Child nursing refers to the specialized care and treatment provided to infants, children, and adolescents by trained healthcare professionals. It involves ensuring the physical and emotional well-being of children, monitoring their health, administering medications, and providing support for their families.
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I always enjoy reading articles that address toddler and
young children nursing, as these articles seem so few and far between in the general discussion of nursing.
Most children nurse or take a bottle to keep stored feelings under control, and not for the nourishment, so your child will most likely refuse the substitute nutrition.
Or perhaps, like many breastfeeding mothers, you acknowledge that a shift in the mother -
child nursing dynamic can occur on either side of the equation.
The status of «nursing mother» has more to it than just considerations of family purity and protection of the mother /
child nursing relationship.
They are so reliable that some northern people (like Russia's Chukchi) even used them
as children nurses, and still do.
My
first child nursed for a few months, but my milk supply was constantly dropping since I worked outside of the home.
My middle
child nursed at night until she was 2 to the point where I was exhausted.
I have specialized in
Maternal Child Nursing in a hospital setting for fourteen years, with eight years as a charge nurse on the Obstetrical Unit.
My first
child nursed with a lot of supplementation until six months, when she switched to formula completely.
I love still nursing him, but only a handful of people know and I am too embarrassed to tell everybody... it does make me sad, as I feel that it is the most natural thing in the world, but society frowns upon you for nursing a child
So for the
second child I nursed exculisively the peditrician also wanted me to use formula but after the previous experience I went with my gut, and nursed her for 14 1/2 month.
My first
child nursed so much that I literally felt like I would lose my mind in the beginning.
Perhaps your first
child nursed around the clock for months, while your second slept for long stretches after a few weeks.
Capitulo, K. «Evidence for Healing Interventions With Perinatal Bereavement» The American Journal for Maternal
Child Nursing Nov / Dec 2005.
I have seen a
relatives child nursed until he was about 5, which I thought a little much, as he was very verbal and insistant, whether in public or private.
It might mean nothing to you, but did you know that all of this — every notion you've ever had about
bigger children nursing — is specific to the time we live in, and is completely culturally defined?
Susan Spieker, PhD — President Susan is professor of family and
child nursing at the University of Washington and the Kathryn Barnard Endowed Professor for Infant Mental Health.
If you are only breastfeeding and not supplementing with formula, you should have a strong, steady flow and know what times are best to nurse your child
One mother told me, «My
older child nursed every three hours, so I could complete errands in time to feed him.
While the trope of the «mom who breastfeeds for way too long» and «the bratty kid who breastfeeds for way too long» is relatively new (due, I am certain, in no small measure to increased rates of breastfeeding in the U.S.); around the world and throughout history,
children nursed for way longer than one year old.
Basically, you see a woman sittng very quietly, minding her child,
the child nursing quietly.
my child nursed almost the entire trip..
The American Journal of Maternal and
Child Nursing.
«You can not make
a child nurse; either the child has the need or does not have the need,» Baldwin said.
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal /
Child Nursing.
If you're not planning to be regularly separated from your child, and
that child nurses effectively, you don't need to worry about this at all.