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Date: | Fri, 1 Dec 1995 22:35:14 -0800 |
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My kids didn't suck their thumbs (or anything else besides my breasts),
for the most part. However, Andrew did suck his thumb about 10 times
when he was around 4-5 months old. It was so cute. He would
deliberately remove my breast with both hands and stick in his thumb (and
smile broadly at me! :-) ).
Anyways, the more scholarly point of my post is as follows:
Books like The Continuum Concept (and a few others I have read) indicate
that babies in those cultures never spit up milk after nursing. Of
course, both of my kids did so a fair amount, at different times. I was
very much a mother who did frequent, lengthy, unlimited nursings, and
placed no restrictions on my babies.
So my main point -- is it true that in "traditional" cultures, babies do
not spit up milk?
Lois Patterson
Retired LLLL
List-maintainer Parent-L (Extended BF List)
Mother to Anne Marie (5/31/91) and Andrew (12/29/86)
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