Perhaps we should call "extended " nursing "Developmental Nursing" since it repsects and reflects the normal developmental path of a child. This is distinct from what some have reffered to as "token" BF or "cultural'BF or "nutritional BF" in which children are nursed for some predetermined amount of time to "get all the colostrum" ( they may be getting ABM as well) or "all the immunities" (even tho we know that's not how the system works), or nurse for the amount of time the child would have been on formula, and then wean and " proceed to "real" food (cow's milk, etc.) It is wonderful when Moms nurse even in these ways, considering what society shows/tells them in general, but it does not provide the human child with its expected compliment of all the goodies nursing has to offer for as long as it can offer them, and as long as an indiividual child's development requires them. Judy, again, Brooklyn, NY