Norma,
Thank you for sharing what your son wrote about breastfeeding.  I think the
impressions of those who have breastfeed into toddlerhood and beyond are so
worth sharing.  I think a book of impressions about breastfeeding from the
perspective of those who have been breastfed would be very enlightening.  And there
are so many of these once long-time breastfed children who are now adults.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

"I can see that Z. is very happy when he is at the breast, and takes
great comfort in it, but I could not describe any of it as being
remotely sexual. For one thing, the happiness that he feels when
attached is clearly a calm, quiet, peaceful "rightness" and uncaringness
similar in my mind to Buddhist' Nirvana, which I can tell you is not at
all the joy of orgasm or even sexual excitement. If anything, it's at
the opposite end of the pleasure spectrum. If you've had the pleasure of
having eaten really well, sipped an exquisite liqueur, all while having
a pleasant conversation with good friends, that's the sort of experience
I think Z. has at the best of times on the breast."



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