Subj : Re: This Train Just Went Splat!
To   : alt.tv.er
From : MauiJNP
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 14:36:56

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er


>> >> As noted, when allowed to make the decision, MOST babies wean
>> >> somewhere around 2 or 3 ... not 6 or 35.
>> >
>> > All three of my boys weened themselves at about 14 - 16 months of age -
>> > not by my choice, but by theirs. My first heart break of "they're 
>> > growing
>> > up so quickly!".
>> >
>>
>> its the people that don't accept this fact and force the breastfeeding 
>> that
>> bother me.
>
> What fact?  That babies sometimes wean themselves?  Since you can't
> force a child to breastfeed, it should be pretty obvious.
>

you can force them if they have come to accept the fact that breastfeeding 
is their only way to get fed.


>  my cousin's wife insisted that her child needed to be breastfed
>> till she was 4 because she was such a lousy eater and wouldn't be healthy
>> otherwise.  also she said that the child cried and wanted the breast.
>> however, whenever the kid was in the same room as solid foods she would 
>> dive
>> for them and her mom would take it all away and force the child to 
>> breastfed
>> (which she would sometimes fight).
>
> Sounds like your cousin's wife had some weird problems.

yes.

> IF she wasn't
> aware that children over 6-12 months also need solid foods she was
> poorly educated about parenting -- something that has nothing to do
> with breatsfeeding in and of itself.

she believed that the breastmilk was enough though her daughter was 
consistantly very skinny she was getting enough nutriton from the breastmilk 
to not warrant C&Y to do something more.


>(Where was the pediatrician when
> all this was happening?)

Children and youth were involved for sometime and the doctors as well (which 
is when she stopped the breastfeeding and gave the kid some real food).


>ALso, probably the reason the child was such a
> 'lousy eater' is that she wasn't getting ANYTHING to eat.

exactly.


>You can't
> force a child to nurse, so if she refused to let the kid have solids
> AND the child really didn't want to nurse,  the child wouldn't have had
> much of anything to eat.
>
>

exactly, she forced the kid to nurse becuse it was her only source of 
nutrition/food

.