I was really interested in both Catharine Decker's and Katherine
Dettwyler's posts on the lack of prevalence of tandem nursing in
cultures other than our own. My dh's aboriginal culture certainly
follows this pattern, and the one described by Kathy D... nursling
sleeps with mother, toddler with father, and when the next baby comes
they all shift. (My dh doesn't remember if the father moved into the
mother's hammock before the baby was born or not... he would almost have
to have visited the hammock at least... :-)
As LLLI literature points out, research on weaning during pregnancy also
leaves us with the question of whether the older sib. would have weaned
at the same age otherwise, anyway, and to what extent it was influenced
by the mother's discomfort. But it is still interesting research, and
I'll have to go back to the archives or ask Fiona to post a brief
summary of her findings about weaning during pregnancy.
Jo-Anne

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