Sentences with phrase «nursing past a year»

(Did you know that babies who nurse past a year do not need to be supplemented with cow's milk?

My older son continued to nurse past a year, but just morning and evening feedings, and eventually just first thing in the morning.

When I told her, she confessed that her son nursed past a year also and immediately began reciting a laundry list of weaning techniques.

If I nurse past a year, is she going to be asking for «milkies» on her way to the 8th grade dance?!)

I don't understand why nursing past a year bothers so many people.

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

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 wanted to extend the nursing past a year, to possible 24 mths.

I was disappointed that this article calls nursing past a year «extended breastfeeding», when 1 year is the MINIMUM recommended by the AAP, and 2 years the minimum by the WHO.

I nursed past a year because no doubt it is healthier than cow milk.

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Before Shazam, Slim's only forays into Europe were to plough 4.8 billion euros ($ 6.1 billion) into stakes in Dutch operator KPN and Telekom Austria, on which he is nursing huge paper losses after their shares declined sharply in the past year.

The gop has alienated so many people from so many walks of life that the only voter represented by them will be a 50 year old white man who mistrusts minorities and women and unions and non christians and seniors and government employees and teachers and librarians and nurses and postal workers and immigrants and firefighters and I have probably left out quite a few of you who they have managed to insult this past year.

Can't count how many long weekends I worked as a nurse over the past 20 years.

I believe that WIC is beneficial if they can provide lactation services but I really think that they should provide a better package to breastfeeding moms and encourage nursing past one year rather than pushing cow's milk on toddlers.

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.

I owe my consultant, Dr Alison Kinder and the nurses that have cared for me over the past 13 years so much.

Although he was in a nursing home some 2,500 miles away from me for the past few years (not my choice but let's just say it was complicated), I visited him frequently and spoke to him every other day.

This past year, I was part of two significant postpartum hemorrhages, and each time, I did exactly what was necessary and without hesitation can say that we worked quicker and more efficiently than what I have seen in ten years of hospital nursing, but it didn't eliminate the hostile judgment by the emergency response team or the second - guessing by family members.

All I have to go on is anecdotal evidence but my own brood never took vitamins and their iron levels were always normal even though they consumed nothing but breastmilk until almost a year old, and then 4 of my brood nursed for the majority of their calories well past 18 months of age.

Though we're just past National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, breast health is something that women need to think about all year round so I'm really excited to share this Q&A with Cate Mullen, RN, MSN, AOCNS (Nurse Coordinator of the Tufts Breast Center) as part of on ongoing editorial partnership with Tufts Medical Center.

Actually, it all seems somewhat horrifying to me, perhaps because I've spent so much time the past few years hanging around my dad's nursing home, so I'm a bit thankful I probably won't be around to see it (and based on what I observe in nursing homes, maybe we should focus on keeping men alive longer so women, after caretaking for so many years, might have someone to look after them in their old age).

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.

The past two years we have had a lengthy waiting list for maternity care so wanted to identify those who would be unable to pay and offer someone opportunity from the waiting list in a timely manner, but we no longer have the need now to continue with a waiting list due to our addition of a second nurse - midwife.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends nursing for AT LEAST a year, and there are many good reasons for nursing past one year.

In mainstream media, the idea of nursing past the 1 year mark seems absurd.

, 77 percent of mothers nurse at birth, but less than 47percent are still nursing at 6 months, and only 25 percent continue past 1 year.

My career started as a Labor an Delivery nurse and I have now had the pleasure of working with moms and babies for the past 22 years.

If I nurse my current baby past two years am I going to loose friends and have people talking behind my back?

In Bangledesh 90 % of babies are nursed past age two; and in India, let's just say its not uncommon for a 4 or 5 year old to hang out at the breast... regularly.

We don't know if we will be blessed with another baby down the road, but after nursing the past 4.5 years straight and carrying two babies I am more aware than ever of the challenges of multiple pregnancies.

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Stories collected will serve as resource for mothers to reach their breastfeeding goals (whether it be as ambitious as to breastfeed past the first year, overcome the stigma of nursing in public or to simply know it's okay to stop nursing baby when mom is at that point.)

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).

I've only told one friend, because everyone assumed I was long past the nursing years.

I have been pregnant or nursing for the past three years straight.

Both nursed into toddlerhood, and I'm realizing that by the time we're done, I will have been nursing one kid or another for 3.5 of the past 5 years.

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.

My daughter coslept until she was ready to leave our bed (and still spends the occasional night with us when she feels she needs it), was worn often, and nursed past her first year!

Right now I feel that it is the least I can do to comfort my daughter when she wakes up at night, and I hope that as she moves past the nursing years, that my husband and I continue to offer the same support that will help her build confidence and trust.

They did the survey when my son was maybe a year old, and it was all past tense, asking how long we nursed and when we weaned.

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

I am a nurse practitioner, lactation consultant and mother of four who has worked with nursing moms for the past fifteen years.

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

Brilliant article:) I have breastfed two sons past 5 years old so far, and am currently nursing my 4 yr old son.

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!

I nursed all 3 until way past 1 year.

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.

Though nursing a baby past a year is a perfectly wonderful thing to do, it's pretty much inevitable that you'll make some (or all) of the following mistakes if you do.

It is with dismay that I have listened, for the past five years or so, to direct - entry midwives criticizing nurse - midwives as «medwives» and «physician extenders,» and to nurse - midwives talking about professional direct - entry midwives as if they don't know very much, and working in some states to pass exclusionary laws.