> The idea of remembering breastfeeding a reason is interesting, considering I > try to nurse long enough for them to remember. Unfortunately, three does not > seem to have been long enough for my eldest. However she remembers events > that happened during nursing, or while nursing, but still not the nursing itself. > This was interesting to ask them, and also kind of sad. Here I was hoping I > had created a memory they could hold onto and remember and instead, it has > already left their memory by the teen years. SO, in answer to the mom wanting to > wean from worry her child will remember it, maybe it will help her to know > that not all children even remember. I too would like my daughters to remember nursing, though I won't coerce them into continuing (if I could...) to get to an age where they are liable to. But I have my opinions on the age a child has to be in order to remember. Every child will be different of course, *but* I consider that for many a child who nurses once or twice a day into their 4th year, it is like brushing their teeth--something that is always done, and taken for granted. I don't know about the rest of you, but I certainly don't remember brushing my teeth at 4, or even any single episode of having done it before I was probably closer to 8-10. I do remember that we "did it" in general from about 6 yrs on, but at the age of 4, I have no memory if anything to do with brushing my teeth. I remember my mom singing to me to put me to sleep, and reading books with me, and I know she stopped both of those when I was about 6 and was reading by myself. So I can completely see why a child of 4, or 3 would not have any memory of nursing. They are too young to remember something that happened everyday and was "taken for granted". By 6 though, maybe more of them will remember well. Just my humble thoughts on this, based partly on friends whose kids weaned after 5. Fio. ressource person with Allaitement Québec Mama to Sandrine, 3.5 and Nyssa, 9.5 mos, tandem nursing. *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html