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I have not seen any research on this, but I agree with Diane: it
seems to me that later children generally nurse longer than the
firstborn, with the last child often nursing the longest. In fact,
when this *doesn't* happen, it is unusual enough that I notice it and
am suprised.
On a tangential note, I think that birth spacing probably has an
effect on duration of breastfeeding for each child. When children
are spaced farther apart, there is room for a biologically normal
duration of breastfeeding without pressure to wean (intrinsic or
extrinsic) due to a pregnancy / subsequent sibling.
It would be interesting to look at whether the birth-order-based
duration of nursing varies depending on birth spacing. Maybe
firstborns tend to nurse longest under one scenario and lastborns
longest under another scenario.
Margaret
Longmont, CO
>Dia -
>
>I will be *utterly amazed* if there's research showing that
>firstborns are nursed longer. I'm sure they get more "intellectual
>attention," just because they're a novelty and there are fewer
>parental distractions, but in almost all the families I've known -
>through family, friendships, and LLL - breastfeeding is influenced
>more by mainstream cultural voices the first time, but less with
>each subsequent child as we realize that the mainstream culture
>doesn't know what it's talking about. Has that been others'
>experience?
>
>Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY USA
>www.wiessinger.baka.com
>
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