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>I thought the same thing regarding the 3 yo having longer visits with
>father. A "healthy" father/child relationship would not be restricted
>in that way.
>However, having personal experience with a family situation where the
>father was sexually abusing, I can only imagine that there is some
>reason why mother would not want child to visit with father. I don't
>think breastfeeding would be seen by the courts as a reason to keep
>them apart at that age.
>Laurie Wheeler RN MN IBCLC
>Mississippi USA


No, this would be unlikely in the UK, too, as far as my understanding goes.

There are many reasons why it might not be appropriate for a father 
to have extended contact with his child, but the risk with citing 
'breastfeeding' as a reason why not  is that the court will make it a 
condition that the mother stops breastfeeding in order to 
'facilitate' contact....not sure if this could be enforced in any 
way, of course, but it could lead to intrusive pressurising and, 
possibly, an end to breastfeeding.  With a three year old, the mother 
cannot legitimately argue that the breasteeding *needs* to be done 
frequently in order to keep production going....not like with a young 
baby.  Plenty of happily breastfeeding toddlers keep things going 
very nicely even with very long gaps from time to time :)

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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