Child-rearing is not gardening, where you're raising something solely for your own consumption. The role of a parent is to raise an independent, self-sufficient adult capable of working, learning, and otherwise interacting with a broad spectrum of humanity for the next 60-something years, not just YOU, and not just NOW.

The world is a meat grinder, and a breast-fed 6 year-old strikes me as veal.

[944Larry]

Originally Posted by epbrown

I'll chime in with two counterpoints.

1) My first reaction was "what if that picture had shown the woman breastfeeding a little girl the same age?" I never see this issue debated on the subject of raising girls.

2) Child-rearing is not gardening, where you're raising something solely for your own consumption. The role of a parent is to raise an independent, self-sufficient adult capable of working, learning, and otherwise interacting with a broad spectrum of humanity for the next 60-something years, not just YOU, and not just NOW.

The world is a meat grinder, and a breast-fed 6 year-old strikes me as veal.

Agree on point 1. On point 2 I don't know if breast feeding a longer time affects a child adversely or not. May be some research out there although I doubt it, too politically incorrect. My main thoughts were that people come out of the woodwork and raise all kinds of hell about it and it seems like a natural process to me. I hardly ever see it being done publicly (altough it was quite open when I worked in Africa) so it seems like a non-issue. I agree this picture was to help magazine sales.

[Rapewta]

My brother, sister and I were breast fed. My two sons and daughter were breast fed. After a year or so it ended.
Solid food, teeth and mommy getting tired of it. Makes sense to wean 'em off.

Seeing someone breast feeding in the public has never bothered me.

I think the magazine editor blew it with a little boy. Should have had a girl and never admitted that it was her daughter. It is all about the shock value.
Would have sold to a wider group.

[Laneco]

Originally Posted by gr8fl4porsche

Do women with large breasts produce more milk than those of a more modest size?

It seems to work that way with dairy cows. Holsteins have big udders and can drop 10 gallons of milk a day. But with humans - the size of size of the ta-tas does not really seem to correlate with production. I've seen large breasted women who don't make diddly for milk and small/average breasted women that make enough for several children.

I guess it's like having an RPM engine instead of a large displacement one! Size does NOT always count.

angela

[flatbutt]

It would be interesting to track these kids and see:

1 how old they are when they move out and stay out of M&D's house
2 how much college debt they accrue and how much they actually pay back

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

It would be interesting to track these kids and see:

1 how old they are when they move out and stay out of M&D's house
2 how much college debt they accrue and how much they actually pay back

You're just as silly as Mikester. Go away.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

A year at most is good and is more than enough to provide beneficial antibodies, etc.

It's just boobies - I don't know why we're so hung up on them in this country. Go anywhere else and women sunbathe topless, walk around topless sometimes, etc. we're quite corny and repressed here in the USA.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

we're quite corny and repressed here in the USA.

That would be due to the corn lobby.

Oh, and the Puritans. Remember them? They got shipped out here because Europe couldn't stand them.

[mikester]

Originally Posted by Zeke

You're just as silly as Mikester. Go away.

If I'm silly for supporting breast feeding then you're the inquisition.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by mikester

If I'm silly for supporting breast feeding then you're the inquisition.

You're not silly for supporting anything, but your diatribe was over the top. Let it go.

I think breast feeding comes and goes. My generation probably was switched to formula by the time we got home from the hospital (in those days it was 3 or more days). It also was an economic thing back then where some poorer folks didn't have much choice. If they did, they bought formula. The formula manufacturers did a good job of marketing their product pushing it on TV and to the medical profession.

The hippy era brought back more awareness for breast feeding. The boomers started challenging any and every American institution. They wanted to have all clothing made from hemp fiber and began the whole organic deal in a broader sense.

Of course a few were also feeding their children 2nd hand drugs. After that came the more health conscious generation X. And so on and so on.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by epbrown

I'll chime in with two counterpoints.

1) My first reaction was "what if that picture had shown the woman breastfeeding a little girl the same age?" I never see this issue debated on the subject of raising girls.

2) Child-rearing is not gardening, where you're raising something solely for your own consumption. The role of a parent is to raise an independent, self-sufficient adult capable of working, learning, and otherwise interacting with a broad spectrum of humanity for the next 60-something years, not just YOU, and not just NOW.

The world is a meat grinder, and a breast-fed 6 year-old strikes me as veal.

[126coupe]

hope that kid knows how to **** in a toilet

[Schumi]

I'll take an even harder, broader stand and extrapolate this out more just for my own enjoyment:

Children (people) should come to be self-sufficient at younger and younger ages as mankind evolves, not older and older ages. From stopping breastfeeding earlier to learning to read earlier all the way to moving out of your parents house earlier- it all relates.

Kids stay living with their parents till they are 18 now? F that, move out and move on when you're 15.

Mom cooks dinner for you until you're 14? Too bad, find food on your own by the time you're 8 or starve.

Sucking on a tit till you're 4? Mom should have other things to do besides keep you happy; you have teeth, eat this pop-tart instead.





Yea, I'll be that ass. For the good of mankind.

[RWebb]

it's a pity that Lubey dropped off this board and is not around to discuss his... ah, proclivities in favor of breast milk

[Zeke]

hehe, a cow with a horse face.

Can we load those with beer?

[tabs]

When your 65 or when Mother dies...whichever comes first.

[Zeke]

I knew that was coming. I had an uncle that was like you, tabs.

[JavaBrewer]

Lots of good with breast feeding but only if the Mom is into it. We had to cut my son off at age 2 - he was in no way slowing down. My daughter decided on her own it was enough at 16 months.

Some folks take it to sick extremes. Sad - it's such a natural and good thing.