I read your article "When children don't wean" on your website. I felt the piece was very biased toward premature weaning and that the reporter really did not do the homework. You may not be aware of the scientific research on the normal range of breastfeeding for humans, which is YEARS, not months. You can find it in Breastfeeding : Biocultural Perspectives by Dettwyler and Macadam. You should also contact the Academy of BF Medicine (a physcian only org) and LLL for their expert opinion of this topic. Breastfeeding toddlers is not wrong or unacceptable, altho it is uncommon. Breastfeeding is recommended to AT LEAST age one by AAP, to 2 years AND BEYOND by World Health Org. Comments made at the AAP meeting when their 97 policy statement came out, were very favorable towards longer bf. From reading some of the comments on the message boards, many folks DO NOT HAVE A CLUE about bf at all, much less bf an older baby or child. Finally, I believe Peggy Robin really wanted to succeed at bf, I believe she started out doing so. I wonder why she feels that bf an older child is done due to some inability to "let go" in the mother. I cannot imagine where she would get such an idea. Since I work in the field of lactation, I have met lots of these moms and children, and this is not the case at all. I find just the opposite to be true - mothers and fathers let go much, much too soon. It is the rare and special mother who goes the extra mile and makes a real committment to her child. Laurie Wheeler, RN, MN, IBCLC Violet Louisiana, s.e. USA ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *********************************************** 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