From: Katherine Dettwyler # ethnographic studies that report the last-born child nurses longer than earlier children, sometimes much longer. In Mali, when ever an older person admitted to nursing til 6-7-8 years, they always turned out to be their mother's last child. # That's quite interesting piece of information. You don't happen to know about tandem nursing, how usual or rare it is among those 'original' cultures? (Original is not the word I wanted to write, but the right word just escaped my mind. English is not my mother tongue.) Sanna-Mari, mom to Rasmus 28 mo a lay bf supporter Finland, Scandinavia *********************************************** 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