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"Jennifer Tow, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
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In a message dated 10/17/01 9:07:33 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< During my research, however, I never found any negative issues families
had to deal with while extending breastfeeding.  My question is are
there any family issues mothers have to deal, such as jealousy between
siblings due to the amount of breastfeeding time?  I wounder this
because I learned that toddlers whom breastfeed get more attached to
their mothers rather than objects like blankets or stuffed animals
(Bruce, 2000). >>

Jennifer,
It's nice to see that you are interested in this topic. It is definately
gaining a little more attention as women are beginning to agree (at least in
theory) on the one year minimim concept. It has not been my experience, BTW,
that toddlers usually only nurse at night. Mine always nursed all of the
time.
    I think that it would be wrong to say there are no negative issues that
might come up while "extended" nursing or tandem nursing. I think that there
is the possibility of a negative issue w/ any life circumstance or
experience. For example, when I was tandem nursing my oldest two children, my
4yr son started to have a terible time with the huge quantity of milk he was
able to drink b/c he had lost the ability to digest so much lactose. I had to
modify his nursing pattern so that this would not be a problem for him. Now,
my real response to that would be, so what? All life experiences have things
to work out, to solve, to modify and so on. It isn't really a negative issue;
it's just a part of life. Whatever we see as normal, we cope with. Whatever
we see as aberrant, we have conflict with. BTW, my older child loved it when
I nursed his sister, b/c it meant I would sit down and read to him or play a
game with him. She is the only baby I ever regularly sat down to nurse and it
was so I could give him my time as well. What I am saying is that the lactose
issue is not one I identify with tandem nursing--I identify it as just one
more blip on the mothering path, like any other unrelated to bf. Tandem nu
rsing is just what happened since I had two children who needed to nurse at
the same time in their lives.
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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