I know this is coming into this discussion a little late.  I asked my 24 year old son if he remembered nursing.  He had weaned a month before his 4th birthday.  I had been telling him that "someday" he wouldn't need to "nee nee" anymore, and one night after he had "forgotten" to ask to nurse and had just remembered it, he thought for a minute and then said, "Instead of nee nee, could I have a glass of milk?"  The next morning he climbed on my lap and told me that he was big enough now and didn't need "nee nee" anymore.  But he told me now that he does remember lying in bed nursing while I read bedtime stories to him and his older siblings.  He described it as a feeling of "comforting closeness".  When I shared Kika's post with him, his comment was "Let me put it this way.  I don't remember 'sucking on my mommie's boobies'.  I remember breastfeeding!"
    Kris Rogers, RN, IBCLC

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