Hi Vaishali,
It seems from readin your post that you consider that the main and most
important impact of breastfeeding, even in toddlers is nutritional?? It's my
opinion (based on my research with both adopted children and toddler +
breastfeeding) that the non-nutritional impacts of breastfeeding are
manifold and significant and while the nutritional aspects of breastfeeding
diminish with time some of the non-nutritional aspects do not. I wonder why
they are not considered more important??Perhaps because they are not easily
measured and because many health care professionals are not interested in
them???
Karleen Gribble
Australia


> I maintain my opinion that drinking breastmilk every 1-2 hrs at night at 2
> 1/2 yrs of age has very little physiologic benefit. On the same line,
night-
> time weaning is not going to cause psychological damage as long as the
baby
> is well attached and loved in other ways........ Nighttime feeds at this
age are mostly for comfort
> and not physiologically necessary like in a younger child. Just my 2cents
> worth.

> Vaishali Kute, MD FAAP
> In sunny Atlanta, who nursed her 3 children well into toddlerhood.

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