Sentences with phrase «women wean their children»

(2) The vast, vast majority of women wean their children at or before the first year of life.

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God affirms this when He uses female - specific imagery when relating to His people — like a bear to her cubs (Hosea 13:8), an eagle hovering over her young (Deuteronomy 32:11), a mother comforting and weaning her child (Isaiah 66:13, Psalm 131:2), a nursing woman (Isaiah 49:15) and a woman in labor (Psalm 131:2).

It is my hope that as a result of segments like the one on 20/20 and the fact that more women are feeling comfortable speaking out about long - term nursing (as evidenced by all of the comments and Tweets I received), that others will not feel like they need to be «closet nursers» nor feel pressured by family, friends or society in general to wean before they feel it is right for them and their child.

Most American mothers wean their babies well before a year; Some women wean out of necessity, due to inability to breastfeed or technical issues related to nursing; Some children wean themselves, which causes some mothers elation and others, absolute sorrow.

The authors of The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning say women who have not breastfed are four times more likely to develop osteoporosis later in life.

Although many have quit breastfeeding before their children reach the one or two year recommended milestones, for the few women who do continue to breastfeed their babies into toddlerhood it can be very difficult to make the decision about when to wean.

In Bible times, women didn't wean their children until after 2 years old — perhaps longer.

You can look to your partner, family, friends, and other women who have weaned their children for support.

Women who have recently miscarried or weaned their child may also be affected by postpartum depression.

I've spent hours in conversation with women who deeply regret giving into the pressure that led to an early weaning of their children.

A brief look at the correlation between reduced rates of nursing and female and child pathology reinforces the connection between the lack of breastfeeding and impaired female function Not nursing and early weaning early have far reaching and long standing negative implications for women.

It's simple - most women breastfeed through a pregnancy because they're not ready to wean their older child.

Some women decide to keep breastfeeding during pregnancy, because it was just too hard to wean the nursing child.

A lot of woman these days are doing the «self wean» approach basically it's letting the child breastfeed until they are ready to stop, basically not forcing the issue.

And for me I connected with a bunch of women who wanted to practice child weaning and it was very easy for me, well it was very difficult for me when I first started breastfeeding I was like I want to make It a year.

I think that is why a woman is considered a maineket or nursing mother for purposes of fasting until her child is two, even if she is not nursing, because in theory a weaned child could revert to nursing.

While some women begin to wean right away to prepare to go back to work, others may wait until their children are toddlers before fully weaning.

Despite the fact that the biologically normal age of weaning frequently happens anywhere between ages two and seven, in our society, women who let our children nurse until they self - wean are frequently considered as selfish, crazy, or worse; stereotypes heartily reinforced by the media.

Most women in human history would not have had enough nutrition available to nurse two children at once (which is probably part of why twins were considered unlucky in many cultures), so the older one would have to wean.

I wish I had been one of those women, a woman who could choose when to stop nursing rather than to have that choice / time forced upon me by my children.I don't think I'll ever quite get over the fact that both of my children self weaned at such a young age.

I know two women in real life and many that are part of online breastfeeding communities that breastfeed their children to natural term (when the child decides to wean).

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Some breastfeeding women don't get their first periods until they wean their children!