Sentences with phrase «nursing her child past»

It is very encouraging and I am glad I'm not the only mom nursing her child past 2 (especially amid a ton of criticism here)!

As a tandem nursing mama of a 6 month old and 28 month old, I applaud you for so candidly and beautifully describing what it's like to nurse a child past infancy.

And if you are nursing a child past the toddler years, know that you are not alone, there are many of us out there, going with our instincts, and letting our children lead the way.

But I ask you to think outside the box when it comes to mothers nursing their children past a certain age, past the age you feel comfortable with.

Nursing my child past a year is no one's business but my own.

Why, then, is nursing a child past 6 months to one year many times still questioned and even frowned upon?

Pop culture's depictions of extended breastfeeding (which is generally defined as nursing a child past the age of 12 months) are superficial at best, usually meant to elicit a laugh or a horrified gasp.

You can sell a car with a pair of surgically enhanced breasts but god forbid you should nurse your child past a certain «socially» acceptable point.

Some mothers continue to nurse their children past the age when the child is consuming the same food as the parents.

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In a society where people are reported to Child Services for sleeping with their children or nursing them past age 2, it seems laughable to say that no one bashes non-CIO parents.

So I just don't get the «too much pressure to breastfeed» when all around me are images of bottles, ads for formula telling me a happy feeding makes a happy mom, bottlefeeding moms, moms and doctors and nurses telling new moms that formula is «just as good» and «not to feel guilty», women getting «the look» for nursing in public, or feeling weird about doing it (I sure did)-- to me, any pressure out there is NOT to breastfeed, or do it as little as possible (not if it's not immediately easy or you don't love every minute, not past 6 mos, not in public, not around male relatives and friends, not around children, not if you ever want to go out alone sometime...)

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.

Now that I think about it, I have only found one peds doc who was an expert on breastfeeding and I think that was only b / c she was, herself, a waterbirth and breastfeeding advocate, having had waterbirths and nursed each of her children past the age of one (not an easy task when you're an Army doctor and deployable).

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

If you can get past learning to nurse while sleeping and wild toddler sleeping arrangements, 13 continuing to share sleep with your little one may help your whole family sleep better into your child's preschool years and beyond.

As he slowly changes into a child he is slowly moving past nursing, but there are still moments when only mama's milk will do.

Our topic at La Leche League of Mt. Lebanon this past week was Full - Term Nursing and Child - Led Weaning (if you know me, you know I cringe at the term «extended nursing» because there's really nothing «extended» about it and I really don't like what that phrase imNursing and Child - Led Weaning (if you know me, you know I cringe at the term «extended nursing» because there's really nothing «extended» about it and I really don't like what that phrase imnursing» because there's really nothing «extended» about it and I really don't like what that phrase implies).

Both of my children have nursed well past our national breastfeeding average.

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The book discusses cultural and historic practices about nursing and weaning (human children were nursed well past their second birthday for thousands of years before the advent of formula).

Clearly written, referenced book discusses child - led weaning, which typically means nursing past the first or even second birthday.

Seriously, this article is suggesting no night time nursing for 4 - 6 month old?!?! Only do this is you want to have a diminishing supply and no goal of breast feeding your child past 6 months because this is a sure way to lose your ssupply!

Just a: (to the nursing way too long mum... the child does not need to nurse past 2.

We all know that children's immune systems aren't as strong as adults» — maybe that's part of the reason children so often have the need to nurse past infancy and toddlerhood.

I nursed my first child well past the «norm» and am doing the same with my younger child.

Finally, we also support parents who nurse long past infancy here — breastfeeding past infancy is normal and beneficial to both mother and child, and we absolutely support breastfeeding until the CHILD is ready to wean (whether that's at 2 orchild, and we absolutely support breastfeeding until the CHILD is ready to wean (whether that's at 2 orCHILD is ready to wean (whether that's at 2 or 7!).

I would tell my younger self to have a more open mind about children nursing past age 3.

If you're a mom already breastfeeding a child past one year of age or a mom breastfeeding a younger baby, but thinking about extended nursing, take heart in knowing that there are others out there like you and that what you are doing with and for your child is valuable and worthwhile!

, although by that time I'd mostly stopped telling people she was still «doing that» — except for my sister, whose two biological children both nursed past their fourth birthdays:D One of the things I'm happiest about is that she nursed long enough to really remember the experience — when she's old enough to nurse her own babies, I hope she'll still remember, and be encouraged to let them wean on their own terms.

Whether we're the primary caregivers and stay at home taking care of our children, or whether we're working outside the home, continuing to nurse past that first year maintains that connection that would be so easy to inadvertently let go of.

Nursing past a year continues to provide children with nutritional benefits.

That being said, sometimes our partners really need some extra empathy, and past baggage, such as not having been breastfed themselves, or trauma around their relationship with their own mother, comes up really strongly for them when they see their child lovingly cradled and nursed in mama's arms.

I co-slept with my second child since I work full time and was able to nurse past a year (I chose to discontinue at 13 months).

I also want to state that with families on both coasts and some in between, with two small children I have nursed on many flights over the past few years.

And of course, you can continue to nurse past age 1 if you and your child want to.

In the Pacific islands, it is VERY common to nurse your child until he or she is past one year old.

I nursed past one because... my mum breastfed, because it has so many health benefits to mother an baby and because it is the cure all for ANY problem with a child.

No doubt, if a mother wishes to nurse her child beyond the first few months when her baby is small, she will need to prepare herself mentally for the likely disapproval of a misinformed public that still is not at all accepting of the many benefits of extending the breastfeeding relationship well past a child's first birthday.

I nursed past one because it was not the right time to stop, my children have all found it to be a great source of comfort and closeness.

I nursed past one because the unplanned but intentional parenting choices that we made deeply connected me to my children.

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.

The Missouri KIDS COUNT team has spent the past few months telling the story of Missouri's school nurses because we believe, and these articles have shown, that school nurses are uniquely positioned on the front lines of our children's health.