>  The other character then said
> she had a university professor whose six-year-old son who was nursing - I
> think she said something about "he would come in for lunch."
>
> So it did get across some good points but in a weird fetish context.

I saw the show, I also thought the comments put the nursing of pre-schoolers
in the "weird" category.  Having faced the possiblity of having my 5
year-old still nursing when she went to kindergarten, I faced a few family
comments like whether I would have to go to the school at lunch.

My question - would anyone really ever do this (make a special effort to
nurse a pre-schooler  - age 4-or older - during the day)?  I think this is
another huge misperception about nursing pre-schoolers that is perpetuated
by the general public.  I would never have tried to nurse my dd at school,
nor would she have needed to come to me during the day.  Preschoolers don't
nurse for those reasons.  I had a small fear that she would ask to nurse if
she were hurt (either physically or her feelings ) while at school, but that
wasn't a realistic fear either, because she would have known that I *wasn't*
there, and so wouldn't have asked.  If I worked in the school, I think it
*would* have been a problem.  (I say *problem* because once she turned 3 or
4, I conceded to current societal norms and took our nursing relationship
private - I would not nurse her in public in front of strangers).

Janice Reynolds

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