Employed moms should not have to continue to express
milk for their children past the age when it is needed and they should not have to jump through hoops for their children to continue to enjoy a health promoting breastfeeding relationship.
Though no conclusive studies have been done to identify the immunological components of breast
milk for children past 2 years of age, there's no reason to suppose they stop cold turkey once baby reaches a certain age.
Not exact matches
This is a bit of a generalization based on
children I've known over the
past few years, but it seems that
children who are over the age of 15 — 18 months or so when the
milk dries up have such an emotional attachment to nursing that they want to continue to do it even though there's no more
milk for them.
It seems to be more common or well known these days that breast
milk is still beneficial
for children past 12 months.
Breastfeeding
past two years is called extended breastfeeding or «sustained breastfeeding» by supporters and those outside the U.S. [82] Supporters of extended breastfeeding believe that all the benefits of human
milk, nutritional, immunological and emotional, continue
for as long as a
child nurses.
Donations of infant formula and other powdered
milk products are often made, whilst experience with
past emergencies has shown that without proper assessment of needs, an excessive quantity of
milk products
for feeding infants and young
children are often provided, to the detriment of their well - being.