Here is another"great" article on breastfeeding on that same website:
 
Breastfeeding: knowing when to stop...
_http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8123-1599256,00.html_ 
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8123-1599256,00.html) 
 
Some quotes:
 
<<<The question we must ask is whether extended breast-feeding is  more about 
the mother than it is the needs of the child. Certainly, in physical  terms, 
once a child is eating an ordinary, varied diet (ie, well after weaning  on to 
first solid foods), they don’t need their mother’s milk. While it’s  been 
argued that prolonged breast-feeding boosts immunity, the immune system is  
extremely complex, and it’s difficult to say scientifically that any one thing  
categorically improves it.
 
But this has implications for a child’s independence in the long term.  
Learning to look after yourself — which includes, from a young age, feeding  
yourself — is about learning to rely on yourself, and making your own decisions.  A 
child who is breast-fed for too long may not even know when it is hungry.  
Children need to start trying to do things for themselves, and they won’t if it  
is easier to just ask Mummy (you see this extended dependence on their parents 
 even in adults, who have never moved on from being a little girl or boy).  
>>>
 
Shaking my head, shaking my head.....who writes this stuff???? 
 
Kim Ann 
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