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Jim & Winnie Mading <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:48:00 -0600
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I, too would like to know how you can "force" a child to nurse.  I
would have loved to have this info many years ago when one of mine
quit "cold turkey" at 11 months of age at 5 o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon March 1st!  I still kid her about the timing.  As a
Baha'i, we fast from sunrise to sunset March 2-20.  Since she had
weaned, I was no longer "exempt".
Now I know about nursing strikes.  To this day (and she's over 30)
she still chews on pencil erasers.
I'm sure there are many factors about the Chicago case that aren't
in the media, but since when did that stop them from publishing
those aspects that will get a rise out of the generel public.  I
must say that the broadcast on our local Fox affiliate did make
mention of the fact that anthropologists state that in other
cultures this would not be considered unusual.  In both media and in
the judge's statement it is pointed out that the nursing was not the
only issue.  To me this indicates that some degree of progress is
being made toward shifting public attidutes.  We have a long way to
go, but there are some "nudges" in the right direction.
Winnie Mading IBCLC

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