I've a paper on long-term breastfeeding coming out in Breastfeeding Review 
in March. What I found is that being "shocked" and "appalled" by seeing a 
non-infant breastfeed is a necessary part of the process though which women 
end up breastfeeding beyond infancy themselves. It's not a bad thing, it's 
actually a great thing.
I asked our local Child Health unit to put up a poster of a toddler 
breastfeeding in their waiting room. They agreed and whilst some were a bit 
shocked by the poster it's still there and I am sure that it has an impact 
and becomes ho hum over time and repeated exposure.
Karleen Gribble
Australia
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From: "Teresa Pitman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:26 PM
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> But if nobody ever shows pictures of older babies nursing, of various 
> mothers nursing, how will we change the culture? As long as we accept that 
> these things are "unacceptable" it will keep on being that way.
>
> > I think it's okay if people are shocked or put off at first. It's often 
> > how
> we react to something new. But if we keep seeing those kind of images, 
> keep hearing people talk about this, we get used to it. It starts to seem 
> almost... normal.
>
> Teresa Pitman
> Guelph Ontario
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