Having talked to many many mothers (hundreds, probably close to one thousand) over the years who have nursed children past the age of 3 years, I have encountered 3 mothers who I thought were "weird" and had unhealthy relationships with their children, of which the breastfeeding may have been a part. Some mothers who bottle-feed have unhealthy relationships with their children. Some mothers who breastfeed for a short time have unhealthy relationships with their children. Some mothers who breastfeed for a long time have unhealthy relationships with their children. The goal is not to insist that all mothers nursing older children have normal, healthy relationships with their mothers. The goal is to move from an assumption of perversity to an assumption of normalcy for mothers nursing older children. Innocent until proven guilty. If people are interested, I will post synopses of the three weird cases and you can judge for yourselves. Kathy Dettwyler _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html