Hello everyone,

Funny this subject should come up this week.  
I go to a parenting class with my 1 year old every week.  Word has gotten out 
that I am a lactation consultant.  Last week a mother asked me how to wean 
her little one at a year.  I  asked her if she had started solids.  She said 
yes.  My reply was that she had already started weaning. NOT what she had 
expected as a response but I am pretty sure got her thinking. SHe is a neat lady. She 
was also worried about getting engorged etc.  I told her I had never had 
engorgement with weaning my other two children because I had done it so slowly.   
As you know, it sure is simple if you don't HAVE to  wean by an abritrary time 
or date.  Can you imagine someone asking, "how did you get  your child to 
stop sitting in your lap?"  Why does nursing have to be so different, why can't 
"we" just let it happen the same way they stop getting in your lap. You know, 
they just grow up despite us.   Chris 
Who is trying to savor every second of her last born's infancy and childhood!


In a message dated 5/29/2005 10:39:09 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
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Dictionary 
says to wean is "to teach the sucking child to feed otherwise than from the 
breast." Weaning is often seen as the end of something; however, it is more 
appropriately viewed as a beginning. We misuse the word wean in the context 
of stopping other activities or habits; weaning is not the cessation of 
breastfeeding but rather the addition of new foods.

Sally Myer RN ICCE LLLL
McCook NE USA 

Christine Betzold NP IBCLC MSN

www.theBFclinic.com

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