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Lori Passwater wrote:
>Hello, my name is Lori Passwater and I am a nursing student with Ivy Tech
>College. We are currently in our Maternal-Child class and discussing
>breastfeeding. I am really interested in the topic of mothers breastfeeding
>their toddlers. As a former breastfeeder of three children, I was always told
>to wean my children off the breast around the age of one because there was
>no added benefit to breastfeeding past that age.
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How silly is that advice? Something is good until age one and then
immediately looses it's goodness? :-) I aways wonder about people who
say such things. Would we say "brocoli is good until 4pm but not good
after that."
> After much research, boy
>was I wrong! In one article on the kellymom.com website it stated that
>breast milk continues to provide substantial amounts of ket nutrients well
>beyond the first year. Also, it discussed the fact that children that wean off
>the breast before the age of two are a higher risk for illness and developing
>allergies. Indoing this research, I was astonished to see that the American
>Academy of Pediatrics only recommends breastfeeding while the WHO
>recommends a minimum of two years. Is it our culture that isn't able to
>accept breastfedding toddlers? There was another article by Summer Minor in
>the Associated Content web site that according to research done by
>Anthropologist Katherine Dettwyler, PhD "the natural age of weaning for
>human children is between 2.5 years and 7 years. I am interested to hear any
>other opinions on this subject.
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>
I say something to new moms... I have known a LOT of breastfeeding moms
in the nearly 13 years I've been helping moms breastfeed. I know a lot
of moms who have said "I wish I would have breastfed my children
longer." I have NEVER meet a mom who said "I wish I would have weaned
earlier." The only type of mom who says "I breastfed for the right
amount of time" were those who nursed about 2 1/2 years or longer.
Joylyn
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>Lori Passwater, SPN
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