Aria writes: 

They  take this seemingly disinterested-in-nursing behavior to mean 
weaning.   Does anyone have a clever way to describe to moms that baby is really 
still  interested in nursing and typically wouldn't be weaning this  early?


~ Aria,
 
I don't think this is clever, but I do believe it's true. :) Sometimes  
breaking a "nursing" behavior out of the nursing box and putting it into 
context  with other familiar behavior helps. This kind of distractibility happens 
to  children who really need help focusing on eating at the dinner table 
when  they have a big story to tell, or when they need help to change focus to 
start  or finish homework they need to do. They just need a little "tap on 
the  shoulder" to bring them back to the task at hand, when they are craning 
their  heads ( or minds) to focus on something else. They may need a verbal  
reminder, or they may need their situation changed ( music on or different, 
 TV off, light level changed, etc) to facilitate the shift.  It happens to  
adults children and adults who forget to eat then they are really into  
something. My husband sometimes asks me if I ate anything when we talk midday.  
He knows I can get really busy and just not make it a priority. Most of us 
know  someone whose focus is like this, even if that person wasn't us. I 
might have  been a sibling, a friend, whatever, so the parent with the  
interested-in-other-things child, might see this is not weaning, but a stage or  
individual who just needs reminding or a little encouragement to do what we as 
 the parent of the individual knows they really need. Does that make sense?
 
Peace,
Judy  

Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
Brooklyn, NY,  USA

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